Cymascope Research - Micro Cymatics

All sounds create geometry when they encounter a membrane, leaving a vibrational imprint that can be rendered visible using cymascopic principles.

Microscopic

All sounds create geometry when they encounter a membrane, leaving a vibrational imprint that can be rendered visible using cymascopic principles. Since every living cell is enclosed within a membrane, all the sounds around us imprint our cells with a vibrational pattern of sonic energy. The fact that the wavelengths of everyday sounds far exceeds the size of living cells is not relevant to the phenomenon because every atom or molecule carries all the periodicities of a given sound. Imaging sounds in the microscopic realm may lead to a better understanding of the principles that underpin ultrasound therapy and audible sound therapy.

In this short video a field of microscopic sessile water drops mimics the mass of many types of human cell in the 50 to 100 micron range. The sound used to excite the drops is code 133 of Cyma Technologies AMI 1000 sound therapy device. The absorption of acoustic energy is significantly different between the various sizes of microscopic droplets, and at the point of Faraday Instability only two droplets reach full expression, while other droplets exhibit a much reduced absorption of acoustic energy. This suggests that resonance may play a major role in the ability of cells to absorb sonic frequencies from music or from therapeutic sound devices.
 
Imaged on a Teflon-coated microscope slide, excited by a piezo-electric transducer. 
 

 

A micro cymatics set up in the CymaScope lab:

A micro cymatics set up in the CymaScope lab, in which a single drop of water is excited by a high frequency piezo transducer on the stage of a Nikon Eclipse 50i microscope