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Leonardo Reviews LEONARDO R EVIEWS Editor-in-Chief: Michael Punt Managing Editor: Bryony Daleï¬eld Associate Editor: Robert Pepperell A full selection of reviews is published monthly on the LR web site: . BOOKS WATER SOUND IMAGES: THE CREATIVE MUSIC OF THE UNIVERSE by Alexander Lauterwasser. Gunter Maria Zielke, trans. MACROmedia Publishing, Newmarket, NH, 2006. 176 pp., illus. Trade. ISBN: 978-1888138-09-2. Reviewed by Rob Harle, Australia. E-mail: . Water Sound Images: The Creative Music of the Universe is a visually stunning book. The graphic layout and design are superb, with hundreds of full-color illustrations to complement the text. Lauterwasser has drawn heavily on the work of Ernst Chladni and Hans Jenny, both to produce this body of work and as a basis of his own extensive research. This research involves âprojecting audible sound frequencies into small samples of waterâ so that âdelicate patterns emerge, whose structures mirror those found throughout the natural world.â Sound may also be used to excite a metal plate; as the frequency increases, so too does the complexity of the sound images. Figure 37 (pp. 44â45) features a series of over 200 small images; their complexity and beauty is quite astonishing. The book includes an introduction, epilogue,
Leonardo – MIT Press
Published: Feb 1, 2008
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