Monday, February 3, 2014

Cymatics and Synesthesia

Learning about cymatics is very interesting since I had never quite heard about it before. I have, however, heard of people mixing corn starch and water and placing it on top of a speaker creates a flubber-like substance that appears to "dance".  Making sound visual is something that I never even would've thought to be possible. Watching some of the tutorials on the TED talk about how different patterns form on the metal plate based off of different frequencies that are created by a machine. The more intense the frequency, the more elaborate the patterns became.

In one of the TED Talks Daniel Tammet stated,"Different kinds of perceiving create different kinds of knowing and understanding." I found this so intriguing that no one mind might see something the same as I do or you do. The way in which he interprets numbers in fascinating and they are in all different colors and shapes. His synesthesia has given him an amazing ability to track how numbers and words have colors, shapes and different corresponding emotions. He also mentions a few famous people in history who had synesthesia which I had never known before.

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