A father and son team of musical super-sleuths has discovered that the geometric patterns carved into a number of blocks decorating Rosslyn Chapel (familiar to any of you who suffered through read The DaVinci Code) are actually cymatics, patterns formed by sound passed through a resonating membrane covered with small particles. Thomas and Stuart Mitchell have translated these patterns into a piece of music they're calling the Rosslyn Motet. Their work will debut at the Chapel on May 18, 2008 but you can watch the video below now to hear some of it and learn more about how they did it.



For more on the fascinating world of "acoustical archeology" check out this article on the Chichen Itza "chirp," an alleged "sound recording" embedded in a Myan temple.