Research+Links

Synesthesia Art, Visual Research

Synesketch - a textual emotion recognition and visualization software. http://www.synesketch.krcadinac.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5kznE6kYmc&feature=player_embedded

Synesthetic Paintings http://www.flickr.com/photos/littlelioness09/sets/72157623025165238/with/4333542097/

Synesthesia Art Forum http://synesthesia-artforum.blogspot.com/2011/01/i-make-music-and-art-because-i-have.html

Synesthetic Painter, Audio Designer. Website shows how the audio-scapes Layden creates directly correlate to his art & paintings. http://tblayden.com/Default.aspx?tabid=129 http://theshapeofsounds.com/#

Wikipedia entry on Synesthesia in Art http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia_in_art

Levitated.net contains visual poetry and science fun narrated in an object oriented graphic environment. The sketches and applications generated as a byproduct of research are provided online as [|open source Flash modules]. http://levitated.net/daily/index.html

 Video Music Animations, examples of possible styles for visualizers in section 1 of the piece. Pedro Mari ( born 1986 in Salerno, Italy ), also known as defetto, is a visual artist focused on generative systems. Most of his work uses abstract shapes and a deep study of colour. http://vimeo.com/1732831 http://vimeo.com/1794200 http://vimeo.com/4082679

These are my best (so far) attempts at recreating what I see when I listen to music. Some parts are more 'accurate' than others, both in form and color, but the basic idea is there. Made with Apple Motion, part of the Final Cut suite. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HphMxDXpCEw

Carrie Firman's synesthetic library of sounds and the visuals they cause her to see. This site is really interesting & informative to understanding how sound-visual synesthesia is perceived/experienced by Carrie. http://www.carriecfirman.com/synesthesia/synestheticlibrary.html

SYNESTHESIA Related Web Links

http://www.mixsig.net/index.php

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia

http://web.mit.edu/synesthesia/www/

VIDEOS

Interview with Brian Eno about his 77Million Paintings piece. Computer generated images and sounds that self evolve. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_06fTFFMoi0&feature=related

Good documentary discussing several important aspects of synesthesia. Gives a good background of some of the scientific theories, different forms of synesthesia, as well as interviews with synesthets discussing their personal experiences of synesthesia. http://vimeo.com/7064098

Cool short art film called synesthesia, very neat! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIEiOrxhtNQ

8minute film introducing synesthesia, its context, and how certain people experience it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3DbScY8Ais

synesthesia "diagnosis" video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o39TiACe4mw

Tones, a study in synesthesia. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yS73PY90q_s

A Music Clip for Synesthetics http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XV2zeT39Qeo&feature=related

Sounds of the Alphabet http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOuU0ppCcn8&feature=related

Synesthesia/Bach. visualizer of synesthetic experience of music http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMB4eXPDt4o

synesthesia - an examination of rhythm and human movement. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJHYAeCvED0

Synesthetic bedroom, a virtual reality of the synesthetic experience. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_B-41pmlpU&feature=&p=50D797C036609F32&index=0&playnext=1

BOOKS

A Natural History of the Senses

The Frog who Croaked Blue

Blue Cats and Chartreuse Kittens

== The Man Who Tasted Shapes == by [|Cytowic, Richard E.]

Synaesthesia : classic and contemporary readings / edited by Simon Baron-Cohen and John E. Harrison.

** [|Bright colors falsely seen : synaesthesia and the search for transcendental knowledge] ** 1998 [|Dann, Kevin T., 1956-] New Haven : Yale University Press, c1998.

** [|Neurological disorders in famous artists. Part 2] ** 2007 Basel ; New York : Karger, 2007.