Ukrainian designer Anna Marinenko sees the patterns of sound wave forms in the patterns of nature and movement.
Add me on Facebook - (click LIKE on Facebook to add me) http://www.facebook.com/brusspup The song in the video is my latest song. You can find it on iTunes or Amazon. Song name: Dark Wave https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/dark-wave/id655667181?i=655667187 http://www.amazon.com/Dark-Wave/dp/B00D3J9TMA/ref=sr_1_18?ie=UTF8&qid=1370527738&sr=8-18 All of the equipment for this experiment was provided by PASCO scientific http://www.pasco.com Leave a comment letting me know what your favorite pattern is.
brusspup on YouTube creates these fascinating patterns called Chladni figures by pouring sand on a metal plate connected to a speaker and tone generator. Different frequencies create different patterns of sand on the plate, higher frequencies creating more complex figures.
Via Zimoun’s artist statement:
Using simple and functional components, Zimoun builds architecturally-minded platforms of sound. Exploring mechanical rhythm and flow in prepared systems, his installations incorporate commonplace industrial objects. In an obsessive display of simple and functional materials, these works articulate a tension between the orderly patterns of Modernism and the chaotic forces of life. Carrying an emotional depth, the acoustic hum of natural phenomena in Zimoun’s minimalist constructions effortlessly reverberates.
329 prepared dc-motors, cotton balls, toluene tank Zimoun 2013 _ Permanent installation. DC-motors, cotton balls, filler wires, power supply, lighting system, bench foundation, toluene tank (1951). Dimensions: ⦰ 9.4m x 12.8m height / ⦰ 30.8 x 42 ft. Located in Dottikon, Switzerland. Architecture and consulting by Hannes Zweifel. Assisted from Studio Zimoun by Florian Bürki, Ulf Kallscheidt, Janis Weidner, Marlene Hirtreiter and Annie Rüfenacht. Making-of video by Florian Bürki. Lighting system designed and developped by Davide Groppi. Landscape architecture by Hannes Zweifel and Samuel Interbitzi. Project coordination on-site in Dottikon by Bruno Bachmann. Constructive engeneering by Hans Jörg Baumann and Arthur Hauser. Book: concept, project management and graphics design by Raffinerie AG. Photographies by Zimoun and Janis Weidner / Studio Zimoun. Video by Zimoun. All right reserved © Studio Zimoun. _ «Using simple and functional components, Zimoun builds architecturally-minded platforms of sound. Exploring mechanical rhythm and flow in prepared systems, his installations incorporate commonplace industrial objects. In an obsessive display of simple and functional materials, these works articulate a tension between the orderly patterns of Modernism and the chaotic forces of life. Carrying an emotional depth, the acoustic hum of natural phenomena in Zimoun's minimalist constructions effortlessly reverberates.» bitforms nyc «The sound sculptures and installations of Zimoun are graceful, mechanized works of playful poetry, their structural simplicity opens like an industrial bloom to reveal a complex and intricate series of relationships, an ongoing interplay between the «artificial» and the «organic». It‘s an artistic research of simple and elegant systems to generate and study complex behaviors in sound and motion. Zimoun creates sound pieces from basic components, often using multiples of the same prepared mechanical elements to examine the creation and degeneration of patterns.» Tim Beck «Zimoun creates complex kinetic sound sculptures by arranging industrially produced parts according to seemingly simple rules. Using motors, wires, ventilators, etc.., he creates closed systems that develop their own behavior and rules similarly to artificial creatures. Once running, they are left to themselves and go through an indeterminable process of (de)generation. These quasi autonomous creatures exist in an absolutely synthetic sphere of lifeless matter. However, within the precise, determinist systems creative categorioes suddenly reappear, such as deviation, refusal and transcience out of which complex patterns of behavior evolve.» Node10 _ Compilation video: http://www.vimeo.com/7235817 Next exhibitions: http://www.zimoun.net/events.html Newsletter: http://www.zimoun.net/newsletter.html Video archive on Vimeo: http://www.vimeo.com/zimoun/videos/sort:plays Website: http://www.zimoun.net Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Zimoun/134817185765 bitforms gallery nyc: http://www.bitforms.com Galerie Denise René Paris: http://www.deniserene.com _ http://www.zimoun.net
There are certain amount of vibrational patterns, which are found at different levels: a time of day, an organ, a color, a plant: one sound. The sound image of octaves is a law of nature. In the water sound set by Kymat a water wave surface becomes filmed while being played with music or specific frequencies and tones. So create beautiful sound structures and forms you can find everywhere in nature. www.kymat.de __________________________________________________________________________ Es existieren gewisse Schwingungsmuster, die sich auf verschiedenen Ebenen wieder finden; eine Tageszeit, ein Organ, eine Farbe, eine Pflanze: Ein Ton. Das Klangbild der Oktaven ist ein Naturgesetz. In dem Wasserklang Set von Kymat wird eine Wasserwellenoberfläche abgefilmt, während sie mit Musik oder bestimmten Frequenzen und Tönen bespielt wird. So entstehen wunderschöne Strukturen und Klangformen die man überall in der Natur wiederfinden kann
Sven Meyer & Kim Pörksen created Sonic Water, an art installation exploring cymatics.
