Seeing Sounds:
A Chromesthesia Concert (2019)

       

This was a sold-out show in Chetham’s Carole Nash Hall, which aimed to directly visualise the experience of having chromesthesia, a neurological condition which causes people to see sounds and music as colours in front of their eyes.. The show was part musical concert, part science communication – a string quartet performed four pieces of music, directly visualised by new technology which I developed, which analyses audio and outputs it as coloured light.


“Seeing Sounds: A Chromesthesia Concert”, was developed as part of
Manchester Science Festival.

You can hear the audio from that performance of the show here:



Prior to the concert, I spent years developing the technology.

As part of my master’s degree, I built a system which analyses audio input and outputs it as light in any way the user wants.

Here are some examples - in these videos, the software converts pitch to colour, and loudness to brightness:









And here’s another example, in which I use coloured bells to control the colour of the  lights:



This was all used for my final MA piece, Circles:





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