Sina Hamidi

Music is one of the greatest sensory pleasures available to the human ear. Yet how can this pleasure be enhanced when combined with other stimuli, which work to engage other senses, simultaneously? It is a question that has been addressed by a variety of music visualisations – from simple desktop apps to live audio-visual mixing in nightclubs – and brought joy to those who experience it. Yet there are also a certain group of people who, through some genetic twist of fate, experience this multi-sensory combination naturally – a phenomenon we call synesthesia. Therefore, in light of substantial research the topic of synesthesia and creativity, in this BA paper project , I aim to find the correlation between sound and colour and to compile the results in an interactive real-time 3D audio-visual demonstration using Max – and to see whether this recreation of synesthesia can enhance and inspire creativity within my test subjects.

Synesthetic Audio-Visual Platform

2016-01

London, UK