Water in suspended animation - kinetic sculpture

[stiffyman]

where can i find an oscillating low frequency sound?

[irenelealortiz]

so you are trying to do an oscilloscope with water, a speaker and strobe light... right?? awesome!!!!

[xinaesthetic]

Something like that... although I don't think it would make a good general purpose oscilloscope, to say the least. It's a lot of fun to see droplets of water hanging in the air, though.

Try it :-)

[umahuma4]

I think i just had an internal nose bleed, or a seizure,one of the two

[oid123]

Hmm, most interesting. I wonder how small this could be built. I'm guessing that higher frequencies would be a must.

Once I finish building my high frequency strobe (more like put it in an appropriate container) I think I'll try this.

[xinaesthetic]

Hmmm... getting the water to oscillate at higher frequencies might be a bit of a challenge. Let me know how you get on.

I think I saw something in 'related videos' at some point, a similar thing at MIT that looked quite small, fwiw...

[kettumikka]

I appreciate your work!

[xinaesthetic]

hmmm, the more I think about it, the more I think my comment about strobes was pretty innapropriate, especially given that I was already something of a fan of Edgertons early motion studies and so on. Who'd have thought anyone would actually read that description? You live and learn, eh. ;)

[pxl8r]

I dont understand how strobe light is more associated with raves than photography? It was used as a flash decades before the first raves.

Interesting artistic experiment in resonance or just frequency waves... Here is the criticism bit: ...but at least through video it fails to make an impression, esthetic touch or poetic effect that a piece of art would in my opinion make. It seems to be a good start for a means to make one, though. Now seems like lofi mechanics experiment of sorts.

[xinaesthetic]

Wow, a comment! And a thoughtful one at that! Thanks.

Actually, I first wrote the description I put here as an explanation to someone from a photography forum; so I was trying to make the distinction that it was not the kind of strobe that synchs with a camera with precise settings etc.

Criticism gratefully received; this isn't my real real work, so to speak, but a phenomena I felt worth presenting - and I do call it a 'sketch' in the subtitles at the beginning for a reason.