Seeing Sound - Not a Case of Synesthesia!
In the late 1800's Ernst Chladni (/(ˈklɑːdnɪ) /) a German physicist and musician, made it possible to SEE sound, translating sound frequencies into patterns using sand and a vibratory plate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Chladni The generated patterns formed in and between the empty spaces into both the familiar and abstract. https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/chladni-figures-1787/ Since then, people have replicated Chladni's experiments, infusing creativity and various materials into the process. From simple drum-type surfaces made from oatmeal containers to finely-tuned frequency generators and Tibetan singing bowls to substituting cultured heart cells for sand and salt that would sort to nodes and anti-nodes . We can learn a lot from how our own brains work by looking at the different ways non -traditional cognition works. One example is synesthesia , where sensory inputs get re-routed and/or amplified in an es...