Friday, November 28, 2014
The name most associated with Cymatics is that of Swiss born Physician & natural scientist Hans Jenny (pr. yenny). His 1967 book Kymatic volume 1 first popularized the phenomena of -'Cymatics' the phrase coined by Jenny which has become synonymous with wave phenomena and the creation of ethereal looking water-sound images
Born in Basel Switzerland in 1904, Jennys love of nature & music were strong influences from an early age. As a child he was a gifted keyboard player and although a career in music seemed his most likely route he chose instead to become a physician. After completing his doctorate he taught science at the Rudolph Steiner school in Zurich for four years, before setting up his own medical practice in the Swiss village of Dornach.
Jennys naturalistic approach to his work informed his view of Cymatics & sound and their part in the creation of the universe. Jenny was an advocate of the idea that Cymatics described a sound-matrix at work in nature, an invisible driving force that could create everything from the wave-like shape of a mountain range to the stripes on a zebra or the petals on a flower
"The more one studies these things, the more one realizes that sound is the creative
principle. It must be regarded as primordial. No single phenomenal category can be
claimed as the aboriginal principle. We cannot say, in the beginning was numbers
or in the beginning was symmetry, etc..... They are not themselves
the creative power. This power is inherent in tone, in sound." - Hans Jenny
