Exploring Musical Creativity through Interactive Cymatics

McGowan, John; Leplatre, Gregory; McGregor, Iain

Abstract

What does music look like? Representation of sound has taken many forms over time, from sinusoidal wave patterns, through to random algorithm-based visualisations based on the amplitude of an audio signal. 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. This paper presents CymaSense, an interactive sound visualisation application based on Cymatics.

Citation

McGowan, J., Leplatre, G., & McGregor, I. (2017). Exploring Musical Creativity through Interactive Cymatics. In Proceedings of the 31st International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference (HCI 2017). https://doi.org/10.14236/ewic/HCI2017.67

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (Published)
• Conference Name: HCI 2017 - Digital make-believe
• Start Date: Jul 3, 2017
• End Date: Jul 6, 2017
• Acceptance Date: May 15, 2017
• Online Publication Date: Mar 6, 2018
• Publication Date: 2017
• Deposit Date: Jul 12, 2019
• Publicly Available Date: Jul 16, 2019
• Publisher: BCS Learning & Development Ltd.
• Series ISSN: 1477-9358
• Book Title: Proceedings of the 31st International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference (HCI 2017)
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.14236/ewic/HCI2017.67
• Keywords: Cymatics; Autism Spectrum Disorder(ASD); Assistive Technologies; Music Therapy; Interactive Audio-Visual
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/1873675
• Publisher URL: https://ewic.bcs.org/content/ConWebDoc/59194
• Contract Date: Jul 15, 2019