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A Synesthete Sees Loom

Animation A Synesthete Sees Loom: Ann LePore’s visualization of Geri Hahn’s Experience with Max Waves’ score Loom, presented at Artecitta VII, University of Granada, Spain.

Cross-Modal Perception Series

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Recently I found out that the way I experience time is a form of synesthesia. Previously I always assumed this cross-modal perception only happened to the rare few who could see music or hear colors. Now I am happy to be collaborating with two synesthetes: Geri Hahn who sees music and other sounds very vividly, and Dr. Svetlana Rudenko, a neuroscientist, also a synesthete, and composer. I have created this animation “Synaesthesia edit01” to describe the motions and colors that Geri sees when she listens to Dr. Rudenko’s Dancing Textures composition. Read more