CymaSense: a real-time 3D cymatics-based sound visualisation tool

Research Output

What does music look like? Representation of music has taken many forms over time, from musical notation [16], through to random algorithm-based visualisations based on the amplitude of an audio signal [19]. One aspect of music visualisation that has not been widely explored is that of Cymatics. Cymatics are physical impressions of music created in mediums such as water. Current Cymatic visualisations are restricted to 2D imaging, whilst 3D visualisations of music are generally based on arbitrary mapping of audio-visual attributes. This paper looks at the design of CymaSense, an interactive tool based on Cymatics.

Date:

10 June 2017
Publication Status:

Published
Publisher

ACM Press
DOI:

10.1145/3064857.3079159
Library of Congress:

QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
Dewey Decimal Classification:

006 Special Computer Methods
Funders:

Edinburgh Napier Funded

http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/output/998878 <p>McGowan, J., Leplâtre, G., & McGregor, I. (2017). CymaSense: a real-time 3D cymatics-based sound visualisation tool. In <i>DIS '17 Companion Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference Companion Publication on Designing Interactive Systems</i> (270-274). https://doi.org/10.1145/3064857.3079159</p>

Citation

McGowan, J., Leplâtre, G., & McGregor, I. (2017). CymaSense: a real-time 3D cymatics-based sound visualisation tool. In DIS '17 Companion Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference Companion Publication on Designing Interactive Systems (270-274). https://doi.org/10.1145/3064857.3079159