Comments on: Seeking Connections Between Carpentry and Music

By: playing a lot of chess

playing a lot of chess — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 12:43:51 +0000

Would enjoy hearing articulated why

By: Winston

Winston — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:21:38 +0000

For whatever reason I feel that this is my favorite post on this website in quite some time.

By: playing a lot of chess

playing a lot of chess — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:12:23 +0000

To be more specific about the cymatics thing: I guess I’m just not sure how I would practically set about creating a cymatic representation of a sound. I want to have something I can put together with wood that will bridge these gaps for me.

Probably should start looking at things like golden ratios or proportions or whatever that thing I’m thinking of is… Feel like Wagner must have covered this - alchemy in opera, that sort of thing. I know theres a bridge point but I’ve not yet discovered the cipher.

By: playing a lot of chess

playing a lot of chess — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:07:27 +0000

Cymatics are cool, yeah, but its not quite the connection I’m seeking. However, one of the associate conductors here wants to learn how to juggle, so I’m gonna try to form this into words with him. Will continue to share my findings.

Definitely getting deep into Renaissance/Da Vinci territory here, I think. Need to find some good illustrated materials to study…

By: RmSquid

RmSquid — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:14:15 +0000

Another thought while i’m here…
Cymatic images are only slices of sound waves - a cross-section of an object which progresses through time.

To represent this 3D+time object in a fixed-in-time sculpture, one of the spacial dimensions may need to be lost.

also:
Nada Brahma - “The World Is A Sound”

By: Ian

Ian — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:07:04 +0000

Divisions, even if imaginary or left entirely to chance in their original creation, will always form patterns-that-surprise if the divisions are kept consistent once they’re created. And if they’re played around with long enough.

I find that consistency of both measurement and endurance are so much more important than whatever the original divisions happened to be.

Divine mathematics, the AI, and story systems.

By: RmSquid

RmSquid — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:45:13 +0000

Have you head that quote about how architecture is frozen music?
Check out ” cymatics ” .

cymatics images

and

cymatic video

Demonstrating that sound is a physical thing - pure tones in the Pythagorean scale produce shapes with perfect geometry.
Harmonies will literally produce beautiful harmonious “objects” of sound.

I think there are examples online of this effect in three dimensions as well.

I reckon it’s possible that a particular word or song could be physically represented accurately in another material.
Could you mould a name from a clay?