SONIC WATER documentation

SONIC WATER
laboratory for water sound images
Sven Meyer & Kim Pörksen

Sonic Water / cymatics laboratory / vernissage documentation / CREATE YOUR OWN WORLD
Olympus OMD Photography Playground 25. April - 24 Mai 2013 / Opernwerkstätten Berlin

sonicwater.org

MUSIC by Kymat - Drop Sound Enlightenment / kymat.de
studies of visible sound and vibrations - drop@sonicwater.org
greatpieceofcake.com & elfenmaschine.de

omd.olympus.de/site/rooms#sven_meyer_kim_poerksen

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Sonic Water is a cymatics installation.
Cymatics is the process of visualizing sound and vibrations through matter, such as for example sand or water.

In the beginning there was sound.
The reason cymatics exerts such a strong fascination is that we are not conditioned to "see sound". Cymatics is like a magic tool that unveils the true substance of things audible, but conventionally invisible.
With it one can recreate the archetypes of different forms of nature.
So sound does have form and cymatics enables you to comprehend that it not only affects but causes form in matter.
In fact, we think sound had a fundamental influence on the formation of the universe itself. But that is another story.
Primarily, we are fascinated by the simplicity of this subject.
All it takes is sound and a very basic medium such as water to create... well, what could be (and in our view is) the coolest sound visualizer.