PAINTING MUSIC IS NOT SYNESTHESIA

i have been painting music for fifteen years. I do not hear my oatmeal or taste numbers etc

my teacher received his teaching from the bauhaus where painting music was taught... by kandinsky@!

A psychoneurologic condition cannot be taught@!

"The laws of harmony are the same for painting and music"
This is a direct quote from all three: Kandinsky, Leonardo, and Pythagoras

Anything that has form is the subject of painting... says me. that means...nature, music, the human figure, a novel, a film, a mathematical equatiion... all these can be painted and more. anything that has form can be painted.... even those things formless and "abstract" in nature..where there is life, there is structure/form... moreso... without structure/form there is no painting

"Colour is the key. The eye is the hammer. The soul is the piano with its many chords. The artist is the hand that, by touching this or that key, sets the soul vibrating automatically."(Kandinsky).

Kandinsky tested all his students, as we were tested, to correspond the three primary colours... red blue yellow with the three primary shapes... square circle triangle something like 90% of art students answer the same@!

The general public, the medical, artistic and academic communities do not understand the theory and practice of painting musically, when:

  • it is a concept going back thousands of years...
  • kandinsky wrote a book about it, "Concerning The Spiritual In Art"
  • even third graders in Tennesee are taught it, and,
  • These concepts are older than Bach’s “Chromatic Compisition.”
  • at 27,000 web references strong... it places Vasily Kandinsky the brilliant abstract painter among the neurologically cross-wired (read: another crazy artist) rather than the brilliant theoretician, painter, and teacher he was.

I suggest use of two terms..

one) synesthesia to describe the neurological and psychological condition; and
two) synaesthesia to describe artistic sensibilities

Websites on synesthesia

Synesthesia
by Sean A. Day

Having combed the internet through thousands of sites and articles that refer to synesthesia I have found only one, Sean's which draws the distinction between synesthesia the neurologic/psychologic condition, and synaesthesia, artistic sensibilities. The first he calls true synesthesia and the latter he calls "pseudo-synesthesia".

There is nothing pseudo about it. There are many articles about Kandinsky, the "man who heard his paintbox hiss," but taking the quote in context, one finds a long poetic passage.. written in what used to be called "purple prose." The language of synaestesia is everywhere!

Websites About Synesthesia and Synaestesia

The 21st Century Color Organ
by Jack Ox
http://www.bway.net/~jackox/

American Synesthesia Association
http://www.synesthesia.info

Artificial Synesthesia
by Peter Meijer
http://www.visualprosthesis.com/asynesth.htm

Australian Synaesthesia Association
by Pat Higgs
http://www.synesthesia.com.au/

Belgian Synesthesia Association
by Dr. Hugo Heyrman
http://www.doctorhugo.org/synaesthesia/index.htm

Blue Cats Synesthesia Resource Center
by Pat Duffy
http://www.bluecatsandchartreusekittens.com/Blue_Cats_and_Chartreuse_Kittens_Rel.html#SCI

Color Imagery
by Tony De Caprio
http://www.tonydecaprio.com/page13.html

Colour Music
by Niels Hutchison
http://www.vicnet.net.au/~colourmusic

Congreso Internacional Sinestesia y Arte
Arte Citta, Spain
http://www.artecitta.es/

Essence of colour
by Anne Salz
http://home.planet.nl/~salz0000/index.htm

Kinetic Synaesthesia: Experiencing Dance in Multimedia Scenographies
by Marc Boucher
http://www.contempaesthetics.org/pages/article.php?articleID=235

Laboratory of Sensory Information Processing
by Lawrence Marks et al.
http://www.jbpierce.org/Labs/SIProcessing.html

Leonardo Synesthesia Special Project
by Jack Ox and Jacques Mandelbrojt
http://leonardo.info/isast/spec.projects/synesthesia/synesthesia.html

Media Lab
by Shem Booth
http://medialab.freaknet.org/shem

Mind, the gap
by Amanda Steggell
http://www.notam02.no/motherboard/synaesthesia

Multi: Multiple-user Laser Table Interface
by Nancy Paterson
http://www.vacuumwoman.com/multi/index.html

Music Animation Machine
by Stephen Malinowski and Lisa Turetsky
www.musanim.com

Online Visual Music Forum
by Ron Pellegrino
http://www.ronpellegrinoselectronicartsproductions.org/Pages/VisualMusicForum.html

