If Sound Were Seen

Cymatics reveals that sound, while felt, can also be seen in beauty. The field historically relies on the movement of sand on metal plates over vibrating speakers. The oscillations of sound waves become visible and changing — revealing artful designs from music.

Cymatics proves that even though one cannot see sound, the felt reality can be translated in the 3D physical plane. A scientist named Emoto performed a similar experiment on the effect words and thoughts have on the structure of water. When he spoke positive words or phrases to water and froze it: the water solidified into beautiful geometric shapes. Conversely, when the scientist spoke negative words or phrases to the water and froze it: the ice structures were chaotic at best and disturbing at worst.

Emoto’s water experiment and the study of cymatics are two examples of many that prove the transfer of the unseen to the physical. It justifies the existence and importance of an unseen reality. I have heard people say that music is the mother of science, or that music is the most powerful art form because it relies solely on unseen vibrations. Having a conception of music as being a major root of science requires a certain amount of understanding vibration, mathematics and frequency.

Music is a tool to access higher realms, to access or communicate our connection to the unseen. It is so elusive in so many ways for musicians — seldom do we truly understand the way music affects other people. However, we can see it sometimes on the faces of audience members; we can hear it in the words of listeners after they hear the music; we can understand it by the connection with others we collaborate with. Still, it’s something almost unspoken; understood, however, beyond tactile comprehension.

The plane beyond the physical was once called the “ether.” You can still see the remnants of this concept in a chemical compound or a literary term. However, it used to be an actual class of “matter” that gradually faded into historical study. Social theorists have questioned this whole “forward momentum” of modernity… how we think as we go into the future, we are progressing. What if we once had much more information on the unseen realm than we do today?

I am currently reading Nikola Tesla’s autobiography and finding that many of his ideas are very similar to Dr. Joe Dispenza’s study of the quantum realm. Now, frequency and vibration have become a very hot topic, but there was surely an awareness of the power on both to affect human behavior as the dominant tuning frequency changed from 432hz to 440hz in the 1930s. 432hz has been thought to help anxiety.. If you look at the difference between the cymatics of 440hz and 432hz, 432hz has a much more cohesive and beautiful design than 440hz. On my my website, you can find some songs I’ve written in an alternate frequency I really like: 528hz, which is said to be present in chlorophyll and DNA. It is deemed as a “love” frequency.

A lot of the studies on frequency/vibration have yet to be released. It’s a sort of ancestral wisdom that I believe most people know intuitively and that has been present in many of the wonders of the world. I know when I visited the Mayan pyramids in Mexico, you could clap and hear its echo return from a mile away. The geometric precision of the pyramids and the general structure of the ruins was otherworldly; like they had a perfected knowledge of mathematics. I wondered how they had this information; was it through the study of frequency and vibration?

In Hinduism, some gurus will say that God is a sound. In Judeo-Christianity, it all started with “the word.” I believe sound carries a power that can alter our DNA. Ultra-sounds can detect babies in the womb and it uses frequency. We are also electric beings — we are made up of electrons, protons and neutrons that are constantly vibrating and moving. Our nervous systems look like electrical currents or roots of a tree. The biofield (the aura) can be detected by certain cameras. The “cloud” is basically a synthetic version of our biofields. Think about how much AI can do. I believe if we are able to harness our electrical power as human beings through energy centers via energetic healing and connection to Higher Power, we can achieve even more than AI.

I am a Christian and I enjoy science a lot. I’ve been very deeply interested in frequency/vibration as it relates to music. The highly sensitive person understands that emotions and inner realities can be felt by others. Even if someone is not necessarily sensitive, they can pick up on the shift that happens through the change of sound. Listening to a large truck outside on trash day is much different than listening to a harp playing various arpeggios. However, we are constantly surrounded by sound and vibration.

Sound being seen through cymatics reveals the innate design and beauty that exists in music and harmony. There is an intelligence that exists that seems to orchestrate so many aspects of this life and music is one of the most beautiful examples that there is a divine composer.

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Image Credit: Sandra Lee (first photo) ; Subaqueous Music (second photo)