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“There was a piece of music by a group called Uman. The first note was grey and it was like a band of grey with a slight curve to it, and it was a gradient - light grey going to dark grey - it had gold specks on it. The background was black but it was being broken up by other colors, moving shapes of fuchsia and there was a small like a click, almost like a drumbeat, something being struck, and as it was struck, a black shape appeared, and the shapes appeared from left to right, going horizontally across the bottom of this - like a movie screen that I was watching. And the shapes were so exquisite, so simple, so pure and so beautiful, I wanted somehow to be able to capture them, but
they were moving too quickly and I couldn't remember them all. And it's kind of a pity because it was a year's worth of
sculpture I was seeing in a few moments.” by Carol Steen

This is when a sound evokes the perception of a color. It has been recorded that an opera is like experiencing a painting. Sometimes each musical instrument has it's own color. In bi-directional hearing, the changing of a traffic light (or robot as it is referred to in other countries) evokes a bell-like sound.

One of the memorable creative experiences I have had is trying to capture colors and shapes of sound. I used set paper on the floor of my room along to the end and start painting one of my favorite composer's album. Trying to visualize the sound that I felt deep inside dragged me into an exciting and complicated adventure. As I painted, I discovered that the rules I created unconsciously had logical explanations behind. The lines, shapes and colors had reason to be formed in certain ways in my paintings. Color, placement and shape choices were made for reasons that my brain signaled before I conceived it. These memories in mind and the knowledge I have gained in art and the
brain class I have decided my final project to be about colored hearing - chromaetesia. My project will include researches about colored hearing by giving examples of lived experiences, synesthetic-art by looking at some of the pieces that are completed by synesthetic artists( Vasilly Kandinsky) and non-synesthetic modern artist (Mondrian, Malevitch), and composers(Alexander Scriabin, Sir Arthur Sullivan), some scientific experiments that are done by scientists and adventurers (Newton, Stephen Malinowski, Lisa Turetsky, Jameson, Kastner, Bainbridge Bishop, Rimington), few examples of my own that I have experimented in past and the last, and a small processing application with live audio input to paint your own voice. (A project I would like to continue researching)