Synesthesis - Music Consciousness Lab
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Music and the Senses
"The colours of music: this week's classical highlights, Téada Trio explore synesthesia...what they offer in tandem with their musical performances is displays of visual art to stir imagination."
Visit the Irish Times LinkSynesthesia
Synesthesia is a blending senses condition characterised by sensory pairings. Synesthetes are people who can see sound, taste words and smell colours...they experience additional sensation in secondary modality. According to Dr. Sean A. Day,"there are at least 80 types of synesthesia, likely more".
A Brief History of Synesthesia in the Arts
Consciousness
Anil Seth, Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience, with his team, conducted an experiment to train non-synaesthetes for colour-grapheme synaesthesia, and stated that after 9 weeks the participants passed the test:"results of an IQ improvement therefore provisionally indicate that cognitive training including synaesthetic associations may in the future be a promising new tool for vulnerable clinical groups to enhance general mental ability".
Sackler Centre for Consciousness ScienceProjects Library
Multisensory design for Music Art Installations/ AR/ VR - View the relevant papers 2019 | 2020
Moscow 2019, Synaesthesia: Cross-Sensory Aspects View Vimeo Source
4D Digital Visualisation of Musical Texture View Youtube Source
National Concert Hall, September 2017 "Music and the Senses" View Vimeo Source
Claude Debussy, Les collines d'Anacapri View Youtube Source
