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

McGowan, John; Leplâtre, Grégory; McGregor, Iain

Abstract

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.

Citation

McGowan, J., Leplâtre, G., & McGregor, I. (2017, June). CymaSense: a real-time 3D cymatics-based sound visualisation tool. Presented at 2017 ACM Conference Companion Publication on Designing Interactive Systems - DIS '17 Companion, Edinburgh

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (published)
• Conference Name: 2017 ACM Conference Companion Publication on Designing Interactive Systems - DIS '17 Companion
• Start Date: Jun 10, 2017
• End Date: Jun 14, 2017
• Acceptance Date: Apr 1, 2017
• Online Publication Date: Jun 10, 2017
• Publication Date: Jun 10, 2017
• Deposit Date: Oct 18, 2017
• Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• Pages: 270-274
• Book Title: DIS '17 Companion Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference Companion Publication on Designing Interactive Systems
• ISBN: 9781450349918
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3064857.3079159
• Keywords: Autism Spectrum Condition (ASC); Assistive Technologies; Music Therapy; Interactive Audio-Visual; Cymatics.
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/998878