All of the Colors of the...Senses..."R1" Media Response

Notes on the "R1" Media Readings

• Synesthesia: a neurological phenomenon in which stimulation of one's sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathways. 
• Synesthesia vs. Ideashesia vs. Chromesthesia 
• Colors and numbers/lettters 
• Forms: 
• Grapheme-color synesthesia 
• Chromesthesia
• Criteria 
1. Involuntary and automatic 
2. Spatially extended (have a sense of "location")
3. Consistent and generic 
4. Highly memorable 
5. Laden with affect 
• Evan Grant: Making sound through visible cymatics 
• Cymatics: the process of visualizing sound by basically vibrating a medium, such as sand or water. 
• History of Cymatics: Da Vinci, Galileo, Robert Hook, Ernest Chladini
• Term coined by Hans Jenny in the 1970s 
• John Stewart Reed-present day expert
• Sound does have form
• Cymatics had influence on the formation of the universe itself 
• Daniel Tammet: Different ways of knowing 
• Autistic Savant 
• Perception: different kinds of perceiving create different kinds of knowing and understanding 
• Intuition 
• Aesthetic judgements rather than abstract meaning guide and shape the process by which we all come to know what we know 
• Synesthesia: an unusual cross-talk between the senses 
• Words can have colors and emotions, numbers, shapes and personalities.