It was a Tuesday evening at 6pm. The humidity was low, the wind was light, and the bustling energy of the ending work day lingered throughout campus. Our team of elite sound recorders set out on a creative mission to capture unique and captivating sounds. This was my first mission with sound and I was quite uncertain as to what sounds we were going to record. My first impulse was to just start hitting stuff. Then I began to hit stuff with other stuff. Slowly the world around me became a living, breathing instrument. Sounds make an inanimate object come to life and have a voice.
I didn't realize that I had synesthesia until we watched that video on it. While we were watching and she talked about painting Superstition the colors she was using were actually the colors that I was thinking about. Ever since watching that video, I have begun to realize my synesthesia more and more in my daily life and it has become more conscious than subconscious. I have always been really drawn to the sounds of certain songs because of the objects/emotions/colors they portray to me. I just thought that was how everyone experienced music.The cymatics video was very entertaining because it gave you a physical representation of sound, essentially combining your sense of sight and sound. Cymatics gives a completely new meaning to music. Instead of creating a song that sounds good, you can technically make a song that LOOKS good. Cymatics almost seems like it is forced synesthesia in the physical world. You are seeing sound, which is what synesthetes do internally, but having an external real representation means sound can be seen by everyone, synesthete or not. Although what your seeing is not what synesthesia looks like, it is as close as we can get in the physical form.
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