Sound visualization

ukrainian designer anna marinenko has drawn a symbolic and visual connection between noise and nature for 'sound form wave'.

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Design and music intersect in many areas, yet one relatively obscure but staggeringly creative area is in the design of graphic notation.

Most of us are used to experiencing sound as an exclusively auditory experience. But scientist and photography enthusiast Linden Gledhill isn't most of us. He sees it. And he's happy to show how. The Philadelphia-based pharmaceutical biochemist has been playing with cymatics for a few years now, and he's come a long way.

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D&AD Awards 2020 Posters Shortlist Winner from Scholz & Friends Berlin Germany.

These are six shots of a demo that we do in my AP Physics class. Yesterday was the last day for seniors, so I pulled it out to play. You're looking at sand on a black metal plate attached to a machine that vibrates the plate up and down at high frequencies. Certain frequencies set up standing wave patterns in the plate. When there is a place on the plate where the waves are the greatest (an antinode) the sand is pushed away and collects in the areas where the plate is hardly moving at all…