Saturday, 21 March 2009

An Eyeful of Sounds - Samantha Moore


Samantha Moore is an Independent Film maker who makes animated documentaries. Funded by the Wellcome Trust she developed a short film entitled An Eyeful of Sound with
composer Adam Goddard and Producer Joshka Wessels.


The film is based on research developed with Jamie Ward (head of a synesthesia research group at Sussex University, UK) and several audio-visual synesthetes. The film shows the responses of people with audio-visual synesthesia to musical notes. You can see an example of some of her work on her website:


http://www.samanthamoore.co.uk/

Saturday, 7 March 2009

Solenne Morigeaud - The “Synesthebag”



Solene is a surface designer who has done a survey related to synesthesia aiming to allow non-synesthetes to experience some aspects of synesthesia and to generally inform on the condition
She has taken concepts of synesthesia into the area of design using textured materials to create the “Synesthebag” (right).
She says about herself “I am a long term ‘challenge of perceptions and clashes of senses’ interested designer”
See more on the Synesthebag at:
http://textilefutures.co.uk/exchange/bin/view/TextileFutures/SolenneMorigeaudSamsonite