Art Synaesthesia Course in Beijing Middle School

Art Synaesthesia Course in Beijing Middle School

Edited by Andi XIONG

Introduction: CCTV News network team were at Beijing No.24 Middle School on May 31^st 2017 for the program “visiting the school closed to your home”, where new courses were introduced with excellent examples in education. Vice director of Education Committee Ms. YOU Na, President of No. 24 Middle School Mr. Niu Xiao Hua entered Art Synaesthesia Classroom with CCTV Journalist. This project has been developed jointly by teacher Ms. JIANG Xin, LIU Liyun, XU Qing and ZHANG Na with Mr. Ninghui XIONG, the father of one student. What demonstrated here were the artworks of the students inspired and created after recent activity for “travel learning” by school, including poetry, painting and music combination in a culture tradition way in China, where synaesthesia concept had been introduced.

Following the theory and supported by Ninghui, the project team created a new way of education from single discipline category mode to interdisciplinary mode to combine literature, art and music together. For those students after training, their performance in “activity of travel learning to the south cities”, has demonstrated excellent result in creative sense, smart learning and good memory as an achievement shown here during CCTV interview program.

Visual interpretations of Maurice Ravel's Bolero 

by Ninghio Xiong (left) and Timothy Layden (right). 

Comparing the Shape of Sounds

Comparing the Shape of Sounds research 

 Dr Timothy B Layden, Christine Söffing and  Klaus Schmidtke

Christine Söffing and Timothy B Layden both have sound to shape synaesthesia and have done comparative experiments using specific sound stimuli to create drawings of the shapes they see with these sounds. Their initial results revealed strong correspondences, which peeked their interest and brought forth further questions. To answer some of these questions they broadened their experiments of sound drawing to a wider group, including other synaesthetes, artists, musicians and adolescents. This on going research will continue through investigation involving attendees to the V Congress on synaesthesia, science and art taking place in Spain, May 2015. The results of their experiments will be compared with previous research to find further correspondences and other interesting findings. Their results are presented in relation to their own synaesthetic experiences of sound and how it is used in their art practices. The questions around the synaesthetic experience of the shape of sounds and the results of Söffing, Layden and Schmidkte's initial experiments are described within this paper, opening doors for further discussion and questions around this subject.

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Living Out Loud: The Art of Geri Hahn

Living Out Loud: The Art of Geri Hahn

High Five Nick Didkovsky 2: 

After hearing Nick play Didkovsky with Zinc Nine Psychedelic, including Dave Ballou and Kevin Norton

An afternoon with interesting woman friends:  

"Drawn after spending an afternoon with interesting women friends. Each is a different flavor of deliciousness.  Part of my synesthesia is to “taste” the essence of things and people I find beautiful-not like vanilla -more like eating sculpture – still very satisfying!"