* Power Fruit
A rather creative video-audio portrayal of Synesthesia...more or less a music video. ... plugged in fruit, etc.
Wonderfully odd and experiential.
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* Also: The Soloist-Cut A Beautiful Play Of Colors With Beethoven`s Music
... this is a scene from the Jamie Fox, Robert Downey Jr. movie, The Soloist. Imagery attempts to suggest what might be seen within the music.
Seeing Life in Colors: Crosswired Senses
ABCNews video article introducing Synesthesia (3:15)
Lorde explains her Musical Synesthesia with Seth Meyers (@1:30 Synesthesia explanation begins)
Synesthetic Locked: Definitely experiencial.
The Artist Who Paints what she sees (2.43)
Tired of explaining herself, she has begun painting what she sees when she hears.
Take a look...
...and a listen.
Nice introductory video briefly interviewing several synesthetes. Describes a wide variety of synesthetic sensory pairings. A young composer desribes his tonal-color associations.
2010MAPS Film school documentary.
(10:13)
A synesthete's account... nice intro and historical background. Info on brain-stimuli-suppression hypothesis.
(8.15) David Eagleton.
(long)
Chromasethesia -- Color-Sound Synesthesia. (13.45)
Annie Dickinson, in a youth TEDTalk, describes her experience and discovering she was not typical. She explores music in relation to her color-sight experiences. The video inlcudes a segment of music-video that reflects what she sees as she hears.
What she has learned:
"Another's viewpoint, while different, is equally true and equally real."
Jamie Ward, TedTalk on the Curious World of Synaesthesia (13.02)
Presents examples of different types of synesthesia.
Wasily Kandisky's work and possible synesthesia. He compares dischordant sounds to a Kandinsky painting. He also discusses research with non-synesthetes suggesting that we all have some degree of associations between sight and sound.
An interactive self-test. (about 10 minutes).
(There is another newer test on the same site, but some settings are keeping it from loading on my browser.)
Seeing Sound, Tasting Color: Synesthesia
Good description of the phenomena.
It gives a really good summary of what synesthia is. It gives different examples of how synesthia can work (giving you feeling in your fingers, taste, etc.).
I also didn't realize that a person with synesthesia could go their whole life without realizing the effects of synesthesia are unusual. It is also really interesting that it is an involuntary action. I thought that they had to think about it in order for it to happen.
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* Synesthesia on 60 Minutes with Richard Cytowic, M.D.
Good interview introduction... same expert as the ABCNews video article.
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* What color is Tuesday? Exploring synesthesia - Richard E. Cytowic
Type of Synesthesia: Color linked to time or chronology
Synesthesia - Numberphile 3.54
Grapheme to Color
An articulate description by a synesthete of color-number and number-personality links.
Seeing Song Through the ears of a synesthete: TedTalk: 9.45
"Kaitlyn Hova is not only a professional violinist, composer, full stack web developer, designer, neuroscientist, and core team member of Women Who Code, but she is also a synesthete—which means her sensory perception is quite different from what most people experience. Watch Kaitlyn's 2016 TEDMED talk to get a sense of what it's like to hear color and see music."
- at 5min mark, she begins to portray what she experiences.
Also What's it Like to Hear Colors (violin, lights, narrative)
This is a short article about synesthesia, It has a link to a video, "An Eye Full of Sound", it's an animated documentary about synesthesia. Its a little strange but very well made and informative.
B.)http://otherthings.com/uw/syn/flash/syn25.html is an interactive link from her blog where you can type words to see how she would see it and then it fades to all one predominate color, I'm assuming based off the word's meaning.
