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Whatever Enters My Head
April 14, 2009
Can You Hear The Colors?: This piano was near a window, and when the sun came through and the piano reflected the sky and trees around, it was really neat looking as you can see. The title and concept was inspired by an interesting mental condition, which is present in more artistic people. It’s not a problem at all, it’s more a gift. Synesthesia is where the neural pathways in the senses cross over, so people will see colors when they hear notes, or other similar effects. I heard about one interesting case. There was a composer in the romantic period who was obsessed with mathematical patterns, and wrote his music around them. Some 100 years later, a woman had a head injury and developed synesthesia. She began painting as part of therapy for other damage. She was listening to the afore mentioned composer, and her paintings took the shape of the fractal patterns the composer used to base his music on. Synesthesia took math -> music -> visual art -> math. Pretty cool, eh? To learn more about synesthesia, visit here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia A great speech on synesthesia that got me interested is here. Highly recommend it: www.ted.com/index.php/talks/vilayanur_ramachandran_on_you…

Can You Hear The Colors?: This piano was near a window, and when the sun came through and the piano reflected the sky and trees around, it was really neat looking as you can see. The title and concept was inspired by an interesting mental condition, which is present in more artistic people. It’s not a problem at all, it’s more a gift. Synesthesia is where the neural pathways in the senses cross over, so people will see colors when they hear notes, or other similar effects. I heard about one interesting case. There was a composer in the romantic period who was obsessed with mathematical patterns, and wrote his music around them. Some 100 years later, a woman had a head injury and developed synesthesia. She began painting as part of therapy for other damage. She was listening to the afore mentioned composer, and her paintings took the shape of the fractal patterns the composer used to base his music on. Synesthesia took math -> music -> visual art -> math. Pretty cool, eh? To learn more about synesthesia, visit here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia A great speech on synesthesia that got me interested is here. Highly recommend it: www.ted.com/index.php/talks/vilayanur_ramachandran_on_you…

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