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This is What Sound Looks Like

The team at Cymaspace creates cutting-edge technology that helps the hearing-impaired experience the thrill of music.

Natasha Scully
Oct 05, 2016
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For most of us, music is a great unifier, an art form that brings people together from all walks of life. But what if you couldn’t hear the lyrics or the rhythmic tunes that bring meaning to some of our most complex feelings? Using cymatics, the science of visualizing audio frequencies, one deaf musician is making music accessible to the non-hearing world — and giving others a new way to engage with sound — altering the concert-going experience and creating new forms of communication and expression.

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