With Presentations by Ilene Astrahan and Alyce Santoro
gital art and handcraft jewelry. Pendants and earrings made from electronic components, toys and beads were displayed. Ilene also displayed inkjet prints, fantasies of eyes merged with fractal geometry.
Ilene Astrahan's Jewelry
"Flaming Flute"
Alyce Santoro presented a brief introduction to the Cymatics work of Dr. Hans Jenny (1904 to 1972), a Swiss scientist who studied the power of audible sound to excite powders, liquids, and pastes into life-like, flowing forms. She showed a video and passed around a book of some of Jenny's elegant and bizarre experiments with the Tonoscope, a device involving a speaker which would resonate sand, metal filings, or oil into a variety of complex forms. Then Alyce played a short piece on her flute which was attached via a speaker to the "Flame Tube", a long metal pipe with a hundred tiny holes drilled in a line along the top, which is then filled with propane gas and ignited. Vibration from speaker resonates a diaphragm at one end of the pipe, compressing the gas contained within and causing the flames to dance in a variety of wave-like patterns.
