Hi Ashley,
I am not sure how to advise you on structuring a grant; however I can suggest that you gather together the research and documentation on cymatics that is out there now, including pulling together data on the people who are leading the ...
Whoa - I don't have a helpful question for your course, but that last comment about a table in a bar gave me an idea.... What if you hooked a large loundspeaker up under the cymatics table, and had a slow cascade of sand / salt from above that kept filling it up... then you could point a camera at it and project the image of the table on a wall - the sound could be manipulated by a DJ... that would make for a crazy addition to a party or concert!
And depending on the kind of musinc the DJ was spinning, it could work really well with cymatics - I know a lot of electronic music is full of loud, droning tones that modulate slowly over time...
I was wondering if it could be used as some kind of table in a bar!!! It would look good. I don't know if it would work for 'normal' music as it seems to need a constant tone to create a nice design.