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Science is now re-discovering that sound is the basis of form, that sound creates form. The magical realm of sacred geometry and chaos fractal patterns. I began to ponder this idea in relationship to the creation of crop circle patterns. This idea is not new to us as the following descriptions of the work of Chladni and Jenny explain.
Chladni
In 1787, musician and physicist Ernst Chladni published 'Discoveries Concerning the Theory of Music (Entdeckungen über die Theorie des KlangesorIn) in this and other pioneering works, Chladni laid the foundations for that discipline within physics that came to be called "acoustics," the science of sound.
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| Chladni's experiments |
Among Chladni´s successes was finding a way to make visible what sound waves generate. With the help of a violin bow which he drew perpendicularly across the edge of flat plates covered with sand, he produced those patterns and shapes which today go by the term "Chladni figures." Chladni demonstrated once and for all that sound actually does affect physical matter and that it has the quality of creating geometric patterns. WOW
In 1967, the late Hans Jenny, a Swiss doctor, artist, and researcher, published the bilingual book (Kymatik -Wellen und Schwingungen mit ihrer Struktur und Dynamik/ Cymatics) - The Structure and Dynamics of Waves and Vibrations. In this book Jenny, like Chladni two hundred years earlier, showed what happens when one takes various materials like sand, spores, iron filings, water, and viscous substances, and places them on vibrating metal plates and membranes. What then appears are shapes and motion patterns which vary from the nearly perfectly ordered and stationary to those that are turbulently developing, organic, and constantly in motion.
Jenny made use of crystal oscillators and an invention of his own by the name of the tonoscope to set these plates and membranes vibrating. The tonoscope was constructed to make the human voice visible without any electronic apparatus as an intermediate link. This yielded the amazing possibility of being able to see the physical image of the vowel, tone or song a human being directly produced. Not only could one hear a melody - one could see it, too!
Jenny called this new area of research cymatics, which comes from the Greek kyma, wave. Cymatics could be translated as: the study of how vibrations, in the broad sense, generate and influence patterns, shapes and moving processes.
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| Sri Yantra |
In Hans Jenny's tonoscope experiments the sounding of 'OM' produces the circle O which is then filled in with concentric squares and triangles, finally producing (when last traces of sound have died away) the geometric expression of sacred vibration found in many world religions
In his research with the tonoscope, Jenny noticed that when the vowels of the ancient languages of Hebrew and Sanskrit were pronounced, the sand took the shape of the written symbols for these vowels. Experimentation with modern languages general produced chaos. Is it possible that the ancient Hebrews and Indians knew this? Could there be something to the concept of "sacred language?" Would other sacred languages produce similar results i.e. Tibetan, Egyptian or Chinese. These languages have always proposed that they have the capacity to influence and transform physical reality through the recitation or chanting of sacred syllables and mantras.
This to me proves the existence of magic words! Creative phrases that transform the physical reality we see around us. There are legends of Navajo shaman being able to whisper words that created patterns in the sand.
"First there was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God" John 1:1 KJB
Words, thoughts, feelings, are all powerfully creative things. Be clear about your intent. What geometry are you making? Are you contributing to or contaminating your environment? Take charge and responsibility for what sound you create.
Resources
Alexander Lauterwasser - Cymatics