This article introduces Resonant Waves, a work of interactive new media art that incorporates cymatic patterns into an immersive installation. The authors describe their research and design process in creating Resonant Waves, and they discuss technical details about the installation, highlighting innovative aspects of the project and contextualizing the project in terms of previous cymatics research and related artistic explorations of complex phenomena. Finally, the authors discuss audience reaction to different installations of the project and identify directions for future research in immersive cymatics.

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Resonant Waves installation at the Binary Salon 13 event in San Francisco, CA, in December 2019. Participants sit down and Interact with the artwork, feeling (through deep bass transducers), seeing (as cymatics) and hearing the sound frequencies as they affect and are affected by them. (Video © 2020, recorded and produced by Juvenal Cisneros, Audio © Andy DiLallo & Richard Grillotti)

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Resonant Waves: Immersed in Geometry in a private viewing room at the UC Santa Cruz Digital Arts Research Center, Summer 2019. The small concrete-walled room served as an excellent sound chamber for additional sonic resonance. Hosted by Grillotti & DiLallo with plenty of opportunity to discuss the experience with participants. (Video © 2019, recorded by Richard Grillotti & Andy DiLallo, Produced by Andy DiLallo, Audio © Andy DiLallo & Richard Grillotti)

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