Alexander Lauterwasser (born 1951 in

Überlingen Überlingen (; ) is a German city on the northern shore of Lake Constance (Bodensee) in Baden-Württemberg near the German-Swiss border, border with Switzerland. After the city of Friedrichshafen, it is the second-largest city in the Bodenseek ...

) is a German researcher and photographer who based his work on work done by

Ernst Chladni Ernst Florens Friedrich Chladni (, , ; 30 November 1756 – 3 April 1827) was a German physicist and musician. His most important work, for which he is sometimes labeled the father of acoustics, included research on vibrating plates and th ...

and Hans Jenny in the field of

Cymatics Cymatics (from ) is a subset of modal vibrational phenomena. The term was coined by Swiss physician Hans Jenny (1904–1972). Typically the surface of a plate, diaphragm, or membrane is vibrated, and regions of maximum and minimum displacement ...

. In 2002, Lauterwasser published his book ''Wasser Klang Bilder'' (Water Sound Images) with imagery of water surfaces set into motion by sound sources ranging from pure

sine wave A sine wave, sinusoidal wave, or sinusoid (symbol: ∿) is a periodic function, periodic wave whose waveform (shape) is the trigonometric function, trigonometric sine, sine function. In mechanics, as a linear motion over time, this is ''simple ...

s to music by

Ludwig van Beethoven Ludwig van Beethoven (baptised 17 December 177026 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. He is one of the most revered figures in the history of Western music; his works rank among the most performed of the classical music repertoire ...

Karlheinz Stockhausen Karlheinz Stockhausen (; 22 August 1928 – 5 December 2007) was a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important but also controversial composers of the 20th and early 21st centuries. He is known for his groun ...

and even overtone chanting. In 2006, MACROmedia Publishing published the English version of the Lauterwasser book titled ''Water Sound Images''. It is a 176-page hardcover edition with hundreds of color photos, presenting the art, science and mystical side of

. In 2012, Lauterwasser's work was featured in the film Inner Worlds Outer Worlds.

External links

Alexander Lauterwasser main website Wasser Klang BilderCymatic Source
- where images from the book "Water Sound Images" can be found

References

Photographers from Baden-Württemberg 1951 births Living people People from Überlingen {{Germany-photographer-stub