Musician makes patterns in sand with resonance

From LL:

A very artistically talented person makes amazing shapes and colors with vibrating colored sand.

His name is Musician Kenichi Kanazawa
citosays...

looks like the Sandisk logo on sandisk mp3 player screens...

probably not a coincidence since it is sand on a disk

I noticed that cause I recently bought 10 4 gig Sansa clip zip mp3 players on black friday for next to nothing at newegg. and all their boot up logo on the screen does this exact shape and color scheme.

very cool

dystopianfuturetodaysays...

The implement the guy is using is called a 'superball' and is literally the kind of superball you find in market vending machines attached to the end of some kind of pliant stick. It looks like he has a variety of sizes, each activating different overtones, each overtone having it's own unique size and speed of vibration (like ripples in a lake when you toss a pebble). You can make your own superball very easily by just superglueing a super ball on the end of a stick. You can rub them on nearly anything and it will produce a unique sound based on material, density and speed of friction.

The table also seems like an amazing piece of engineering. The surface must have minimal contact with the supports to create that kind of reverberence. I want one!

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