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What does music look like? This British artist paints what he hears.
For British artist Jake Andrew, music has colour, shape and texture. His paintings capture what he sees when he hears it.
Sounds can sometimes interrupt Andrew’s thoughts, but he sees synaesthesia as an inseparable part of his life.
#Synaesthesia #Painting #Art #Neuroscience #Music #JakeAndrew
so much of selecting each one is like playing music.. but it could just be all the sensations that arise with each. #synaesthesia #colours
Three good things for Saturday:
1. #CurbScores & #FreeCycle: #ceilingfan, which is making all the difference in summer.
2. #Epic dreams & #cinematic, #worldbuilding, hyperspatial #synaesthesia.
3. Hot weather urban #garden gleaning #salad: chard, nasturtium, ...
#ThreeGoodThings #3goodthings
Three good things for Saturday:
1. #CurbScores & #FreeCycle: #ceilingfan, which is making all the difference in summer.
2. #Epic dreams & #cinematic, #worldbuilding, hyperspatial #synaesthesia.
3. Hot weather urban #garden gleaning #salad: chard, nasturtium, purple #kale, snap peas, sorrel, pea shoots, parsley. Old pesto from freezer made w/CSA leftover garlic scapes & basil, sunflower seeds and olive oil. Dressing: Costco artichokes from back of my cabinet.
Examples of Number Forms (1883) by Francis Galton.
Source: The Getty / Internet Archive
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/4c7c851e-04ac-434e-ab2e-e189a74ea2e7
#diagrams #synaesthesia #decorative #numbers #patterns #color #design #art #publicdomain
Guten Morgen liebe Fedi-Welt und Drachenkinder ❤️
Egal wie finster die Welt auch ist, Musik macht sie wieder bunter. :)
(Hilft auch dann ganz besonders, wenn man in vollen Öffis unterwegs ist oder das Telefon im Büro überhören will.. ;))
#dragons #music #synaesthesia #colors #mastoArt #publictransport
Kennt das noch wer? Oder ist das nur ein Synästhesie-Ding? ;)
@wood5y Alex Sobel may have #synaesthesia as he’s “never seen anyone smell of booze” These people have subsided booze. Paid for by us!
"We found synaesthesia is significantly more common in autistic people than in the general population."
https://www.autismresearchcentre.com/projects/synaesthesia-and-autism/
#ActuallyAutistic #synaesthesia #AutismResearchCentre #CambridgeUniversity #autism
Colour Associations and Mental Imagery (1883) by Francis Galton.
Source: The Getty / Internet Archive
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/6a2097fe-01fc-45a7-ab75-35f55cb702a6
#charts #diagrams #synaesthesia #education #numbers #color #transformation #art #publicdomain
Falls zufällig noch wer von euch ne Synästhesie hat, wo er*sie Musik sehen/etc. kann..
kombiniert Musik mal mit nem meditativen Zustand... 😏
ich hab gerade geweint, weil die Erfahrung so geil war.. :D
ich hab ja immer das Gefühl, als ob ich in der Musik säße.. aber das war gerade ein komplett neues Level.. viel mehr Farben/Formen und ich konnte die Musik als Berührungen/Wind spüren.. das kannte ich bis jetzt noch nicht...
ich brauch echt keine drogen in meinem leben...
@satsuma @aspeed Although it's engaged in a cage match with Creepy Nuts's Bling Bang Bang Born, because my musical tastes range very, very widely (I blame the #synaesthesia ).
@annika
Err, these are just varieties of #synaesthesia - not really 'super powers'.
A bad super power would be if, for example, you could smell what someone else was hearing.
I see sounds as shapes. #Synaesthesia has given me an extraordinary ability for languages
Kim Elms, a speech pathologist, shares her experience as an auditory-visual synaesthete
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/jan/10/auditory-visual-synaesthesia-languages
Some #musicians have #PerfectPitch. Some even have #Synaesthesia. Lucky blighters.
I wonder what would happen if some #mathematicians have a similar neurological and perceptual super powers. But then, mathematicians do possess highly developed visualisation abilities and intuitions, which might well be called super powers.
