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This is probably the most complete list of sources on the subject of synæsthesia, compiled by Crétien van Campen. It includes web sites, on-line publications, and printed scholarly works.
The Reith Lectures were inaugurated in 1948 by the BBC to mark the historic contribution made to public service broadcasting by Sir John (later Lord) Reith, the corporation's first director-general. The subect of this year's lecture series is The Emerging Mind .
Vilayanur S Ramachandran is Director of the Centre for Brain and Cognition and professor with the Psychology Department and the Neurosciences Programme at the University of California, San Diego. He is also Adjunct Professor of Biology at the Salk Institute.
Patricia
Duffy's Synesthesia Resource Center
This site, built around Duffy's book on synæsthesia, Blue Cats and Chartreuse Kittens, is a hub for the "synæsthesia community. It includes scientific reports, articles and transcripts of past symposia.
The coolest site ever on this subject, by Tonino Tornitore, a professor of literature in Genoa, Italy. Tornitore's points might be regarded as a near-manifesto of interests for this symposium: to see synæsthesia at the heart of perception, expression, and thought.
Doug
Fitch and Mimi Oka present: Orphic Feasts.
Edible art has been a perennial theme since the 16th century, but just how to do it and preserve the allure of food with the provocation of art is a real trick, mastered (apperently) by this artist team. From the web site: "Oka and Fitch met while working on the Hasty Pudding Theatricals at Harvard University. Fitch was attired in a white frilly pinafore , and Oka was carving stalagmites from foam. After graduating, Oka went on to a career in banking, and Fitch went on to design houses, chairs and theater. Independently they both learned cooking at La Varenne Cooking School in Paris. Oka honed her skills as a personal chef in Paris, and took a degree in professional Japanese kaiseki cooking at the Ecole Culinaire Kunitachi, Japan, Fitch started a business in the Philippines producing design objects with a unique terrazzo-like resin technique. Fourteen years after their encounter backstage, Fitch and Oka bumped into each other on the streets of Tokyo. Their mutual interest in the intersection between art and food led to small absurdist experimental dinners which led to larger ones which led to the idea of writing a book about all the things they hadn't yet done but were planning to."
A varied collection of sources and links to organizations.
Psyche: Synesthesia chez R. E.
Cytowic
An on-line journal with a special issue on synæsthesia. The text is by Richard E. Cytowic, a leading authority on synæsthesia.
Massimo Giantoli's WIZARP studio specializes in spectales involving synesthesia and technology. One project integrates sound, movement, and shape: "Four green communicating rooms, surrounded by sounds and noises, produced by man and processed through digital technology mingle with proper nature sounds in a journey preceeding from the chaos to the stillness."
. . . from the album, Shut up and Sing. Permission to use pending, but the song is very catchy. Please support their efforts and buy a Bobs CD.
Mark Ballora
Mark Ballora transforms data from the heart and blood into music that can be used in diagnosing medical conditions. Using digital technology to create a "music of the body" affords physicians the chance to "visualize through sound" subtle differences that would be unnoticed in statistical analysis.
Heather Carson uses light not just to give theater audiences a way to see the show; she molds forms, landscapes, events, and dreams out of colored light, using screens, meshes, landscapes, and architectural forms to make the source itself an object of desire.