Sound Art Shows You What Musical Notes Actually Look Like

wildcat2030:

The technical term is cymatics (from the Greek word for “wave”), and it’s been an active field of study—particularly in acoustics—since at least the time of Galileo. In 1680, Robert Hooke first saw these so-called “nodal patterns” when he ran a bow along glass plates to induce vibrations. But it was Ernst Chladni who perfected the technique in 1787, which is why the patterns are known as “Chladni figures.”

Sound Art Shows You What Musical Notes Actually Look Like

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