I first researched Kandinsky, the example artist given on the brief. Some people believe he had a rare condition called Synaesthesia where by a persons senses are cross wired so that when using one sense, they experience another as well. In Kandinsky's case, when hearing sound he would see colours and shapes, and vice verse. Kandinsky painted in a way that had never been done before as his work was completely abstract. I like his use of shape and bold lines to represent sound.
Daniel Tammet also has this rare condition as well as high functioning autism and savant syndrome. He see numbers as colours and shapes and below is his painting of a mathematical equation as he sees it.
Georgia O'Keefe's paintings often depict abstract forms in nature. Music Pink and Blue No.2 however translates the forms she herd in music. Her style of painting is a huge contrast to the angular geometric shapes in Kandinsky's work, yet they both use similar soft colours to represent what they hear. I think when experimenting with my own work, contrasting between soft and bold colour will be a good way to translate the dynamics that I hear in music.
Neil Harbisson is completely colour blind and sees the world in black and white. Scientists have inserted a chip into his brain that receives information from a camera he wears on his head. The camera recognises the colour and the chip translates different colours into sound which Neil then hears. His brain has now adapted so that when hearing sound he hears the colour. Below are two of his pieces, both of which are the colours he heard when listening to the famous speeches of two different political figures. One was by Martin Luther King, and the other by Adolf Hitler.
Neil Harbisson- Famous speech designs
Georgia O'Keefe- Music Pink and Blue No.2, 1918
Kandinsky- Unbroken Line, 1923
Daniel Tammets math equation depicted by shape and colour
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