Say Hello to the Sandman - John Hyatt

This video was made from vibrating sand on my cymatics machine. The clips were then edited into a sequence. You will notice that this differs from other cymatic videos in that it experiments with non-symmetrical cymatics (or, to be more accurate, with broken symmetrical flow) as a simple generator of complex natural form.

Followiing the edit of images, I played my Mongolian matoqin (a carved horse-headed two-string cello) to the flow of images like a piano player plays along to a silent movie (I had just watched Buster Keaton's 'The General'). The matoqin music was a direct improvised response to the visuals created by resonating sand by electric motor.

The lyrics were also improvised around a theme and sung only once. Then, I couldn't resist adding trumpet.

It is difficult to select a category for this video - it is serious artsciencemusicfun!

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Science & Technology

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