Synthesized Synesthesia #MusicMonday

As the monologist Frank Wortham once wrote: “Rothko, Van Gogh, Picasso — like Buddy Rich they stitched color in time, reds and yellows and blues, blocked like beats!” For those who experience synesthesia, information that stimulates one of your sense can turn into a multi-sensory experience. A Rothko might be drumbeats — and a Kandinsky might be a symphony.

Google Arts & Culture has teamed up with the Centre Pompidou, a cultural complex in Paris, on a project called ‘Play a Kandinsky’ that allows users to experience the painter’s work as he did. Here’s more from Engadget:

“When Kandinsky painted, two senses worked systematically together: hearing and sight,” Serge Lasvignes, president of the Centre Pompidou, wrote in a blog post. “Colors and shapes translated into sounds, harmonies, and vibrations made up lines and patterns.” He heard red as a violin and yellow as a trumpet, for instance.

For the “Play a Kandinsky” experiment, Google and the center recruited experimental musicians Antoine Bertin and NSDOS in an attempt to convey what Kandinsky may have heard while creating his art. They analyzed notes from Kandinsky about the synesthetic effects he felt and tried to replicate the sounds that the artist may have encountered while painting his 1925 piece “Yellow Red Blue.”

See more!

Play a Kandinsky


Adafruit publishes a wide range of writing and video content, including interviews and reporting on the maker market and the wider technology world. Our standards page is intended as a guide to best practices that Adafruit uses, as well as an outline of the ethical standards Adafruit aspires to. While Adafruit is not an independent journalistic institution, Adafruit strives to be a fair, informative, and positive voice within the community – check it out here: adafruit.com/editorialstandards

Join Adafruit on Mastodon

Adafruit is on Mastodon, join in! adafruit.com/mastodon

Stop breadboarding and soldering – start making immediately! Adafruit’s Circuit Playground is jam-packed with LEDs, sensors, buttons, alligator clip pads and more. Build projects with Circuit Playground in a few minutes with the drag-and-drop MakeCode programming site, learn computer science using the CS Discoveries class on code.org, jump into CircuitPython to learn Python and hardware together, TinyGO, or even use the Arduino IDE. Circuit Playground Express is the newest and best Circuit Playground board, with support for CircuitPython, MakeCode, and Arduino. It has a powerful processor, 10 NeoPixels, mini speaker, InfraRed receive and transmit, two buttons, a switch, 14 alligator clip pads, and lots of sensors: capacitive touch, IR proximity, temperature, light, motion and sound. A whole wide world of electronics and coding is waiting for you, and it fits in the palm of your hand.

Have an amazing project to share? The Electronics Show and Tell is every Wednesday at 7pm ET! To join, head over to YouTube and check out the show’s live chat – we’ll post the link there.

Join us every Wednesday night at 8pm ET for Ask an Engineer!

Join over 36,000+ makers on Adafruit’s Discord channels and be part of the community! http://adafru.it/discord

CircuitPython – The easiest way to program microcontrollers – CircuitPython.org


Maker Business — Making sure the CHIPS act isn’t just crumbs

Wearables — Our little secret to weather-proofing your projects

Electronics — Meaningful gains

Python for Microcontrollers — Python on Microcontrollers Newsletter: New Thonny and Git Versions, Plenty of Projects and More! #CircuitPython #Python #micropython @ThePSF @Raspberry_Pi

Adafruit IoT Monthly — Guardian Robot, Weather-wise Umbrella Stand, and more!

Microsoft MakeCode — MakeCode Thank You!

EYE on NPI — Maxim’s Himalaya uSLIC Step-Down Power Module #EyeOnNPI @maximintegrated @digikey

New Products – Adafruit Industries – Makers, hackers, artists, designers and engineers! — JP’s Product Pick of the Week 6/6/23 ADS1x15 16-bit and 12-bit ADC Breakouts @adafruit @johnedgarpark #adafruit #newproductpick

Get the only spam-free daily newsletter about wearables, running a "maker business", electronic tips and more! Subscribe at AdafruitDaily.com !



No Comments

No comments yet.

Sorry, the comment form is closed at this time.