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Hearing colors and seeing sound! (Synaesthesia)
By Nicole Marques
Sounds strange doesn't it? Not to me as I am what science calls a "Synesthete" or "Synaesthete" both spelling are correct. Synaesthesia - from the Greek "syn" (with) and "aisthesis" (sensation) - is a condition in which two or more bodily senses are coupled. Close to sense-fusion. It has been suggested that one component in "Synesthesia" could be passed down genetically on X-chromosomes as some members of the same family experience "Synesthesia." The most common forms are: ♦ Color-Synesthesia or Grapheme): When the perception of numbers and letters are associated with the experience of colors, a colored halo seems to be floating around the characters. ♦ Music-Synaesthesia: When a person will perceive colors in response to sounds. ♦ Sound-Synesthesia: Involves hearing sounds in response to visual motion. ♦ Lexical-Gustatory Synesthesia: When a Synesthete associates a taste to a word. ♦ Colored-Olfaction: When a specific smell is experienced as a color. The list is non exhaustive. According to some studies researchers believe that babies detect the beat in music and would initially be Synesthetes as they perceive the world with mixed senses. Only as the brain gets older can babies be able to separate senses. A few people could apparently not achieve this separation therefore becoming adult Synesthetes. Synaesthesia can be used and explored in the creation of artworks, music, writing etc. On a scientific level researchers now believe it may also yield valuable clues in learning how the brain is organized and how perception works. Through the arts, the synesthetic experience becomes communicable, and blended with a personal vision. Artists might be prone to experiencing Synesthesia, recent research suggests that we all have some capacity for it. This trait may even have set the stage for the evolution of abstraction. Also "intuition" appears mostly in a synesthetic form. Some people after a stroke or brain injury can develop a form of acquired Synaesthesia like responding physically to a sound, a specific sound would bring a sensation of tingling for instance in some parts of the body! Famous Synaesthetes include: Franz Liszt and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (Composers) - Wassily Kandinsky (Abstract Painter) - Vincent Van Gogh (Painter) - Richard Feyman (Physicist) - Albert Einstein (Physicist) - Franz Schubert and Ludwig Van Beethoven (Composers) - Duke Ellington (Composer-Pianist) - Sid Barret (Musician, Singer, Song writer - Pink Floyd Band) - Charles Baudelaire (Poet, Critic, Translator) - Arthur Rimbaud (Poet Anarchist) - Olivier Messiaen (Composer, Organist, Ornithologist) - Amy Beach (Pianist, Composer) and currently under study: Frank Lloyd Wright (Architect, Writer, Educator)- Jimmy Hendrix (Song writer, Singer)- Victor Hugo (Novelist, Poet) and more.
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Contributor's Note
These © paintings were digitally created by me while listening to Opera music. The music was the force behind the butterflies also triggering the bright coloring. If you look closely some elements (like leaves) resemble theater, stage-decors.
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Synesthesia
| http://www.nature.com/nrn/journal/v3/n1/box/nrn702_BX1.html
| http://cytowic.net/
| http://psyche.cs.monash.edu.au/v3/psyche-3-06-vancampen.html
 
Secret Garden - digital art.
Lady and Butterfly - digital art.
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Unique input on a subject matter which is not often discussed and of which affects only a minority of the world's population....Thanks for sharing.
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February, 2012
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