[accessibleimage] Re: Paintings really can be heard, scientist says

Hi Peter and all,

I'm glad to be able to try theVoice and it's a fascinating idea, but my brain can't make sense of the sound output. I'm not sure if this means some of us need a lot of practice or training to do this, or whether some channels in various people's brains are more like superhighways than others.

I do get very vivid pictures from music and have associations between various series of things and colours/textures/patterns with, e.g., letters, numbers, months, days of the week, so to that extent I guess I have a mild form of synaesthesia, which I value highly. But it's not well enough developed to hear a painting by any means I've come across so far.

Perhaps it will take some fantastically complex rendering of the visuals to achieve this crossover, and maybe the method would have to be very customisable to achieve any kind of equal access. I have always loved Walt Disney's 'Fantasia', which mimics pretty closely the way my brain puts images to music - Stravinsky was extremely annoyed at this idea, I believe, and thought that music was pure and of itself, so it clearly takes all sorts of people to make a world.

Vince.

----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Meijer" <blindfold@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Friday, September 15, 2006 9:55 AM
Subject: [accessibleimage] Re: Paintings really can be heard, scientist says


Thanks for the article, Sylvie! Of course everyone can
hear a Kandinsky painting using The vOICe. One simply
downloads and imports an image file like the GIF image
at the direct URL

http://www.lk.cs.ucla.edu/LK/Presentations/facultylecture/img/kandinsky.yellow-red-blue.gif

and presses Control O for the image file requester.
What two synesthetes hear when seeing a Kandinsky
painting is probably often more different than what
two users of The vOICe hear, because there is a lot
of variability in natural synesthesia. What we are
ultimately after is a controlled form of synesthesia
that induces the visual perception of the original
image, such that you would really see the Kandinsky
painting from its associated sound, albeit without
color. It is still uncertain if this can be achieved.

Best wishes,

Peter Meijer


Seeing with Sound - The vOICe
http://www.seeingwithsound.com/winvoice.htm






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