Synaesthetic Sound Synthesis

Synaesthesia as natual model for the 3-D-visualization of timbre

Paper, 49 pages (currently german only)

Abstract

Synaesthetic perception is now evident and has a great influence on european culture history since ancient world.

This project had the objective, to simulate my syaesthesia-subtype with parameters under inclusion of recent results of synaesthesia research. A main objective of the simulation is the use of synaesthetic phaenomena as extended visual soundparameters for musical instrument software and live-electronic performances.
The experimental visual musical instrument SYNALIZER which is based upon this theoretical work was realized with GUI in MaxMSP/Jitter as work-in-progress project.