(sub)Mix: Vibration Sympathique

October 18th, 2010

Not sympathy in the sentimental sense.  Sympathetic vibration has nothing to do with the personal or emotional. For Helmholtz, it meant transduction of energy, resonance induced in a body – a room, a building, a glass, an eyeball – by an external force.  At its resonant, or natural, frequency a body ceases to dampen energy […]