Discover "the power of sound" with music wizard, Kenichi Kanazawa
Kenichi Kanazawa is an artist who makes stunning displays with sound. Or at least that’s what people say. Look upon a clip of Kanazawa at work and know, without a doubt, that he is in fact a modern-day wizard.
Author Ted Gioia shared the above clip with a description calling it “a visual demonstration of the power of sound to create order out of chaos.” We see Kanazawa sift out a measure of what looks like sand onto a metal table and then rub a mallet on the surface to create an eerie resonant sound that causes the sand to shift into a clearly-defined design. He continues with different mallets, showing how the unique sounds created with them changes the design.
It’s extremely cool. Gioia points out that Kanazawa is using Cymatics, a term used to describe how audio vibrations can make sound manifest physically and visually.
