An Eyeful of Sound

An Eyeful of Sound is a 10 minute animated documentary about audio-visual synaesthesia. It is directed by Samantha Moore, produced by Joshka Wessels at Sapiens Productions and the scientific advisor is Dr Jamie Ward from the University of Sussex, UK. Synaesthesia describes a joining together of sensations that are normally experienced separately. Synaesthetic people may experience tastes, colours, shapes, smells or touches in tandem with almost any of their other senses. This project, funded by the Wellcome Trust's arts award, involves working with audio-visual synaesthetes - people who ‘see’ music. "I saw this most beautiful sound, it was just gorgeous ... beautiful reds, yellows and purples... My mum said it was the cock crowing ... my first real memory of the wonderful visual sounds that I experience" (Julie Roxburgh, describing an early synaesthetic memory)

images from R&D project 'Seeing Sound'