Cymatics: A Study of Wave Phenomena & Vibration

by Hans Jenny

This deluxe hardcover edition documents 14 years of meticulous experiments using audible sound to excite powders, pastes and liquids into life-like, flowing forms. Over 350 stunning photographs reflect patterns found throughout nature, art and architecture, inspiring a deep recognition of the generative power of sound and vibration. Cymatics appears in videos, books and presentations by Gregg Braden, Drunvelo Melchizadek, Len Horowitz and many others.

Genres: Science, Art, Philosophy, Music, Mathematics

295 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1967

Reviews

[Meara · Rating 5 out of 5]

If I had a school, this would be required reading, grades K-8.

[Jeremy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Really cool, however much of the written information is repetitive.

[Kitap Yakıcı · Rating 4 out of 5]

In attempting to leave the cymatic phenomenon intact and unharmed in our intuitive vision, we can derive from it the following spectrum with form at one end and movement at the other. figurate, patterned and textural on the one hand, turbulent, circulating, kinetic and dynamic on the other, and in the centre, acting in either direction, creating and forming everything, the wave field, and thus as causa prima, creating and sustaining the whole, the causa prima creans of all: vibration. (pp. 148, 151)

[W]e cannot say that we have a morphology and a dynamics generated by vibration, or more broadly by periodicity, but that all these exist together in a true unitariness....It is therefore warrantable to speak of a basic or primal phenomenon which exhibits this threefold mode of appearance. It must be stressed that this is an inference made from appearances. The basic threefold or triadic phenomenon is not a preconceived conceptual form which is forced on the nature of things: these things themselves are the basic triadic phenomenon. (pp. 176–7)