Sound Made Visible

18/11/2025

The Next Generation CymaScope App is out now!

• Unprecedented frequency range: Visualize sounds from 27 Hz to 2217 Hz, extending far beyond the human vocal range, a new CymaScope standard.
• Microphone activation mode: Watch dynamic CymaScope imagery emerge in real time as you sing, or play pre-recorded music, or any live music.
• Easy play twin keyboard: Compose or play a melody and see it made visible. Options are selectable for named notes, or for a clean keyboard.
• Vocal pitch recognition: Instantly see the musical note you’re singing, perfect for ear training, enabling you to name the notes you are singing.
• 432 Hz & 440 Hz tuning: Whether your preferred concert pitch is 432 Hz or 440 Hz, both tuning options are on board and easily selectable.
• Video + image capture: Record and save CymaScope videos, and still shots of any moment, and store in your device’s photo library.
• Video demo gallery: Watch a demo of the app’s features and explore mesmerizing CymaScope Pro videos by James Stuart Reid.
• Mirror the CymaScope app to a large computer monitor or video projector to share the imagery with a group in real time.

The Next Generation CymaScope™ App is Here!In 2015 the first generation CymaScope App broke new ground, enabling music to be visualized in shimmering cymatic...

18/11/2025

Harmony becomes cacophony when healthy cells become cancerous

John Stuart Reid, technical director of CymaScope(.)com, and Professor Ji, of Rutgers University, have published a study in the Water Journal toward creating an AI-based system to improve cancer surgery that could also lead to a new method of early cancer detection.

The discovery that cells create sound was made by Professor James Gimzewski of UCLA, in 2002. Using an Atomic Force Microscope he and his colleague, Dr. Andrew Pelling, were able to listen to the sounds of cells for the first time. Surprisingly, they found that the sounds lie in the audible range; in other words, if our ears were sensitive enough we would be able to hear the sounds of our own cells. (Perhaps it is fortunate that we cannot!) Professor Gimzewski named their new approach to cell biology, “sonocytology,” combining “sono” (sound) with ”cytology’” (the study of cells). But Atomic Force Microscopy is technically challenging, requiring an acoustically isolated room and many other demanding precautions, rendering it less attractive than other, more recently explored methods of listening in to cell sounds. In the new study the sounds from cells were derived by Raman Spectroscopy, in which a laser probe strikes not one cell but typically thousands, the light being modulated by the movements of a myriad of cell membranes. The fact that many cells influence the laser beam means that the Raman system provides an accessible method of cell sound detection. As the laser light reflects from the tissue sample it carries with it tiny fluctuations that are collected by an electronic detector and are simultaneously made audible by a computer, therefore rendering the cell sounds audible as a diagnostic tool.

18/11/2025

"Patterns in nature are the essence of wisdom." ~ Dennis Prager

17/11/2025

"Secrets of Cymatics" is an inspirational presentation by acoustic-physics researcher, John Stuart Reid, filmed at the Water Conference, Sofia, Bulgaria, October 2016, on the physics, chemistry and biology of water.

In this short video the sheer beauty of vowel sounds have been made visible on the CymaScope, demonstrating that when we speak or sing we bathe all those aro...

16/11/2025

Hematology is the branch of medicine concerned with the study of the cause, prognosis, treatment, and prevention of diseases related to blood. It involves treating diseases that affect the production of blood and its components, such as blood cells, hemoglobin, blood proteins, bone marrow, platelets, blood vessels, spleen, and the mechanism of coagulation.

The CymaScope Pro instrument can be used to study whole human blood, and blood plasma. The photo shown here is of Professor Sungchul Ji injecting whole human blood into the CymaScope’s fused quartz cuvette, prior to study. Blood oxygenation levels are affected by the presence of heart-based sonic frequencies and by externally applied sonic frequencies, and as oxygen powers all crucial bodily systems cymascopic studies involving human blood carry important medical potential.

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16/11/2025

Enter Into The World Of Cymatics!

Experience the fundamentals of cymatics with our range of CymaPlate products, which come with full instructions and all you need to create beautiful cymatic patterns...

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16/11/2025

A short excerpt from an interview with John Stuart Reid in which he talks about the holographic properties of water. Filmed at the 2016 Water Conference, Sofia, Bulgaria.

A short excerpt from an interview with John Stuart Reid in which he talks about the holographic properties of water. Filmed at the 2016 Water Conference, Sof...

15/11/2025

Cymatics is the science of sound made visible and is based on the physics principle that when sound encounters a membrane, such as the surface of water or the membranes that surround our cells, a pattern of energy is automatically imprinted on the membrane. The pattern consists of antinodes–regions of high pressure–and nodes–regions of low pressure. In this process the periodic vibrations in the sound are transformed to become periodic ripples on the membrane’s surface, creating beautiful (though often invisible) geometric patterns that are analogs, or models, of the sound. Cymatics is therefore a natural process that is continually occurring inside our bodies, on the surface of everyday objects, and even at astronomical scales.

15/11/2025

A little bit of cymatic fun in which we played Strauss' Blue Danube into an electromechanical Chladni Plate in the CymaScope laboratory. A clip from this video was first broadcast in the Canadian CBC documentary, "Sonic Magic: The Wonder and Science of Sound" in November 2015, hosted by David Suzuki. With special thanks to Stuart Mitchell for orchestrating and playing the Blue Danube excerpt.

A little bit of cymatic fun in which we played Strauss' Blue Danube into an electromechanical Chladni Plate in the CymaScope laboratory. A clip from this vid...

14/11/2025

"Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all." - Aristotle

13/11/2025

The Halo Handpan made visible on the CymaScope Pro. Made by Pantheon Steel, the Halo Handpan shares a similar form to the Balanese Hang Drum, two metal hemispheres joined, and has similar tuning characteristics. However, the Halo has a very different character to the Hang. The Halo has a richer timbre with more sustain, each note resonating in sympathy with the others, creating a full, captivating range of tones.

The Halo Handpan made visible on the CymaScope Pro. Made by Pantheon Steel, the Halo Handpan shares a similar form to the Balanese Hang Drum, two metal hemis...

13/11/2025

he shape of life, we believe, is sound.

Around 3.5 billion years ago, following formation of the oceans, the first primitive life forms are believed to have evolved in the primordial oceans. Recent research suggests that simple amino acids were brought to earth by comets, effectively ‘seeding’ the oceans with organic compounds, helping to enrich the primordial ‘soup’ from which life sprang. Is there a genuine connection to be investigated, the tantalizing possibility that sound was involved as an organizing force for minerals and for organic compounds brought to the early earth by comets?