Sonic Water is an interactive installation for the Olympus Photography Playground in Berlin that explores sound in visual form.

Watch a lovely video of the installation here.

Sound structures created by Kymat.

Sonic Water is a cymatics installation.

Cymatics is the process of visualizing sound and vibrations through matter, such as for example sand or water.

In the beginning there was sound.

The reason cymatics exerts such a strong fascination is that we are not conditioned to “see sound”. Cymatics is like a magic tool that unveils the true substance of things audible, but conventionally invisible. 

With it one can recreate the archetypes of different forms of nature. 

So sound does have form and cymatics enables you to comprehend that it not only affects but causes form in matter. 

In fact, we think sound had a fundamental influence on the formation of the universe itself. But that is another story.