Artist chooses CymaScope to help crystalize a dream from teenage years

In 2006 the celebrated American artist, Ray Pierotti, attended the first international conference based on the sound healing modality, Cymatherapy. One of the guest speakers, John Stuart Reid, demonstrated the Cymascope, an instrument he developed with gifted American design engineer, Erik Larson.

Reid's talk and demonstration inspired Mr Pierotti to manifest a concept he first dreamed about as a teenager in the Wasatch Mountains, the creation of art that is able to capture and connect the ephemeral world of sight, shape, and sound.

Ray Pierotti takes up the story:

"The demonstration of the CymaScope in Atlanta, in 2006, was something of a revelation to me: John Stuart Reid was able to show slices of sound suspended in a water medium. For the first time I was able to 'see' sound and understand its spherical nature. For me this crystalized a principle I had first dreamt about in my teenage years in the Wasatch Mountains: the visual connection between sound, chakras, color, states of mind, body organs, numbers, shapes, astronomy, and astrology. All enjoyed visual attributes. All were vibrating 'systems.'

The CymaScope demonstration gave me the final element needed to create my 'Gateway tO the Divine' series, based on the number 7. I call the seven paintings of the series--along with music composed by me "pictumsonus," from 'sonus,' meaning  'of sound' & 'pictum,' meaning 'to paint.'

The subject matter of the work concerns the seven different ways in which people seek to find their divine nature through universally adopted symbol systems. One of those means is sound.

I like to think that 'the muses' introduced me to Cymascope.com! The series could not have been realized without the generosity and support of Reid and Larson. Their permission to use the CymaGlyphs, which Erik created on the Cymascope, provided me with visuals of the seven notes of the western scale. I integrated these circularimages into the paintings and musical scores along with the rest of the elements used to represent the seven different universal approaches. Each painting was created in 49 layers on an untreated cotton fabric stretched over a thin wood panel "

Ray Pierotti's web site is a treasure trove of beauty and artistry. The team at CymaScope.com highly recommends a visit:

http://www.raypierotti.com

Ray Pierotti

Gateways to the Divine - God 5 "I Speak"