Here's a cool experiment to try the next time you listen to BOC

has anyone tried using BOC's music to create water/powder/sand/salt cymatics?

Check out some cool vids on cymatics here:

here

They obviously have a strong knowledge of these kinds of gyroscopic shapes. I wonder if they have made any tracks that have been structured with the intention of directly manipulating these shapes in a way that a film editor might string together images?

Looks like the official term for what I tried to describe in the last question is called "harmonic interference theory". So, I wonder if there is any proof beyond pure speculation that BOC are employing this technique in their own music? If Aphex twin can hide a detailed image of his face in his music, who knows what those crafty Sandisons are up to! heh.

I wouldn't quite trust anything coming out of David Icke's mouth -

Nutty journalist aside, the fact that these psychedelic shapes do in fact emerge from sound (look it up anywhere else for proof) is something worth pondering over, isn't it?

it is very very interesting stuff

worth remembering that any tune or sense perception alters your (sub)conciousness in some way, anyway

chaldini plates / cymatics are nice little audiovisual metaphors for that i think

chaldini plates as well let u see the vib nodes in a 2d sheet, so its educational about physics n shit too

goo monster

did that shit ever get used in old scifi flicks at all?

physics.

http://skeptic.org.uk/events/skeptics-in-the-pub

maybe there's a meeting near u? :)

nah, i think i'll just steer clear of the loony forums (twoism, and this sub-forum)

  On 7/28/2011 at 6:33 PM, gfxtwin said:

Looks like the official term for what I tried to describe in the last question is called "harmonic interference theory". So, I wonder if there is any proof beyond pure speculation that BOC are employing this technique in their own music? If Aphex twin can hide a detailed image of his face in his music, who knows what those crafty Sandisons are up to! heh.

I doubt it. I only got about 30 seconds into the first video before being disgusted by that crackpot's bullshit theories, but those shapes generally only form from pure, slowly evolving oscillator tones. Pretty much any actual music would be far too busy to form interesting patterns.

  On 7/28/2011 at 2:29 PM, gfxtwin said:

I wonder if they have made any tracks that have been structured with the intention of directly manipulating these shapes in a way that a film editor might string together images?

http://boomkat.com/cds/387475-cyclo-id

(and not a silver-foil hat in sight)

  On 7/28/2011 at 10:59 PM, modey said:

  On 7/28/2011 at 6:33 PM, gfxtwin said:

Looks like the official term for what I tried to describe in the last question is called "harmonic interference theory". So, I wonder if there is any proof beyond pure speculation that BOC are employing this technique in their own music? If Aphex twin can hide a detailed image of his face in his music, who knows what those crafty Sandisons are up to! heh.

I doubt it. I only got about 30 seconds into the first video before being disgusted by that crackpot's bullshit theories, but those shapes generally only form from pure, slowly evolving oscillator tones. Pretty much any actual music would be far too busy to form interesting patterns.

Didn't think much of the shapes int the second link, eh?

That's just the bass guitar hooked up to a VU meter mapped onto polar coordinates then ran through a filter. Any visualisation technique like that would make music look good !

  On 7/29/2011 at 5:03 PM, mcbpete said:

That's just the bass guitar hooked up to a VU meter mapped onto polar coordinates then ran through a filter. Any visualisation technique like that would make music look good !

(secretly wish I knew that)