Imagine yourself reading this text and for each word I say you assume one different color, or looking at a beautiful sunset and tasting sweet in your mouth, these are just some of the manifestations of Synesthesia.
Synesthesia is indeed an amazing concept. It's also crazy to think that someone can actually taste colors and see sounds, I took a moment to think, for example, what does the colors taste, but I wound up being influenced by previous experiences with food, like saying that red tastes Ketchup, I’m unable to separate these experiences.
I was researching about it and I found that various artists and musicians described synesthesia as an important component of their job, like Pharrel Williams (musician), Vladmimir Nabokov (composer), David Hockney (painter) and others...
It is not considered a mental illness, just one different way of interpret things; In the past, it was considered just the source of some creative minds, nowadays it has been a huge research field to help us to comprehend the functionality of our brain.
Synesthesia has wisely been explored in the Audiovisual Industry, I love music videos and I guess I will be posting a lot of them here throughout the semester.
Magnetosphere - Tosca
Star Guitar - Chemical Brothers
Both of them are brilliant, you can see the music happening. Star Guitar has the rhythm of a train journey, and for some people can take some time to understand that the landscape is the music.
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