The Solfeggio set is older than the equal-tempered scale we now take for granted. Six tones, each whispered through Gregorian chant, each said to act on something specific in the body — release, repair, return.
Cymatica is a small archive that takes those tones seriously. Each piece in the catalog begins with the actual frequency, sustained in a chamber, photographed where its standing waves take physical form. The image you see on the wall is not symbolic. It is the geometry of the sound, made visible.
Modern playlists round the numbers off. They call it 528 Hz because the math is cleaner. But the original tone — the one the monks were sustaining — sits five cycles per second lower, at 523. Five cycles is the difference between a key on a piano and the key next to it. It is the difference the body can feel.
This shop is an attempt to keep the numbers honest. To put the original frequencies — recorded, not rounded — back into the world as prints, as audio bundles, as small reference cards you can keep on the studio wall.
Hover any mandala to hear the actual frequency, generated live as a sine wave. Click to open the print, the audio bundle, and the story behind the number.
This shop is a small act of returning — to numbers that meant something before they were rounded off.From the Cymatica Store practice notes.
Portrait · 35mm
↗ Golden hour
I trained as an opera singer before I learned to work a console. The voice was the first instrument, but it never stopped being an instrument — a frequency held in the body, shaped by breath and intention. The studio came later, and with it the slow understanding that all instruments are, finally, the same thing.
This shop is the part of the practice that lives outside performance. I record the original Solfeggio tones the way they were sung — not the rounded-off versions you find in playlists — and I photograph their cymatic forms. The prints are slow. The recordings are slower. Neither was made in a hurry.
Below is a 30-second preview at 528 Hz — the miracle tone, played as a live sine wave through your browser. It is the same frequency the print holds.