The secret world of sound has been invisible throughout history, until now.
I saw sound when I attended the Cymatherapy Conference last November in Atlanta. It was an amazing and surprisingly moving experience to hear a piece of music and see the beautiful geometric forms each note created. It brought tears to my eyes.
Now visitors to the Explora! Museum in Albuquerque will be able to see sound, from their own voice patterns to bird song, whale song, wild animals and also music. This special magic is available with the exciting new scientific instrument, CymaScope, unveiled January 19, 2007 at the “Shapes of Sounds” exhibit. For the first time, everybody, not just scientists and specialized researchers, can see bird song, whale song, music, and speech. Each sound creates its own harmonic, geometric pattern. Just as great advances in medical science were made with the microscope, and enormous strides in understanding the cosmos were made with the telescope, the CymaScope now allows for incredible advances in the connective links of brain and sound. The brain is wired to perceive sound, but when you can also see the visual result of those sounds, the brain is most effective in making new discoveries.
John S. Reid, who lives in the Lake District of England, is the inventor and developer of the CymaScope, a 21st century electro-acoustics device, inspired by the work of Ernst Chladni, Margaret Watts-Hughes and Hans Jenny. John has taken their work to a new level and is researching how sound creates form through vocal sound, natural sound, music, sacred language and how sound is influenced by sacred space. John has done research on Egyptian Sonics at the Great Pyramid of Giza and has published a booklet of his findings.
If you are in Albuquerque and you want to see what your voice looks like, go to the Explora!
By the way, the image at the top of this article is the cymaglyph of a robin's song.
Vera Gadman
www.soundhealingresource.com
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