Visualizing the invisible- Synesthesia and Cymatics
I had a friend who had Synesthesia. I was skeptical at best but I had the opportunity to speak with here about it and I believed it was a very interesting way to understand the world. The most interesting things to me was that it wasn't even as grand a thing to her as I'm making it with the verbiage "way to understand the world." seeing numbers and names in colors was simply what the world was for her. If I remember correctly she told me my name came off kind of blue to me but a shade she couldn't describe. Not that I was particularly special or anything but it is so natural to her that it's about as easy to describe to me as it is for anyone to describe what color is to a blind person, or to try to draw what something sounds like. However, that second one we seem to be attempting to do more and more with something called Cymatics.
When I saw the video on cymatics, it took me a while to understand what it was until they showed the board with the particles on them that move the particles in different frequencies. It turns out this was also a practice I was aware of but I had never learned the name of it. I first saw a demonstration of Cymatics in this video: CYMATICS: Science Vs. Music - Nigel Stanford. It's a fantastic music video and showed me an incredible way to visualize music in a different way. It was a great idea to begin that video with the phrase "all of the experiments are real," because there were many times I looked at it and I thought to myself, "there's If you think about it, the nature of special effects, VFX, and even movie adaptations is to bring life to something that doesn't have a real form. To be able to integrate cymatics into the visual arts brings a whole other level of artistic possibilities possible, and I can't wait to see how it can be integrated into storytelling!
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