Sound has a shape
Sing a note, play an instrument or let the music unfold. Cimatica turns your microphone's sound into simulated patterns inspired by Chladni plates, right in your browser.
- Free, in your browser
- Microphone audio stays on your device
Explore sound, one pattern at a time
Tune
Pick one of the seven figures, sing or play its note, and watch the sand gather while you stay on it.
Session
Explore a sound bath or concert and review detected tones afterwards. Readings depend on the surroundings and your selected targets.
Five frequency sets
Solfeggio, bowls at 432 Hz, bowls at 440 Hz, Cousto's Cosmic Octave and C = 256. Choose the targets for your practice.
Three visual styles
Sand, salt and water: three graphical interpretations of the same sound analysis.
Chladni patterns
Explore nineteen illustrative round and square designs. Their Hz targets are model presets, not universal measurements.
Never recorded
Sound is analysed on the phone and is never recorded or sent anywhere.
Cimatica at a glance
Cimatica is a free browser-based sound visualizer. It turns live microphone input into simulated cymatics and interference patterns for exploring voice, instruments and music.
- Who it is for
- People exploring sound visually, singers practising a sustained note, and musicians or sound-bath facilitators following acoustic activity.
- Price
- Free. No payment is required to use the visualizer.
- Account
- No account is required to start listening. Sign in to save session reports to your account history.
- Devices and browser
- Phone, tablet or computer with a microphone. The instrument requires JavaScript, Web Audio and WebGL in a compatible browser over HTTPS; no app download is required.
- Permission
- Microphone access is requested when you choose to start listening.
- Languages
- English, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese.
- Microphone privacy
- Audio is analysed on your device and is not recorded or uploaded by the visualizer. Saved reports contain detected activity, not audio recordings.
- What it does not do
- Patterns are simulations, not measurements of a physical plate or the entire room. Acoustic estimates do not identify songs, separate voices into tracks or diagnose health conditions.
Read more
- Cymatics: sound you can seeExplore cymatics through Chladni figures: vibration, resonance and nodal lines. Try a free simulation and understand what it can and cannot show.
- Chladni figuresUnderstand Chladni figures: nodes, resonance, round and square plates, and the difference between a physical experiment and a phone simulation.
- Turn microphone sound into cymatics patternsUse Cimatica's free online sound visualizer with voice, instruments or music. Set up the microphone and understand noisy, unstable or missing patterns.
- Understand interference patterns in voices and musicLearn how interference, harmonics and noise affect cymatics visuals. A practical guide to reading voice, instruments, concerts and overlapping tones.
- The sound bathWhat a sound bath is, which instruments are used, what to expect during a session, and how to use the Cymatics app to map the frequencies that filled the room.
- Chakra frequenciesCompare Cimatica’s five frequency sets: Solfeggio, bowls at 432 and 440 Hz, Cousto and C = 256. Target table and limits of the symbolic associations.
- Solfeggio frequenciesExplore the nine Solfeggio tones from 174 to 963 Hz. Use them as Cimatica targets and distinguish symbolic associations from actual measurements.
Cymatics is a meditation and wellness app. It is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease. Frequency and chakra associations are traditional and spiritual concepts, not proven medical effects.