https://www.evshift.com/369313/painting-with-music-ford-puma-sound-edition-shorts/ Painting with Music: Ford Puma Sound Edition #Shorts #2025 #art #artist #Bang&Olufsen #BlueOval #Bô #Edition #ElectricCars #ElectricVehicles #EV #ford #FordEurope #inspiration #JackCouter #LiveBand #MotorCompany #music #new #paint #Painting #puma #shorts #sound #synaesthesia #System #talent #TopBest
https://www.evshift.com/367016/feeling-music-in-full-colour-ford-kuga-sound-edition-shorts/ Feeling music in full colour: Ford Kuga Sound Edition #Shorts #2025 #art #artist #Bang&Olufsen #BlueOval #Bô #colour #Edition #ElectricCars #ElectricVehicles #EV #FEELING #ford #FordEurope #Full #inspiration #JackCouter #Kuga #LiveBand #MotorCompany #music #new #paint #shorts #sound #synaesthesia #System #talent #TopBest
I know someone with #chromesthesia or sound-to-color #synaesthesia, and I've been dying to know how exactly that mapping works for them. Today I've randomly sat around and tried to think of an approach for an #experiment to find that out, but I'm quickly realizing I probably won't be able to source the equipment needed and put it all together. Which is a shame, because I don't think much is missing – it's mostly just me never having dealt with color calibrating screens before and needing to be sure that I get clean data without artifacts from the environment I'm putting together.
My plan would be to put them in front of a large, calibrated screen showing only a single color at a time that they can fully control using three knobs or sliders (using RGB or any other model). They would hear sounds via over ear headphones with a flat response and try to adjust the color to match their experience. I would probably start with white or pink noise at different intensities, then modulated by some simple filters, and on the other extreme pure frequencies and some combinations, towards more and more complex soundscapes.
Wow just wow. Went to see the Kerry James Marshall show at the Royal Academy today. Mind blowingly amazing. Cannot recommend enough if you have the opportunity to see this I absolutely recommend you to go if you absolutely possibly can. (Edited to add description of the couple's skin colour) #art #royalacademy #london #kerryjamesmarshall #synaesthesia #BlackMastodon
til that #ShelbyLoganWarne of #Kyros and formerly of #Synaesthesia worked on the recent #Ihlo album.
Was Brazilian modernist painter Lorenzato a synaesthete?
https://otherthings.com/blog/2025/07/was-lorenzato-a-synaesthete/
This is how spoken words appear in my #ActuallyAutistic #synesthesia brain when I hear two talks simultaneously. Instant sensory overload! No matter how hard I try, my brain simply cannot prioritise one sound over another, especially speech.
#Autism #Autistic #Synaesthesia #SensoryOverload #Neurodivergent
It's an honour to have this haiku featured today. Thanks to Sue Courtney for running the food-inspired haiku workshop where I wrote this, and also for selecting it as haiku of the day.
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#haiku #thehaikufoundation #haikuoftheday #senryu #nz #poetry #poem #senseswitching #synaesthesia #barbeque
@dramypsyd
Mine's the boring one where symbols are mapped onto colours.
I wonder whether your variety is related to the problem some people have with the sound or even just the concept of nails scratching a blackboard?
#synaesthesia #synesthesia
finally made it out to Seeing Sound, Hearing Time, the Ryuichi Sakamato exhibit at the Tokyo Museum of Contemporary Art. A trance-inducing synaesthetic phantasmagoria of music and light. I can’t recommend it more.
#RyuichiSakamoto #坂本龍一 #synaesthesia #contemporaryart #ambient #music #exhibit #tokyo #japan
I will die on this hill 😤💯
It never came up in conversation, but after yesterday's episode on #Synaesthesia, found out that both the kids have it too, and just assumed it was normal. I think this is more common than people assume. Means my wife is the odd one out, as she doesn't have it at all.
About to record the #Synaesthesia episode of our podcast this morning, so any last thoughts you want Kirsten @MoonCat to read out, please get them in now.
This has been a very interesting thread indeed.
Edit so people get to it first, I'd love to discuss these in my podcast if people don't mind. My wife (who's sighted) doesn't get it.
My possibly bizarre version of #Synaesthesia means that words have feeling associated with them, as in my fingers can actually feel what that means.
Having just heard the word 'Utah' in a youtube video, it reminded me that both 'Utah' and 'Uber' feel the same.
They both represent an average car tire with very new treads. No, don't ask why, I have no idea.
Some days of the week also have their associated feelings too, such as Friday being a huge soft spongy ball, Saturday being a Yale lock, Monday being a large camping-style water barrel you can pull along behind you, and Tuesday being the lid of an old-fashioned sweet jar with those huge glass lids that had a ball for a handle, if anyone remembers those.
I haven't heard of anyone else with this particular version of synaesthesia, so I'll just put my madness out there to start a conversation.
Go wild.
You might experience #synaesthesia when you are sometimes so emotionally charged that you see literal lightning bolts
Say what you will about speech being silver and silence being golden, but the letters A, F, H, L, X and the number 4 are green and nothing can convince me otherwise.
I wonder if whoever coined the phrase "Speech is silver, silence is golden" was a #Synaesthete.
I have an acquired form of synaesthesia due to a migraine drug that apparently rewired a bit of my brain in under a month. My experience is that the result varies.
So does she always see the same colour for the same note or chord. and can she describe the colour accurately.
I'd suggest looking at pantone colours as they can be identified then coded easily.
