Synesthesia is a neurological state, due to which the famous abstractionist artist Vasily Kandinsky heard the colors and shapes of objects through the sound.
When the artist saw yellow, he heard the pipes. Restless violins played from contemplation of red in his head. Blue carried with me the sounds of the soothing organ. Imagine what unusual symphonies sounded at Kandinsky in the head, when he splashed paint on canvas.
Project "Playing Kandinsky" (Play A Kandinsky)
The new project of Google Arts & Culture allows everyone to go beyond his imagination and hear what the artist may have heard. An interactive tool gives a listener with an unusual composition under the contemplation of the painting of 1925 "Yellow, Red, Blue". Click on the image to hear the musical composition, which consists of 7 parts.
How to do it?
Step-by-step instruction:
- Download from Play Market Google Arts & Culture and install it on your smartphone.
- Click the search button (magnifying glass icon) and enter the Kandinsky. It is more convenient than looking for manually among more than 800 works.
- The application will report a result of the search. Now you need to go to the picture "Yellow, Red, Blue" and run an interactive file for execution.
For interaction you need to hover the cursor. Depending on which element of the picture is under it, a melody sounds. The color and form of objects are taken into account. The work may turn out to be soothing or actively explosive, simple or complex. Over music worked french musicians-experimenters Antoine Berthen and NSDOS. Pictures are provided by Pompidou Center.
What is the basis of a musical composition? In the archive of Kandinsky there was a collection of music records. With its help, modern musicians have formed an idea of what the artist loved and what kind of music he liked. Based on this data, they created their sound row.
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