Would have been nice if they hadn't spent most of the video zoomed in on individual grains of sand, so we could actually see the patterns forming.

What the heck is he playing, anyways? The instrument... no idea what it is.

impressive, but how is that guy considered a musician? first drummers, now this?

mr_a: That was pretty cool.

Kanazawa-san, since sand costs about $20 for a ton, maybe next time you could shot two videos...one without that farkin' noisy camera going off?

A-farking-MEN brother!

I have a great idea. let's not only find the loudest camera on the face of the earth, but let's shoot it with a spider monkey with ADHD behind the camera, zooming in and out at random and missing some of the best stuff.

I'd love to see a version of this with a static God's-eye cam and total silence other than the resonance he's making. That would be a total trip.

All that effort, and you upload to LiveLeak? The shiattiest quality video site on the net.

Marine1: What the heck is he playing, anyways? The instrument... no idea what it is.

It looks like rubber superballs across a metal tabletop. It seems that the dragging of the rubber against the table imparts vibrations into the table at different frequencies.

Musicians play instruments to produce tones you like. This guy is vibrating a table.

mr_a: That was pretty cool.

Kanazawa-san, since sand costs about $20 for a ton, maybe next time you could shot two videos...one without that farkin' noisy camera going off?

I kept expecting them to find a death's head moth in a corpse's mouth.

Wow am I underwhelmed.

Subby, if you wanted a good video about harmonics and how they work, I suggest this one by some geeky chick (who I will assume is also hot):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_0DXxNeaQ0

cool simon game, needs to work on his electronics tho - I can't tell which one is beeping.

John Napkintosh: Marine1: What the heck is he playing, anyways? The instrument... no idea what it is.

It looks like rubber superballs across a metal tabletop. It seems that the dragging of the rubber against the table imparts vibrations into the table at different frequencies.

Ah. Cool.

So which one of you stoned slackers is gonna take some acid, watch this, and post the YouTube video of your reaction for us to laugh at?

cretinbob: farking harmonics, how do they work?

resonant frequencies

/there's a mb20 song that makes my windows rattle in their panes

MusicMakeMyHeadPound: Wow am I underwhelmed.

Subby, if you wanted a good video about harmonics and how they work, I suggest this one by some geeky chick (who I will assume is also hot):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_0DXxNeaQ0

I'm not picking up hot. But I suspect it would take her quite a while to explain why she doesn't take it in the butt. That might be hot.

Cute, but the video sucks. Half the time the cameraman was zooming in on something dull, only to zoom back out to reveal a pattern mysteriously having appeared. Would have been nicer to stay wide-shot so we could watch the patterns grow.

I like mung ("oobleck") on a subwoofer better.

Fish in a Barrel: All that effort, and you upload to LiveLeak? The shiattiest quality video site on the net.

Here's a higher-quality version of that video on Youtube:

Link (new window)

I've always been fascinated by cymatics. To my way of thinking, it puts the lie to the modern notion by fans of atonalism that harmony and dissonance is entirely culture-specific.

This was a total failure IMO, because it failed to summon any giant sandworms.

yep, not a musician by any stretch, just a simple display of harmonics and physics. the local science museum has had a display set up to do this for DECADES!
and when I say that.. I meen, that display has moved around the museum for as long as I can remember, and I'm pushing 40 now.
two steel plates, both of them held up in the center, one triangular, one square, over a big bin of play sand, take a scoop out and dust the plates with it. then take the hack saw thing that has had its blade replaced with fiberglass strand bow, rub it through the rosin, then drag it down the sand covered steel plates, and hold it here, there or whatever to make harmonic patterns. the damn display has been there for so long that there are grooves worn into the steel plates from the people dragging the bow.

dude is most certainly not a musician for doing this. nor is the guy making art by constructing the giant spirograph/pendulum thingy

Heh. That's been a great acoustic waveform demonstration since the 1960s..

Very cool, but what a bizarre photo shoot. I feel like I was watching some sort of weird porno where the sand was being forced to do despicable things against its will.

You can tell that he never hit the brown note.

Vibrating sand? Talk about sex on the beach, amirite?

His name is Musician Kenichi Kanazawa

That's an awkward name.

Meh, just a viral ad for Tables 7.