Painting Music
by Phillip Schreibman
http://www.paintingmusic.com/

Prometheus Institute
by Bulat Galeyev
http://prometheus.kai.ru/

Reflectionist - Synesthesia and Photography
by Marcia Smilack
http://www.marciasmilack.com

Rhythmic Light
by Fred Collopy
http://rhythmiclight.com/index.html

Rhythm Vision
by Dennis Roth
http://www.rhythmvision.net/

Sensequence
by Angela Meder and Andreas Mengel
http://www.sensequence.de/indexen.html

SIGGRAPH 2004 Art Gallery
Synaesthesia Exhibits Works
http://www.siggraph.org/s2004/media/releases/release9.php?pageID=media

Sinaesthesieforum.de by Regina Pautzke http://www.synaesthesieforum.de/

Sinestesie.it Milano,
Italy Design Faculty,
Politecnico di Milano, Italy
http://www.sinestesie.it/

Sinnich
by Steffi Lindner
http://www.sinnich.de/

Sounding Art
by Jane Mackay
http://www.soundingart.com/

Synaesthesia
by Elizabeth A. Pector
http://www.geocities.com/synspectrum/synesthesia.html

Synaesthesia, Experiment and Research
by dr. Hugo
http://www.doctorhugo.org/synaesthesia/index.htm

Synaesthesia Movies
by Gerard Leckey
http://www.organ.ca/~gerard/syn.html

Synaesthesia Research Center Waterloo, Canada
University of Waterloo, Canada
http://www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/~src/home.htm

Synaesthesia Research Hanover
Hanover Medical School
http://www.synenglish.psychoman.info/index

Synaesthesia Research Team East London University of East London, UK http://www.uel.ac.uk/psychology/research/synaesthesia/

Synaesthesiewerkstatt
by Christine Soeffing
http://www.synaesthesiewerkstatt.de/

Synellisten
by Marcus Zedler
http://www.synaesthesie.net/

Synesthesia, Art and Music
by Michael Haverkamp
http://www.michaelhaverkamp.mynetcologne.de/synaesthesie%20engl.htm

The Synesthesia Battery
by David M. Eagleman
http://www.synesthete.org

Synesthesia China
by Hung Wanyu
http://syn6th.com/

Synesthesia Sweden
by Christian Liljeberg
http://www.synestesi.se

Synesthetes websites
by Pat Duffy
Synaesthesia Websites

Synesthetics: Synesthesia in Science and Art
by Crétien van Campen
http://www.synesthesie.nl

Sinestesia e arte sinestetica
by Daniela Alexandra Bruni
http://www.rodoni.ch/busoni/pittura/sinestesiaeartesinestetica/articolo3.html

Synesthesia Page
by Richard Cytowic
http://cytowic.net/

Synesthesia Research Group (University College London)
by Jamie Ward et al.
http://www.psychol.ucl.ac.uk/jamie.ward/synaesthesia.htm

Synesthesie. A Virtual Revue on Contemporary Art, Paris
http://www.synesthesie.com/

Synesthesia and Synesthetic Experience
by Carol Steen, Karen Chenausky, and Adam Rosen
http://web.mit.edu/synesthesia/www/synesthesia.html

Synesthesie
by Verónica Burela & Irene Schönenberger, Université de Genève
http://tecfa.unige.ch/tecfa/teaching/UVLibre/9900/bin19/welcome.htm

Synthetic Synaesthesia
by Kristinn R Thòrisson
http://xenia.media.mit.edu/~kris/synthsyn.html

Synesthesia, Multimedia & the Caves of Altamira
http://msp.sfsu.edu/Instructors/rey/synesth.html

Tonecolor Visual Music Arts
by Greg Jalbert
http://www.imaja.com/change/tonecolor/

UCL Synaesthesia Research Group London
http://www.psychol.ucl.ac.uk/jamie.ward/synaesthesia.htm

UK Synaesthesia Association
http://www.uksynaesthesia.com/

Visual Sounds
by Timothy Laden
http://www.tblayden.com/Default.aspx?tabid=29

Visualizing Music & Sound - An Annotated Bibliography
by Craig Harris
http://leoalmanac.org/ wikipedia: synesthesia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia

wikipedia: synesthesia in art
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia_in_art