This video of Humble Bumble bear is a first ever in the world, in which the sound of an animal is made visible in real time. What you are seeing are the energy patterns within sounds.
CymaGlyph - Windwalker's Purr
Earthfire is privileged to be the first wildlife sanctuary in the world to have animal sounds made visible on a new type of scientific instrument, the CymaScope. Unlike instruments such as sonograms and oscillograms which show sounds graphically, the CymaScope gives us a picture of sound by imprinting the animal sounds on the surface of water. Rather like a fingerprint on glass, the voice of the animal imprints the surface of water, leaving an embossed impression that can be photographed with special imaging techniques. The images are not computer-generated but are the actual patterns of energy created by the animals.
So far, the CymaScope has been used to image three of our animal voices: Windwalker, the cougar, Firefly the fox, and Humble Bumble, our special grizzly bear. We plan on having the sounds of all our animals imaged to build a lexicon of animal CymaGlyphs – the name for a CymaScope image – that will be unique in the world.
CymaGlyph - Firefly's Call
John Stuart Reid of Sonic Age America, the company that developed the CymaScope said, “We are entering a new realm of exploration in which the voice patterns of these wonderful creatures will almost certainly lead to a better understanding of their communications and of the creatures themselves.
Thanks and gratitude to John Stuart Reid for his work and contribution. For more information, please visit www.cymascope.com.
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Earthfire Institute’s specially-abled grizzly bear, Humble Bumble, soothes himself by sucking on his paw while humming to himself. In this video you hear the sweet sounds as he reassures himself in a world that is scary to him.
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This was fascinating to both watch and listen to! The sound was similar to the buzzing of bees, and the shapes formed likened to a host of small Torus’s generated from a geometrical pattern. I wasn’t able to access the others… is there a link we can go to for that?
Comment by Lisa — November 28, 2011 @ 7:15 pm
That was so calming and restful. thank you very much for sharing it. I loved the pattern changes as the rooster crowed and the clapping sound too.
Comment by Anne-Marie — November 28, 2011 @ 7:40 pm
Oh my…look out Dr. Emoto from the Messages from Water series. This is amazing. I am so excited about this and as always intrigued to see where this will go for you. Big hugs and loads of love for you all at Earthfire–animals and humans alike.
God bless you all!!
Comment by Tina Seay — November 28, 2011 @ 9:42 pm