Synaesthesia in Digital Media
You see video and you hear audio. But have you ever seen sound, or heard video? This is the concept of synaesthesia, where constant stimulation of one sense can lead it to become intertwined with sensory responses to another sense. Some people (though an extremely few amount) say they associate a certain smell when they see a color, or a slight tone when they see a certain image. It's an extremely interesting phenomenon that can be used in digital media or any kind of media for an incredible effect.
Most of us have probably never experienced it before, but in a small sense you could say synaesthetic elements have been around and experienced for a long time. Music videos all have images that correspond to a certain sound (such as a dance move to a certain beat), and if the same movement keeps being interconnected to the same sound, your brain will begin to correspond that sound to that visual moment. Though not a complete synaesthetic experience in the phenomenon sense, some music videos can trigger a minimal synaesthetic experience. One of my favorite videos for this is Daft Punk's "Around the World":
Most of us have probably never experienced it before, but in a small sense you could say synaesthetic elements have been around and experienced for a long time. Music videos all have images that correspond to a certain sound (such as a dance move to a certain beat), and if the same movement keeps being interconnected to the same sound, your brain will begin to correspond that sound to that visual moment. Though not a complete synaesthetic experience in the phenomenon sense, some music videos can trigger a minimal synaesthetic experience. One of my favorite videos for this is Daft Punk's "Around the World":
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