Abstract
Fundamental regions of vibration in excitable media, such as air columns or elastic reeds, may become chaotic in certain domains of the control parameters. Neighboring regions of such chaotic motion then interact in a chaotic analog of resonance. Experiments with real fluids and with two‐dimensional lattices of chaotic dynamical systems (in digital simulation with massively parallel processors) reveal highly organized space‐time patterns of coherent behavior. These patterns of chaotic resonance are highly suggestive of mechanisms for sound production in wind and percussion instruments, for sound detection in the inner ear, and for sound‐to‐image transformations. [Work supported by NASA.]
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