See the sound

how does music look like? It is not a silly question because, with the revolutionary new scientific tool, for the first time, people create beautiful images recorded through piano notes.

Accordingly, the CymaScope device uses a high-definition camera to monitor the effects of special vibrations from a single sound in pure water environment. Due to the surface tension of the water, the sounds of special sounds will create a unique imprint in the water that looks like a snowflake; 2 different sounds represented by 2 images are not the same. New Zealand artist Shannon Novak recorded piano notes, enlarging their size into 12 musical paintings. He told the Daily Mail newspaper: "I am always fascinated with describing sound through color and geometry." For Novak, cymatic technology is one of the unique representation methods; Link to understand the relationship between sound, color and geometric format.

CymaScope began to develop in 2002. The original prototypes were thin, round PVC films, then the type of tool with rubber latex used before a breakthrough was shown with pure water. Write on the website Cymascope.com, co-author John Stuart Reid and Erik Larson explain: 'If our eyes see music, we will not see the sound wave as people often think. But those are beautiful bubbles by three-dimensional interference, shimmering kaleidoscope patterns on their surface. '

With the development of CymaScope, inventors have realized a wide range of potential applications from astrophysics to zoology. One of the most interesting things for 'watching sound' involves the dolphin language decoding project. Accordingly, CymaScope can effectively translate the sound of dolphins into images. Each image represents a word that dolphins use for a certain object. Once the dolphin audio vocabulary is available through images, researchers hope to be able to organize rudimentary conversations using computers that convert human words into dolphin language. and vice versa.

Jack Kassewitz - a dolphin researcher in Miami (USA) - used CymaScope to record the sounds of dolphins that reflect the range of objects, including a plastic cube, a toy duck and a flowerpot. He found that dolphins can redefine objects with an 86% accuracy rate when they show them. The experiment continued with dolphins raised elsewhere and they also identified successful subjects with similar proportions. This shows that dolphins have a universal language.