Week 1

Principles & Practices

Final Project Proposal

The practice of mindfulness meditation is often considered elusive and quite challenging when first starting. Objective observation of one's internal experience is somewhat contradictory to our natural disposition. My proposal for the final project is to create an environment that makes this observation more approachable through a multisensorial immersion. I would like to create a device that transmutes brainwaves into a visual and auditory expression so my plan is to create a cymatic light projector interpreted from brain waves.. I will use an Electroencephalogram (EEG), which monitors electrical activity on the surface of the scalp and use these measurements to create an auditory output. These will be transmitted through a speaker attached to a chladni plate. The plate will hold a dish of water, which will be illuminated by LEDS underneath to project sound vibrations through water.

Brain waves as sound

Sound vibrations visualized via water and light

Cymatic rig set up

Light Projector

Sketch