Synaesthesia is an eyecandy program that represents music graphically in real time as coruscating fields of fog and glowing lines. It is intended as a visual accompaniment to music. Its display combines information about the frequency, location and diffuseness of sound. It can take input from CD, line, piped from another program, or from EsounD. It also functions as a CD player.
One feeling or perception described with words usually used for a totally different or opposite feeling or perception. Ex: "The sky smelled blue." "The soft hum of fog."
A particular example of cross-modal or transfunctional neural action seen, e.g., in the perception by some individuals of colours systematically associated with differing (musical) sounds.
a sensation that normally occurs in one sense modality occurs when another modality is stimulated
(Gk. syn 'together' + aisthesis 'sense-impression'; Ápı): Close association or confusion of sense impressions. The result is essentially a metaphor, transferring qualities of one sense to another, e.g. a 'loud color'.
Synaesthesia is a sensation produced in one physical sense when a stimulus is applied to another physical sense, as when the hearing of a certain sound induces the visualisation of a certain colour.
when two rep systems interact in such a way as to seem simultaneous, though in actuality one very closely precedes the other. Eg an auditory/visual synesthesia would mean that hearing sounds (like music) would create an image, so rapidly as to seem instantaneous.