Faraday Waves

Faraday Waves is a short audio-visual work written as a companion piece for a concert-hall performance of Poème électronique by Varese. Faraday discovered that a liquid undergoing vertical vibration, whose frequency exceeds a certain value, becomes unstable to surface waves. Also known as Faraday Instability, they form non-linear standing waves that appear on liquids enclosed by a vibrating vessel. In ordinary Newtonian fluids (those that do not exhibit shear thickening or shear thinning) the wave patterns include ones with 1-fold symmetry (stripes), 2-fold symmetry (squares), 3-fold symmetry (hexagons) as well as higher orders of symmetry. The effect was first reported by Michael Faraday in 1831, and forms one of many experiments in visualizing vibration and sound – a means of converting analogue data from one form to another. Thanks to an award from Santander, Rob was able to visit his colleague Professor Stephen Morris at the Physics Department, University of Toronto in May 2015. Part of Stephen’s research regards ‘shaking things’ and sound is often used as a form of stimuli. The visualization, created by Sam Jury, uses video documentation of the classic physics experiment invented by Faraday with the analogy of sound to image data transfer used as the starting point for the creation of the music. Faraday Waves uses speech rhythms found in the e.e. cummings poem I Carry Your Heart With Me. Placed within the resonance of a bell; it symbolizes the creation and birth of a new life.

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Rob Godman

Sam Jury

Professor Stephen Morris

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Publication date: July 2016

Publication date (Print): July 2016

Pages: 1-2

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[0002]University of Toronto

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/HCI2016.55

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Conference name: Proceedings of the 30th International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference

Conference acronym: HCI

Conference number: 30

Conference location: Bournemouth University, Poole, UK

Conference date: 11 - 15 July 2016

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Fusion

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REFERENCES

Book: e.e. cummings 1958 selected poems 1923-1958 Faber and Faber London
Book: H Jenny 2001 Cymatics MACROMedia Publishing Newmarket, USA
Book: A Lauterwasser 2006 Water Sound Images MACROMedia Publishing Newmarket, USA
Book: V Meyers 2014 Shape of Sound Artifice London
Book: C Roads 1996 The Computer Music Tutorial MIT Press Cambridge USA
Internet source: S. Morris 2012 Faraday waves. http://www.physics.utoronto.ca/nonlinear/faraday.html retrieved 07 12 2015

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[1] Book: e.e. cummings 1958 selected poems 1923-1958 Faber and Faber London

[2] Book: H Jenny 2001 Cymatics MACROMedia Publishing Newmarket, USA

[3] Book: A Lauterwasser 2006 Water Sound Images MACROMedia Publishing Newmarket, USA

[4] Book: V Meyers 2014 Shape of Sound Artifice London

[5] Book: C Roads 1996 The Computer Music Tutorial MIT Press Cambridge USA

[6] Internet source: S. Morris 2012 Faraday waves. http://www.physics.utoronto.ca/nonlinear/faraday.html retrieved 07 12 2015

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