“In the summer of 1970, London’s ICA staged Vibrating World, a comprehensive exhibition of Hans Jenny’s ‘cymatic’ experiments. The pattern-forming effects of vibration had been previously explored by Ernst Chladni, Margaret Watts-Hughes, Joseph Goold and Mary Désirée Waller…”
“However, Hans Jenny’s lectures and articles, his coining of the word ‘cymatics’ and his two-volume study helped popularise the notion of resonance as a formative power. Jenny did not provide any detailed physical explanations, and studied the varied cymatic phenomena from a Goethian standpoint, which allowed it to span multiple disciplines, potentially generating interest with biologists, physiologists, physicists, artists, geologists, astrophysicists and musicians – a synthesis of arts and sciences which appealed to New Age thinkers. This documentary shows cymatics in action.”
