Synaesthesia: Video research

As part of my research on the condition synaesthesia I found lots of informative videos online that helped me to develop my own understanding of the condition synaesthesia. I have noted some of the facts that I have found interesting and those that would be useful as part of informing the target audience. 

• this man sees objects as colours and generally has a large association with most things and colour
• ideathesia is the semantic pairing and his synaesthesia has allowed him to colour code his chords and notes when playing music
• chromesthesia is when sounds directly evoke colour, meaning that a person with this is likely to have perfect pitch 

• a condition that causes people's senses to join up when stimulated
• one man has developed a tube map based on the tastes that he associated with each of the London stations
• visualisations can cause someone to hear sounds that others cannot 
• there is a suggestion that we are all born with the condition but only some with the genetic composition keep synaesthesia
• Kandinsky wanted his artwork to be understood on a multi-sensory level in comparison to other artworks of the time
• Philippa Stanton is an artistin Brighton who paints people's voices rather than faces

• effects about 4% of the general population
• Annie can hear colours and see sounds
• chromesthesia - colours cause sound to be heard and sounds cause colours to be seen
• everyone to her has a coloured speaking voice that appears in a little cloud surrounding the person
• when listening to music she can see the music physically 'dancing throught the air'
• musicians have started to match visual light shows to go alongside their music 

• input from one sense results in an experience from another sense
• grapheme-colour synaesthesia is the most common 
• not the same associations for everyone with the condition
• researchers are still working on finding out how people get synaesthesia, but there is a large link in terms of it being hereditary 
• it can make those with it uncomfortable if there is too much stimuli around them or if particular letters have a bad taste for example

• connect the senses in a way that the rest of the population doesn't
• hard to put into words
• abstract, not literal
• eat something and then see a colour
• images to match music
• like the travelling path of a board game, its winding but you know exactly where you are at