Spain
Sand Origin
Nerja, Costa del Sol
Random Sand Fact
How do you set up an art exhibition showing invisible fields? A gallery in Barcelona, Spain, knows – by using sand!
Have you ever seen sand vibrating into different patterns? What looks like a magic trick is sand making sound visible.
Cymatics it’s called the science of visualizing sound, and sand plays a starring role in it.
Place sand, dust, or other fine grain material on a plate connected to sound waves, and you’ll see kaleidoscopic-like patterns appear. Different tunes create different so-called Chladni patterns.
You can transform music compositions, tunes, and mantras into pieces of visual art. Which tune do you want to see?
