Grapheme-to-colour
Associating/seeing individual letters or numbers with a specific colour. Usually, two people do not associate the same colours, apart from the letter A which has commonly been reported to be red.
James Wannerton - 'Tastes of London'
'There are a few nice tasting tube stations. My top three would definitely include Baker Street which has the taste and texture of a Jam Roly-Poly pudding. Another personal favourite is Paddington which comes with the beautiful taste and texture of a Flump. Top of the list though has to be Tottenham Court Road. It has the taste and texture of an English breakfast - sausage and a fried egg done just right!'
Worst tasting:
'What are the colours of music, in what space does music live? If it's moving, then in which direction?' are the questions that framed the creation of another animation that would 'show the music'.
As a saxophonist, observing music and translating it into a language of forms and patterns is often exciting and rewarding. This animation was created with an attempt to express this in a visual way to those who may not experience synaesthesia, but are interested by it.
Jack Coulter
Melissa McCracken
Melissa McCracken grew up with the neurological condition of synaesthesia, translating all songs as colours. She took this condition and translated it into a series of paintings inspired by her favourite musicians. She has chromesthesia which means that she spontaneously and involuntarily sees colours when listening to music.
Lexical-Gustatory
This one of the rarer synaesthesia types and those who experience this kind of synesthesia evoke different kinds of tastes when they hear certain words or phonemes. Research has shown that associations between the words and what a synesthete is able to taste are constrained by tastes he or she has experienced early in life.
Synesthesia can occur between any two senses or perceptual modes, so there are a large number of combinations that could be made but there are some that are known to be more common.
James Wannerton - 'Tastes of London'
James Wannerton has Lexical-gustatory synesthesia and has mapped out what flavours he tastes at every single London Tube station. Since the age of 5 when he started to take the Underground to school, he noticed distinct taste associations with each station and started to keep track of them. The taste associations for the map are based on him simply reading the name on a London Underground map and then he would visit the station to ensure that the association was the same.
It has taken 49 years to visit and record the flavour of all 360 tube stations and he confirms that the tastes don't change, synesthesia is consistent.
'There are a few nice tasting tube stations. My top three would definitely include Baker Street which has the taste and texture of a Jam Roly-Poly pudding. Another personal favourite is Paddington which comes with the beautiful taste and texture of a Flump. Top of the list though has to be Tottenham Court Road. It has the taste and texture of an English breakfast - sausage and a fried egg done just right!'
Worst tasting:
'Bethnal Green which tastes very strongly of boiled cabbage.'
'Cannon Street complete with the taste and texture of 3-In-One lubricating oil.'
Sound-to-colour
Sound triggers the visualisation of coloured, generic shapes. For certain people, the stimuli are limited, and only a few types of sounds will trigger a perception. Usually, the perceived colours appear in generic shapes such as squares, circles and triangle.
Michal Levy - Giant Steps
'I play saxaphone and am deeply attached to music. When I play or listen, I always feel that I actually “see” the music. Both music and the visual arts share concepts like tone (of colour or sound), composition, harmony. Naturally they mixed and mingled in my consciousness over the years.'
This visual representation of Coltrane's Giant Steps, attempts to represent the complex harmonic structure that has challenged many musicians and performers. Michal Levy expresses that there was no need to invent something new in order to visualise the music, it just required listening over and over again as the answers to the questions were within the music itself. The repeated pattern in the melody has been visualised as a building's structure, played twice and then in the film the framework is complete when constructed twice, showing this idea. The general approach was to understand the emotional meaning of each musical phrase and to then choose the direction in space in the visual world that will suit it best.
This visual representation of Coltrane's Giant Steps, attempts to represent the complex harmonic structure that has challenged many musicians and performers. Michal Levy expresses that there was no need to invent something new in order to visualise the music, it just required listening over and over again as the answers to the questions were within the music itself. The repeated pattern in the melody has been visualised as a building's structure, played twice and then in the film the framework is complete when constructed twice, showing this idea. The general approach was to understand the emotional meaning of each musical phrase and to then choose the direction in space in the visual world that will suit it best.
Michal Levy - One
Michal Levy discovered Jason's music back in 2000 when she participated in a student exchange program in New York. His music was seen to be 'colourful and exciting' and when closing eyes it was visualised in shapes and colours.
'What are the colours of music, in what space does music live? If it's moving, then in which direction?' are the questions that framed the creation of another animation that would 'show the music'.
As a saxophonist, observing music and translating it into a language of forms and patterns is often exciting and rewarding. This animation was created with an attempt to express this in a visual way to those who may not experience synaesthesia, but are interested by it.
- when aged 11 the homework was to draw from life and all the other students arrived in with perfectly drawn fruit etc. but Jack had immersed a double page in colour
- he has idiosyncratic synesthesia which is when he feels emotionally stimulated within a specific situation, like staring at the sky etc.
- chromesthesia is his main type, hearing sound and seeing it as a colour
- the sensory overload affected him more as a child and gave him bad migraines
- he sometimes sees the condition to be draining and disorientating, but at other times he learns a lot from it and how he can visually represent these perceptions
- he has never once painted with a paint brush always using sticks, knives and broken glass
- the aggressive titles of the pieces provoke an introspective experience for the viewer, allowing them to delve into one's interior rather than one's exterior
- his posts are often accompanied by type ups of text, either by him or others he admires
- the singer SOAK used his artwork for her album 'Before we forgot how to dream'
Melissa McCracken grew up with the neurological condition of synaesthesia, translating all songs as colours. She took this condition and translated it into a series of paintings inspired by her favourite musicians. She has chromesthesia which means that she spontaneously and involuntarily sees colours when listening to music.
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| David Bowie - Life on Mars |
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| Prince - Joy in repetition |
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| Radiohead - All I need |
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| Radiohed - Karma Police |
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| Bon Iver - For Emma, forever ago |
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| Jimi Hendrix - Little wing |
Ordinal-linguistic personification
This type is known as ordinal-linguistic personification or OLP. The individual will associate ordered sequences with various personalities. Ordered sequences may include numbers, letters, months etc. For example, someone may look at the letter ‘A’ and think in his mind that ‘A’ is a rude letter.
Jesse Jaren
Jesse Jaren
Graphic Designer Jesse Jaren’s portrayal of ordinal-linguistic (personification) is based on his observations of his wife’s recent discovery of her synaesthesia. The alphabet is an ordered sequence, so as a graphic designer he decided to illustrate a typeface based on the short descriptions of personalities she had assigned to each of the letters.
Number-form
A number form is a mental map that consists of numbers. When a person with number-form synaesthesia thinks about numbers, a number map is involuntarily visualised. Number forms are a product of 'cross-activation' between regions in the parietal lobe - a part of the brain that is involved in numerical and spatial cognition.
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