Slowtide, a Cymatics Archive You Can Sing Into

Field notes

Slowtide exposes the translation pipeline rather than hiding it: a selected drawing supplies a fundamental and partial stack, which then drives a modeled round plate. The interface reports symmetry, span, plate mode, and partials, with the visible range running from the first through fourteenth partial. Visitors can switch among sustain, struck, drone, sine-stack, reed, and bowed treatments, then compare the result with their own tone or microphone input.