Dutch artist Mariska de Groot creates totally unique sound art installations with analog light-to-sound instruments. For "Vandmand", she collaborated with Dutch sound artist Lars Kynde, and they composed a sound and light piece for the Elsinore Girls Marching Band in Copenhagen, with choreography. … [Read more...]
Mapping Sound to Color
For this month’s topic of Spectrum, I decided to take the word literally, as applied to color, and consider its relationship to sound. The impetus for this decision was a conversation I had with a co-worker, the late sound designer Stillwind Borenstein, about thirteen years ago. He explained an interest that, since both sound and color can be expressed or measured in frequency, … [Read more...]
Sunday Sound Thought 61: The Colors Of Sound
Through an article on one of y my favorite blogs, I recently learned about a rare neurological crossing of senses which is called Synesthesia. In one particular manifestation of the phenomena called Chromesthesia, individuals associate sounds with colors & even shapes. Not in a metaphorical sense, like we’re used to for describing sounds, but as actual … [Read more...]