ColorSound Design
Multi-Sensory Designs
The ColorSound Designer is a vast multi-sensory language used to find synergistic connections between various art forms. The translation logic incorporates personal aesthetics with scientific connections to give countless options for artistic inspiration and perspective to all different levels of the creative spectrum.
The ColorSound Designer can be used at any stage of your project to provide creative ideas. For a music video, one can develop the music first and then add visuals later, or one can simultaneously develop the visuals and the music to produce the most impactful audiovisual concept or composition. As the audio and the visuals have an effect on each other, developing both with the intention of a synergistic effect will give the best multi-sensory result.
Audiographical Language of Music and Art and Movement
If we could see music, what would it look like? If we could hear a painting, what would it sound like? These questions have been asked by artists and scientists for thousands of years. Thinkers since Aristotle have pondered and researched the connection between art and music, and have offered many interpretations.
Sir Isaac Newton discovered similarities between the wavelengths of color and tone and devised a color-tone scale. Walt Disney’s Fantasia intentionally explores the aestheoscientific connections between sight and sound. Dance is a visual expression of music, as a poem is a worddance.
For some with synesthesia, music is seen as patterns of light unique to each individual. In our everyday lives, filmmakers use music, colors, and other graphics for a synergistic effect with scientific control of our emotional reactions.
ColorSound Theory
The word ColorSound refers to the idea that colors and sounds are of similar nature. They are the stimulus to which we perceive and react. Together they are both audio (sound) and graphical (color) – audiographical. Everything we see comes to us as patterns of color, and everything we hear comes to us as patterns of sound.
The similar patterns in color and sound relate creating unique multi-sensory harmonies. Other disciplines fit into this interconnectedness such as touch, kinesthetic movements, written languages, and mathematics which all share similar patterns.
ColorSound maintains that the study of the Arts, all art forms, is synonymous with the study of all the perceptions of sights, sounds, and feelings of our reality. In the realm of the arts fits everything we can perceive or imagine; thus we can study perception through the study of the arts.
ColoSound Theory Detail
- Related harmonies of sight and sound evoke parallel psychophysiological reactions. There is a universal constant of the related element harmonies of different modes of perception.
- Harmony is the quality of the reaction of two or more things coexisting and affecting one another. This quality of the reaction spans disharmony (unrest) and inharmony (rest).
- Science determines through mathematical measurement and calculation how two or more things relate to a state of harmony.
- Music theory is applied to art theory through perceptual laws that stem directly from the physical and emotional properties of sight, sound, touch, and movement.
- Individuals perceive harmonies differently; thus the universal constant incorporates different points of reference.