Comments on: Sounds that smell http://www.musicofsound.co.nz/blog/sounds-that-smell OBSESSED WITH VIBRATING AIR MOLECULES Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:51:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Heidi http://www.musicofsound.co.nz/blog/sounds-that-smell#comment-281 Heidi Fri, 04 Apr 2008 05:07:47 +0000 http://substation.co.nz/blog/?p=269#comment-281 There is a decent book (1993) out about synesthesia called THE MAN WHO TASTED SHAPES. The author, Richard E. Cytowic, MD concludes that synesthesia may be a normal brain function that we all do, but that only a few people are actually aware of when they are doing it. I wonder if synesthesia is a throwback to our more primitive selves, because when my dog perceives a sound or smell on the wind, I often see him open his mouth as if he were trying to taste whatever he is receiving through other perceptive pathways. He just still knows how to perceive it. Maybe its from the holographic nature of our brains and the pathways between olfactory and oratory senses are either collapsed without border or intermingled, dimensionally. At any rate, I suddenly see concert audiences as Peter Max rainbow human chameleon illustrations with their heads tilted back and tongues extended catching butterfly notes of music emanating from an amphitheater. There is a decent book (1993) out about synesthesia called THE MAN WHO TASTED SHAPES. The author, Richard E. Cytowic, MD concludes that synesthesia may be a normal brain function that we all do, but that only a few people are actually aware of when they are doing it.

I wonder if synesthesia is a throwback to our more primitive selves, because when my dog perceives a sound or smell on the wind, I often see him open his mouth as if he were trying to taste whatever he is receiving through other perceptive pathways. He just still knows how to perceive it.

Maybe its from the holographic nature of our brains and the pathways between olfactory and oratory senses are either collapsed without border or intermingled, dimensionally.

At any rate, I suddenly see concert audiences as Peter Max rainbow human chameleon illustrations with their heads tilted back and tongues extended catching butterfly notes of music emanating from an amphitheater.

]]> By: Andrew http://www.musicofsound.co.nz/blog/sounds-that-smell#comment-280 Andrew Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:13:54 +0000 http://substation.co.nz/blog/?p=269#comment-280 Nice approach - it must make it so much more "real" for the actors to get a sense of the final production. Now if I could just find a small orchestra to follow me around through the day and provide a soundtrack! Nice approach – it must make it so much more “real” for the actors to get a sense of the final production.

Now if I could just find a small orchestra to follow me around through the day and provide a soundtrack!

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