Cymatics + Audio into Visual

During a lecture, Milo brought up cymatics. This is a topic I had heard of before but hadn’t fully looked in to. After my research so far, I’ve found cymatics to be of great interest and have am now looking in to creating visuals from audio in a more broad sense.

TouchDesigner is a software that was brought to my attention during a create computing talk at LCC, since then I have been getting hands on trying to learn my way of around its many systems, using YouTube as a guide where necessary. I intend to use TouchDesigner to add a visual element to my artist practice in the future.

Chladni plates have been of most interest in the topic of cymatics. Some of the collaborators at nasterisk and I have decided to figure out a way to connect cymatics and fashion through the use of such plates. We plan to have a synthesiser that customers will use to alter powder dye on a plate. The resonant frequencies will create a unique design for each person ultimately adding to the user experience.