Video: "Singing Chladni". Musical Physics by Meara O'Reilly
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Meara O'Reilly writes musical compositions specifically to create patterns from salt. Sounds weird and pretty pointless, right? In fact, there is nothing strange here, and this phrase just illustrates what can happen if the laws of physics known to all are approached with a share of creativity.
At the beginning of the 19th century, the German physicist Ernst Chladni conducted an interesting experiment. He poured sand on the glass plate and began to drag his bow along the edge of the plate. The vibration caused the sand to move, and after a while the glass was covered with a pattern of sandy lines. These figures, named after the discoverer, formed the basis of Meara O'Reilly's work. Since it is not the 19th, but the 21st century in the yard, then, of course, it was not without the use of technology: instead of a bow, a sound generator is used, connected with the help of electronics to a plate. What is the role of Meara O'Reilly, you ask? The fact is that she writes musical compositions, on which it depends on what patterns the salt scattered on the surface of the plate forms.
The following video fragment allows you to get a clearer idea of such an unusual kind of creativity, which Meara O'Reilly calls "Chladni singing".
Meara O'Reilly is a sound designer, musical instrument maker, and singer who combines creativity with science in her musical experiments. The author currently lives in Northern California.
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