Pörksen explains:
“Cymatics is like a magical tool that unveils the substance of things not seen. Sound does have form, and you can see that sound can affect matter and cause form in matter. So maybe in the beginning there was sound, which shaped all matter. Indeed, we think sound has a fundamental influence on the formation of the universe itself.”
Check out the behind the scenes video after the gallery.
SONIC WATER laboratory for water sound images Sven Meyer & Kim Pörksen Sonic Water / cymatics laboratory / vernissage documentation / CREATE YOUR OWN WORLD Olympus OMD Photography Playground 25. April - 24 Mai 2013 / Opernwerkstätten Berlin www.sonicwater.org MUSIC by Kymat - Drop Sound Enlightenment / http://www.kymat.de studies of visible sound and vibrations - drop@sonicwater.org www.greatpieceofcake.com & www.elfenmaschine.de https://omd.olympus.de/site/rooms#sven_meyer_kim_poerksen *** Sonic Water is a cymatics installation. Cymatics is the process of visualizing sound and vibrations through matter, such as for example sand or water. In the beginning there was sound. The reason cymatics exerts such a strong fascination is that we are not conditioned to "see sound". Cymatics is like a magic tool that unveils the true substance of things audible, but conventionally invisible. With it one can recreate the archetypes of different forms of nature. So sound does have form and cymatics enables you to comprehend that it not only affects but causes form in matter. In fact, we think sound had a fundamental influence on the formation of the universe itself. But that is another story. Primarily, we are fascinated by the simplicity of this subject. All it takes is sound and a very basic medium such as water to create... well, what could be (and in our view is) the coolest sound visualizer. How does it work? Our installation at the Photography Playground in Berlin consists of two different areas. A self-running installation and a DIY water-sound-image laboratory where people can experiment with their own cymatics. The setup in both areas is almost identical. The only difference is, that you can use your own camera and create your own soundscapes in the DIY laboratory. The installation is very simple: A sound signal is used to vibrate a speaker. On top of the speaker membrane we have applied a plate and on the plate we have then glued an ordinary bottle cap. The bottle cap (or the whole plate) is filled with water. The water works as a flexible three-dimensional sculpture mass, that translates the sound into pictures. The vibration of the speaker creates one of a kind water-sound-images in response to the respective sound impulse - from chaotic patterns to standing mandala-like waves. The camera films the speaker from above and basically shoots a macro mode live view of the bottle cap action which is projected onto a large screen. When people enter the room they initially just see the big screen cymatics projections. However, once they approach the cube with the speaker they suddenly grasp the setup and have this moment of incredulity and utter bewilderment, that a setup as simple as ours can create such astounding visuals. But this part of our installation is actually just an incentive or an ice breaker. Our actual intention is for the audience to have fun in the laboratory, where they can create and document their own cymatics. In the DIY laboratory you clamp a Olympus OMD camera on the stand, which you get upon entering the exhibition and you can then film or take photos of the water-sound-images you create by means of sound signals from a synthesizer, by using your own voice (via a microphone) or by just playing your favorite song on your smartphone. What does it look like if you hum your favorite tune into the microphone? What does Wagners "Twilight of the Gods" look like in cymatics? The results are images reminiscent of the shape of flowers, the form of a starfish, the patterns of turtleshells, cell division, the golden ratio, the flower of life - all depending on the individual frequency impulse. In the laboratory you become the creator, the big bang and part of the genesis. _____________________________________________________________________________________
Contraptions, kinetic sculptures, Rube Goldberg machines... I love this stuff.
Ronald van der Meijs, has brought together two artificial lungs, smokes hand-rolled cigars, and four recorders (a bass flute, alto, tenor, and a soprano) for a sound contraption he calls Play it one more time for me La Ville Fumée in Eindhoven, in the Netherlands, once the European capital of Cigar production.
"In the old days the city was full of cigar smoke. There were lots of mechanical parts, steam, noise, and even whistles to start the work in the old cigar factories," Meijs says. "So this installation is in many ways a metaphor for the cigar production of Eindhoven."
"Play it one more time for me La Ville Fumée ' A sound-art installation that works on hand made cigars and refers to the history of Eindhoven city, when it was one of the largest cigar-producing cities of Europe. At that time the city was also called ‘La Ville Fumée’. The installation is in many ways about nature versus culture. The technique used here has an almost machine like character, that is controlled and monitored by a natural and traditional item: the hand made cigar. Because each cigar has its own strength by the natural and traditional way of making, they all have their own fire rate. It is precisely this fact that the installation is not working in a predictable way but rather relates to a more or less natural rhythm. The installation has 4 tuners each control a recorder by means of pistons containing the hand-rolled cigars. There are 4 different recorders: a bass flute, alto, tenor, and a soprano. The pistons with the cigars and the recorders are both controlled by 2 abstract lungs. This sound-art burning cigar installation can be seen as a tribute to the former tobacco industry of Eindhoven city and its thousands of workers and craftsmen. The sound composition is a requiem for the former cigar production industry of Eindhoven. Dimensions: 500 x 500 x 120 cm Materials: silk, epoxy, wood, brass, hand made cigars, pvc pipes, recorders Year: 2013 Concept and production: Ronald van der Meijs http://www.ronaldvandermeijs.nl Location: Art Foundation De Fabriek, Eindhoven, Netherlands http://www.defabriekeindhoven.nl/
