An Eyeful of Sound trailer

This is a trailer for my short animated documentary 'An Eyeful of Sound. It is funded by the Wellcome Trust and has taken nearly 3 years to finish (!). It's about audio-visual synaesthesia and I collaborated with Dr Jamie Ward (a neuro-psychologist) and several people with synaesthesia to try and make a film about what it's like to have this condition.

You can read more about the film here:
eyefulofsound.blogspot.com

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• synaesthesia
• synesthesia
• Eyeful of sound
• animation
• animated documentary

[SamMooreanimate]

Interesting question! I think that if you are unknowingly synaesthetic then it might be an opportunity to realise it. Synaesthetes' brains are wired differently though, with neural pathways between sense centres in their brain where the rest of us don't have them, which is why true synaesthesia cannot be acquired.

[SamMooreanimate]

That's good to hear, thank you! I worked on the film with three people with synaesthesia and one neuro-psychologist who specialises in synaesthesia. I'm really glad to hear positive feedback from a synaesthestic person!

best wishes

Sam

[HeartlessArchAngel69]

I do This, music can be both wonderful and painfull at times!

and dont even get me started on what I see when i go to the mall!

I also get migranes from smells because I smell in colour!

[smartsight]

Interesting video clip! I am not synaesthetic, but wonder if watching more of this kind of material for some period of time might "awaken" any latent synaesthesia in non-synaesthetes, perhaps by boosting normally suppressed awareness. Of course different synaesthetes have different mappings between their senses such that example renderings cannot be entirely universal.

[livefortoday17]

I would love to see this ^_^

I have synesthesia as well, and watching this was weirdly accurate. Not so much in that I experience the same things, but in the relationship between hearing and seeing being represented extremely well.