Sound Recording, Synesthesia, and Cymatics

The sound recording process I had was interesting. I grew up watching a lot of behind the scenes for animated movies, and a majority of them involved Foley and other sound effects. So to me I've always thought of it as a fascinating process morphing one sound and transforming into something entirely different. So this was a pretty fun chance to make as many random sounds as I wanted to play around with. We spanned our sound recording process over 5 days, bouncing back and worth over who wanted to record what sounds they felt like recording. The sounds that we did record were very nature/every day occurrences. Occasionally we would have something like party noises or piano keys, but the majority of the sounds were pretty mundane. Which is not to say that this is bad. On the contrary, because these are suppose to be sounds available for the entire class, its pretty beneficial having rather simplistic sounds. This will allow the creator to really manipulate and form the sound into whatever they want, instead of the sound dictating to the creator.

While I am very unfamiliar with the practices of synesthesia and cymantics, I already find this fascinating. In my opinion music/sounds and images are so intertwined that even when you try to separate them, they always find a way of coming back together. You can play a song with no context, but your mind will try to create a painting of how the notes look or the images that accompany your feelings. So seeing images and patterns created by the sounds and beats themselves is a beautiful visual experience. It's more than just volume levels displayed, it's how how certain levels can create shapes and mandala like patterns and swirling motions.