Symposium Synesthesie

Today, the Orgelpark, in collaboration with IASAS (International Association for Synaesthetes, Artists, and Scientists), presents a symposium on synesthesia: seeing sounds, hearing smells, smelling colors. A famous synesthete was organist and composer Olivier Messiaen: he saw specific colors associated with specific sounds. Admission: Guest Friends only.

 

 

PROGRAMME

09.30 Opening

09.45 Keynote 1

                  Caro Verbeek & Hans Fidom: SMOUND

10.15 Session 1: Synesthesia in Context: Body, Mind, and Memory

                  Jörg Jewansky: Rediscovering Friedrich Mahling

                  Jasmin Sinha: Communicating synaesthetic experience

                  Aurore Dupont-Sagorin: Shaping sensation

11.00 Break: poster presentations

11.45 Session 2: Synaesthesia and music composition and practice

                  Eloise Whitehead: Synesthesia impacting music composition

                  Corin Anderson: Photisms: a live audiovisual performance

12.45 Break: poster presentations

14.15 Session 3: Variations in Synesthetic Experience

                  Gabrielle Thierry: Painting music

                  Greta Berman: Do most musicians have synesthesia?

                  Carol Steen: Syneasthesia, hypnagogic and hypnopomic perceptions

15.15 Session 4: Expressing sounds

                  Michael Haverkamp: Synesthetic approaches of painting of non-tonal souds

                  Stephanie Scheubeck: In meiner Haut (Under my skin)

                  Ng Kaili Zoe: How my synaesthesia wrote a song

16.00 Break: poster presentations

16.45 Session 5: Synaesthetic creation

                  Svetlana Rudenko: Geri Hahn Art DreaMR

                  Natalia Herrera-Pombero: The music of drawing

17.20 Keynote 2

                  Umut Eldem: Crossmodal and synesthetic principles in composition

17.50 Final music: Hans Fidom

18.00 Foyer: drinks