Hearing glass : synesthetic correspondences in music-based audiovisual art
Umut Eldem · 2024
Hearing Glass is a research on the role of synesthesia and crossmodality in music-based audiovisual art. Weaving through the traditions of visual music, audiovisual instruments, and generative art, the project unfolds into a unique musical and audiovisual composition style. The phenomenon of sound-color synesthesia, the experience of colors upon hearing sound, is the starting point of the research. An analysis of the works of synesthetic composers and audiovisual art reveals insights into novel concepts and techniques that bring sound and vision together in the compositional practice. The practice of audiovisual composition is then combined with new technology and creative coding in order to create performances, installations, and fixed-media works that contain synesthetic microcosms. This research explores the transdisciplinary space between senses and disciplines, and the positioning of the musician and composer in this vast sea.