Wellll, it’s not just sound is it? It’s at least, also qi (prana).
In a nutshell…
Qi is a combination of sound and EM radiation (heat, light, radio to gamma waves). This is why it works in a vacuum, where sound cannot travel.
So, qi is kind of like the sound, base-plate and air in a cymatics sand demonstration, and the vibrating plate my “castle”, It’s the medium that transfers the vibrations to the “sand”.
The sand is the physical manifestation of energy acting as particles - atoms and molecules (themselves also formed of qi, with thier own cymatic patterns.
And the quality of the vibrations, the frequency? are the thoughts of consciousness, which are information carried in the waves qi (sound).
But here, here’s a huge difference - this was 3-D, so there’s no 2-D plate underneath it exactly - the “plate” IS the space it’s in. They are the same thing. A sand particle deep inside it is just as connected to the vibrations as any other particle.
The “plate” is the tao, aka ether.
Another aspect that should be called out - TIME. This can only exist in spacetime. Outside of spacetime there is only consciousness without any connected linear awareness, memory or understanding of relationship, which all need space and time to make sense of them. Come to think of it, there’s no point having an individualized conscious unit without it.
(I think I’m about to do a 180 on saying that entities exist outside spacetime - outside OUR spacetime on this planet, sure - but not without it all together, as long as they have a stable energy body they have to have time.)
For the universe - many conscious minds, many subconscious minds, everything together, all thinking and overlapping and interacting. The word “symphony” has been used before, by religions and scientists alike and I think I see it’s appropriateness through this lens.
In my vision, I asked what happens if you stop the vibrations - the qi? The sand de-manifests - it doesn’t just fall down, it’s gone, back to the tao, (the ether, back to zero point). It only exists because of the vibrations. And the vibrations only exist, because a conscious mind thinks of them.