
Monday, November 17, 2008
Thursday, September 4, 2008
Rhodium - fresher than woolworths.
Sunday, August 24, 2008
Back.

Well, where have you been?
Answer is nowhere special, I've just been engaged in some all-consuming endeavours.
The Synergy Project was a fascinating fortnight of self-reassurance, for photos and stuff follow the link in my profile.
Quite seperately I took an aerosol art workshop at DaKlinic. Link right there in my list. Definitely worth the time, as I came away with a much better grasp on the aesthetics of graffiti. I might never be a master of this artform, but I wasn't about to walk away from it understanding nothing.
I'm waiting you know, for the special episode of my life, where we step over to the alternate universe, and I'm actually a really good artist, who's work sells more than once a year.
Saturday, June 21, 2008
A word on musical ability.
In the recent past I've had a number of conversations regarding coloured hearing and making music. People tell me it should be easier for me than other people because I can see the sound. I think that would be true, if I had note->colour. Those lucky ppl have perfect pitch. You play em a D flat they know it's a D flat because it's green. or whatever. They know the next notes are an E and F, because they're teal and blue, or whatever.
I don't. They're all blue, because you played the notes on a piano. The thing about timbre->colour is that while the non-synesthete next to me hears the three notes and appreciates that they're different, I do the same, but my brain also tells me that they're all blue. Two notes from the same instrument will always be nearly the same colour to me, which really doesnt help me to tell what's an A sharp and what's a F.
This is the sort of thing I'd love to discuss with synesthete musicians, and perhaps one day I will be able to.
I don't. They're all blue, because you played the notes on a piano. The thing about timbre->colour is that while the non-synesthete next to me hears the three notes and appreciates that they're different, I do the same, but my brain also tells me that they're all blue. Two notes from the same instrument will always be nearly the same colour to me, which really doesnt help me to tell what's an A sharp and what's a F.
This is the sort of thing I'd love to discuss with synesthete musicians, and perhaps one day I will be able to.
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