Synesthesia
Channel: James Lashmar
Date: 2014-03-24

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This collaboration is based on Synesthesia, which is a neurological condition that causes specific senses to stimulate others. It is unsure how many synesthetes there are, due to the fact that most people who have it, do not realise that it is a condition, they assume it is normal. Although there are various types, the most common is Grapheme to Colour Synesthesia, this causes the person to always see individual numbers or letters in particular colours.
The aim of this project was to highlight some of the other types, that incorporate sound and vision; it was decided that each sound would be represented by a shape and each note of the chromatic scale would have its own colour. Some shapes have slight variations where the same sound has had an effect applied to it (in the audio). The soundtrack was created by Nick and then handed to me to add the visuals using which I created using After Effects and Cinema 4d in a week around my job as a motion designer. Nick created the track using Ableton Live, Kontakt, Massive and Reaktor.
The track is split into 4 pieces visually to represent the actual structure of the audio into, intro / breakdown / drop / outro.
Here is the list of shapes match to sounds:
autosine - torus
organ - tube
kick - oil drum
pyramid - pad
pyramid warped - warped
pyramid bent - pad cut
fiddle - sphere
violin - cylinder
kora - platonic
kora cut - platonic noise
kora shat - platonic (dodeca)
helix - creak
helix mod - glitch drums
star - choir
maracas - capsule
perc - disc
bass - cone
cube - keysCut
oblong - keys
rubiks - keysfx
Nicks Soundcloud : soundcloud.com/oddsock