{"id":301,"date":"2009-04-10T11:30:26","date_gmt":"2009-04-10T11:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/freshliving\/2009\/04\/brain-break-fun-with-sound-waves.html"},"modified":"2009-04-10T11:30:26","modified_gmt":"2009-04-10T11:30:26","slug":"brain-break-fun-with-sound-waves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/freshliving\/2009\/04\/brain-break-fun-with-sound-waves.html","title":{"rendered":"Brain Break: Fun with Sound Waves!"},"content":{"rendered":"

A friend just sent me this amazingly simple, fun tone matrix<\/a>, and I can’t stop playing with it!  You start with a blank slate, and boxes light up as you click.  A “sound wave” travels across the box, and your lit boxes produce sounds, harmonic, dissonant, repetitive – whatever you want to arrange.  Just press the space bar to clear the board and start over.<\/p>\n

As you can see, I had some fun with this.  Turns out, a smile makes beautiful music!  Click the image to play it yourself, and tell us what you think!<\/b><\/p>\n

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