WEIRD CONNECTIONS

What about connecting a particular taste to a specific word? Seeing letters and numbers colored? Or every time you hear a sound, you see a particular color? Synesthesia is a neurological condition that makes weird connections between different senses, and forces unusual metaphors to dominate the perception of the world. Weird Connections visualize sound to illustrate the color and sound synesthesia. Based on synesthetic tendencies bright colors are related to high pitch and dark color to low pitch. Go ahead and explore how sound is related to color. Explore the colors of your voice!

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This is an interactive installation design for the Norsk Teknisk Museum for a special exhibition called “Mind the Gap” about the mind and brain. The theme of the project is Synesthesia, which is a neurological condition that mix senses. There is more than 60 kinds of synesthesia, and we decided to focus on one : the mix of sound with colors. We based our installation on the synestetic tendency of relating low pitch sounds with dark colors and high pitch sounds with bright colors, and also relating volume with size; louder-bigger and lower-smaller.

Based on a processing code that recognizes sound as input through a microphone, and gives beautiful motion graphics as an output!

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This project won the AHO graphic design award, being nominated to the B-CITY/BILBAO/BIZAKIA GLOCAL DESIGN AWARDS to participate in the graphic design category. There is no much info about this competition, all we know for now is that is closed and just invited selected people can participate, and we’re one of the lucky ones!

More info coming asap, and a better video as well (this one is produced the last night…..)

All credits shared with Ine !