CYMATICS: Science Vs. Music - Nigel Stanford
Why Hacker News recommends it
Mentioned as a striking example of sound producing physical effects and a favorite among his videos.
What it is
Nigel Stanford's music video Cymatics, in which real science experiments, such as Chladni plates, ferrofluid and water, visualize the audio.
Recommended by 1 HN commenters across 1 different months, 2019 to 2023.
What Hacker News said
Recommends bigiain · 2023-01 · on “Engineer has built and programmed a terrifying all-robot band”
I quite like this one: [LINK] AUTOMATICA - Robots Vs. Music - Nigel Stanford More industrial robot arm choreography and creative film making, but with some fun mindless destruction too. (And if you like that, another one of his I like is tghis: [this video] )
Cites peter_d_sherman · 2019-07 · on “How to Draw Mushrooms on an Oscilloscope with Sound”
Related: What is Oscilloscope Music and how do you display it on your oscilloscope? [LINK] Jerobeam Fenderson's Oscilloscope Music YouTube Channel [LINK] Intuitively, there seems to be a relationship between Oscilloscope Music and Cymatics: CYMATICS: Science Vs. Music - Nigel Stanford [this video] (Also, there's an implied 2D to 3D mapping from the Oscilloscope experiments...)
Cites motohagiography · 2021-09 · on “The Analog Thing: An open source, educational, low-cost modern analog computer”
Thanks! With the caveat that I profoundly lack depth on both, and am a bit artsy craftsy in my intuitions, I did buy the Maths module precisely because it was an analog computer. The intent was to create some generative music, and seeing if I could use it to create 1/f noise, and exploring self-similarity using a musical ear instead of in code. Still working on it. When you look at what you can do with magnets hooked to a synth with a ferrofluid, e.g. [this video] , the sound and your ear helps to develop an sense for what kinds of waves can be used to yield physical effects. If you can functionally suspend and maipulate a ferrofluid with waves, there are likely analogies to laser pulses and elec