VIDEO: CymaScope of Humble Bumble Sucking Thumb

EarthFire Institute   
December 1st, 2011

Credit: MattyMan17/Wikimedia

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.

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.

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.

[Source: Earthfire Institute]

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