SeeSound articles

Sound, cymatics and healing tones

Short reads on how sound becomes shape, and the people who first saw it.

01 · Sound made visible

What is cymatics?

Why sand, water and salt draw sharp patterns when a sound plays, and what those patterns actually show.

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02 · The man who drew sound

Chladni and his plates

A law student turned physicist, a violin bow and a sheet of brass: how Ernst Chladni made sound visible in the 1780s.

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03 · Ut, re, mi and the monk Guido

Where Solfège comes from

Do, re, mi was invented by an Italian monk a thousand years ago to teach singers faster. Here is the real story, and what it has to do with "Solfeggio frequencies".

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