For contemporary audiovisual artists, the possibilities inspired by this phenomenon, known
as synesthesia, have expanded with the advent of recent digital technologies that translate all electronic media, whether sounds or moving images, into the zeros and ones of computer bits.
This phenomenon is known
as synesthesia, which is often deemed a neurological condition, and occurs when the stimulation of one sense leads to automatic, involuntary stimulation in another sense.
Together with his ability to experience sound visually and vice versa — a phenomenon known
as synesthesia — these formative experiences continue to shape his work.
It may help elucidate the defective processing behind mysterious disorders such
as synesthesia, in which patients taste colors and see flavors.
In the peculiar neurological condition known
as synesthesia, a person's senses meld together, so that a synesthete might «hear» colors or «taste» shapes.
Not exact matches
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This discovery also explains why sensory interferences, including
synesthesias and hallucinations, can occur in people suffering from neurodevelopmental disorders such
as autism or schizophrenia.
(It could be argued that Shakespeare also linked
synesthesia, in a broader form, to meaning: Bottom, in A Midsummer Night's Dream, describes his dream
as being indescribable because «The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen... what my dream was.»)
In its more severe forms,
synesthesia is an intriguing neurological anomaly in which a person's sensory systems are crossed; a color might be perceived
as a sound.
A connection between letters or other symbols and colors, also known
as «grapheme - color»
synesthesia, was the most common type in the Emory study.
«Of the four highly hypnotizable participants in the study, three showed a strong
synesthesia - like association between symbol and color,
as shown by their verbal reports and confirmed by eye tracking.
«There may be other forms of
synesthesia, such
as seeing colours for sounds, or hearing sounds in response to visual motion, that are present in non-human animals,» says Hubbard.
The estimated occurrence of
synesthesia ranges from rarer than one in 20,000 to
as prevalent
as one in 200.
Some people with
synesthesia perceive letters and numbers
as having specific colors.
California Institute of Technology neuroscientists Melissa Saenz and Christof Koch confirmed the existence of hearing - motion
synesthesia,
as they dubbed it, by creating a task at which the synesthetes would have an advantage.
As we shall see in the following chapters, Shereshevskii possessed a very strong
synesthesia — an involuntary link between different senses, like associating numbers with colors — that gave his memories a much richer content and thus made them easier to recollect.
This is not so much cinematography
as straight - up
synesthesia: however the film looks, it has the smell of smoke and sweat and stale booze.
Even sweet - natured Dovid, insecure in his status
as heir to the Rav, is prone to blinding headaches that bring on
synesthesia.
(Egorova's gift for
synesthesia, the ability to see the emotions of others
as colors, though central to the book, has been eliminated without a trace.)
It all starts with the digital instrument cluster, with crystal clear
synesthesia - triggering graphics of at least the same caliber
as those offered by the likes of BMW X5 and Audi Q7.
The most common form of
synesthesia appears to be when someone sees a letter, number or word
as a particular color - for example a synesthete might see the word car
as sky blue and the number 5
as light green.
In her debut novel, Prentiss takes a more modern tack
as she explores the NYC art scene in the 1980s through the eyes of an art critic whose
synesthesia has made him one of the most original writers around and an exiled Argentinian artist fleeing the Dirty War.
Mirror - touch
synesthesia Lana is able to sense things that others can't, such
as the emotional residue left in a...
Experience 360 degrees of mind - blowing
synesthesia as you blast your way through waves of enemies and massive transforming bosses, with your every move triggering colors and sounds that sync and blend to the beat of the legendary techno soundtrack of Rez.
The
Synesthesia Suit will be showcased at 2017 Sundance Film Festival,
as a New Frontier installation from January 19 through 29.
Described by Cha
as «mechanized
synesthesia,» the piece explores the ecstatic mutability of language in motion — between bodies and across different sensory registers.
This seems
as clear a statement of the notion of
synesthesia, utilized by many of the historical avant - gardists, specifically Kandinsky,
as one could render.
Giving that
synesthesia is commonly referred
as the ability to see sound, Banisadr manages to transfer the sound he hears using many details, symbolic references and a special blending of color.
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