Synesthesia

So Synesthesia is when the brain mixes up visual, sound and taste, as in someone watches colors when listening to music? Well, who needs acid with a condition like that?! I think that so cool and if I had it I would save so much money, just kidding. But I can see how this ability would give painter and other visual artisans an edge considering that they would be surrounded by their art form of choice (color from music, color in grapheme, etc) and it would provide an unless supple of inspiration.
People with grapheme to color synesthesia, I can imagine how much color their lives contain in a day to day basis. Imagine opening a text book or newspaper and finds a rich display of color, which would give a whole new meaning to the idea of picture book. I guess they would be the only people who could see any real artistic relevance in Stephenie Meyer's writings. As for people with music to color synesthesia, every song is a fireworks show, a plethora of colors and movements in perfect rhythm with every song on their ipod play list, I don’t think there is an app for that. The only down side to this would be having to sit through an amateurish attempt to match dull spotted color ejaculations with cliché music from the 80s and 90s every Fourth of July.
The medium to most accurately show how a person with Synesthesia experiences music would be film. Over painting, which is a singular frame representing a single note is belittled in comparison to the shifting composed quality of a film’s voice. So I guess that’s what my goal should be in this class, to match music to color to inspire a since of wonder and astonishment to the audience. I found it especially innovated that Marcia Smilack uses her Synesthesia to capture memorable photographs. That she relies on her Synesthesia over her own ability to perceive beauty to express herself through her art. I wonder if this same notion could be applied to cinematography with narrative films? Her motto, beauty is lurking, is quite the quintessential goal of photographers, who “takes” a photo. This is in contras to cinematography, where the idea is to “make” a photo. So a motto as deep and catchy as, beauty is lurking, should be taken with a grain of salt.