Hearing Colors, Seeing Sounds: Synesthesia video
Some People Really Can Taste The Rainbow article on taste-involved synesthetes. "..the brains of synesthetes do appear to be anatomically different... the neural connections between different sensory parts of the brain are more mylinated in people with synesthesia.
informative and pretty interesting. It said that synesthesia can be effected by drugs. Such as caffeine and nicotine decrease your synesthetic perception. It also talked about children's learning abilities being effected
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3DbScY8Ais
This is an 8 minute long video directed by Jonathan Fowler. He covers the basics of what synesthesia is and how it works. Three different people are in the video describing what type of synesthesia they have. One of them sees food in color, another numbers/letters, and lastly days of the week. In the video, he also discusses different theories scientists have on what makes people synesthetic. I found the video to be very interesting because I can understand it. Some of the things he brought up about non-synesthetic people was very interesting. I have experienced what he said.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7T335GkMpY
This video is about a woman who has all three. The document says that she is the only one in the world. I think it's interesting the story she tells about how she discovered it. I also thought it was interesting that they call in a "power". I'm not sure I think of it as a power, although it does seem like it would be fun to have for a day!
Girl’s personal synesthesia- 6 I really enjoyed hearing about what kind she has!
I really liked learning a little bit more from someone who has synesthesia. Thought her sharing her story brought it to life. I can’t imagine seeing like this but she helped to bring it to life and for a second and sit in her shoes. It also was interesting to think about the famous poets and writers with synesthesia and how it helped their creativity.
Dancing Blobs | A similar sound-color Synesthtic experiential video
A sort of experiential blob...sythesizer sound animation.
Trick of the Senses (pt1; 8:36)
A good introductory video and explanation of Synesthesia... enjoy the German accent.
(Video 6:16) A Photographer's perspective..
... focuses solely on one man's condition. We get a clearer image of his particular situation.
The ending of the video is thought-provoking because I had not considered the effect that this condition would have on a being psychologically. I only considered how cool it would be to see all of those colors all day long.
Here, we see that people with synesthesia are not all necessarily thrilled with the fact that they are stuck with the condition for the rest of their lives, with no explanation as to why they were bestowed with so unique a talent.
— Informative ****
— Experiential **
Lady & Letters — grapheme depiction (1m)
The video reproduces one woman's experience with letters, and what sounds and colors each letter represents to her. So it gives a feel of what it would be like to look at the alphabet if you had synesthesia.
Piano-color synched... kinda fun... (0.32)
this is an experiencial play with flowing color and paint ... its not literally "synesthesia", but then... it is.
— Informative ********
— Experiential ***
— This is a well-produced, thorough intro to synesthesia. It includes brief accounts from several synesthetes. Also present the historical background of the study of synesthesia.
— I found it interesting that one of the ladies could taste names.
Barbra= coconut,
William= fried tomatoes.
— Informative *
— Experiential ***
— I think it would be cool to taste a face... that is if it was a flavor i liked.
— At first, it was funny, but as the slides kept coming, I could see why he chose the foods he did. It was intriguing.
— Not much info here...but lots of faces to taste-test. How would we test to see if we "taste them" the same?
( video 6:06) Colorful Tastes & Sounds
— Informative ******
— Experiential ***
— The clip was interesting, but not a 'must see'.
—Very nice explanation with info on neurological hypotheses of synethesia's cause.
— I really liked what this guy was saying about sounds. He was saying that he might like a sound that an instrument makes but he hates the color. He also likes odd food combinations because the colors look good together.
— They interview the same expert, Dr. Eagleton, as in the Red Mondays... video.
— Shawn Day can see colors when he tastes food and hears music. I thought it was interesting that he likes to eat chicken, ice cream and orange sauce all together because they have very similar colors that he likes. That's not something you would normally eat. It's interesting how the similar colors in the foods make an odd dish of food that still tastes good (at least to the Synesthete)
( video 1:51 ) The Sound of Motion
— This site talks about a rare form of synesthesia where the person hears motion. The guy hears a bird hop and demonstrates the sound that he hears.
— Informative ****
— Experiential **
Description: Slightly boring, but very informative. It's good for a basic understanding of what synesthesia is.
It's quite long too - 10 minutes.
"... findings suggests that people with synesthesia... do not necessarily have extra connections in their brain; rather, their brains may simply do more 'cross talking' which can be induced by changing inhibitory processes in the average brain.
This is an experiencial music/sound video.
No info on synesthesia, just an interesting sound-image concert.
