What does the word “love” look like? What does the sound of birds chirping look like? How about the sound of running water? Believe it or not, but every single sound has an actual physical structure to it that can be made visible very easily. The ancients knew this, which is why the revered chanting and mantras so highly. We will look at that last point more deeply in a little bit. But first, let’s look at the science of visible sound.
The science of visible sound
Cymatics is the scientific study of visible sound waves. Contrary to our experience of sound as a audible frequency, all sound literally has a geometric formation to it. You can easily see the visible geometrical vibrations of any given sound by placing sand or coated particles on to a metal plate called a tonoscope. When you put these coated particles on to this metal plate and then play a frequency into the metal plate, the particles arrange themselves according to the geometric structure of that sound.
