Some comments on the new method (cymatics):
The visualization of sounds was begun by the Swiss medical doctor Hans Jenny (* 1904 – † 1972) who named it Cymatics. Although there were two important prior pioneers, Ernst Chladni (* 1756 – † 1827), father of acoustics (Chladni Figures) and Margaret Watts Hughes (* 1842 – † 1907) (Tonoscope, Eidophone), who converted sounds from the voice directly into patterns, the new scientific orientation entirely from the perspective of sound, using the most advanced technology of today, was begun by Hans Jenny (this can be seen here in a film). The Tone-Circle-Images are also a further development of Hans Jenny’s experimentation with an oscilloscope in which individual tones always form a circle, but intervals of two tones produce patterns. And at the same time, the sound-circle images are a continuation of Alexander Scriabin’s light organ. In other words, art and science are rolled into one when an artist embraces the visualization of a piece of music.
On the atmani-cymatics.org website you will find an extensive travel book about the trip from the Atmani workshop to Beijing. In addition to other texts and experiments by Atmani, there are also excerpts from the diary of Hans Jenny.