SYNESTHESIA - Animation by Michel Gagné / Music by Gheorghe Costinescu
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- Опубликовано: 9 фев 2025
- In the summer of 2013, composer Gheorghe Costinescu commissioned artist Michel Gagné to create an animated abstract visualization based on his 1973 work, "Dots, Lines, and Patches for recorded electronic sounds". This film is the result.
One of the best representations of what Synesthesia is like.
It's interesting watching someone else's experiences with synesthesia. I'm seeing something entirely different listening to this video, and the dissonance between what i'm hearing and seeing is super interesting
This is beautiful. I just found out I had Synesthesia (Before I always thought everyone associated colors and smells with names letters and numbers, saw and heard sounds, and heard colors)- I recently finished a book A Mango Shaped Space, and I had asked a few friends and family about numbers with personalities, letters with colors, and names with smells. I got no other reaction than "No, you are crazy." I have also been watching another RUclips channel, Echo Gillette, and I've heard her mention Michael Gagne quite a few times, so I decided to check him out for myself. As soon as I found this video, I was so happy to find that there are actually other people that understand me and can relate to my everyday experience. I loved this video, and I thought it was a beautiful representation of what it feels like to have Synesthesia. Whew, that was quite a slab of text- whoever made it through to the end of this, good for you, you get 100 Awesome Points.
Because I have a more mild form of synesthesia I never really thought much about it in my life before I just thought "That's just how the world is" and I thought it was a normal thing. After 21 years of my life I learned it wasn't normal at all and realized that I had synesthesia. Then I thought something was wrong with me, and my sister shared this video with me and I nearly cried, cause that's a lot of what it's like for me (not exactly, but close). I guess I'm not so alone. Thank you for this video.
Mr. Gagne you have reached the heights of a trully audiovisual legend, my hat is off to you sir!
It is absolutely amazing what happens when two brilliant artists in two different mediums sync....
What a wonderfully sophisticated imagination!
Thank you, sir.
Its like some kind of electronic Fantasia. Excellent work as usual :)
When I hear music, a voice, or anything, my mind comes up with shapes. Not colors, just shapes and patterns. Sometimes they'll go around me, and I keep my eyes open and I look at it, even though nothing is really there. Sometimes I'll close my eyes and think of all the shapes and patterns. I like this video! It doesn't portray what I see (obviously), but it's still pretty cool!!
Synesthesia is one of my favorite conditions I've heard of after i read A Mango Shaped Space.
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Do you have synesthesia yourself?
I also see patterns when I listen to music. when I'm listening to music I am standing in the middle of a room which is so big it seems eternal. then every sound is a pattern going up or down and when I focus on a pattern I see a thousand new patterns. It's really awesome to have this but it's so hard to explain :(
It's really quite weird to watch someone else's patterns on the screen while my own are going on in my head. But I don't think I could make something like this because whenever I look at a shape or a pattern it changes so quickly and I can't remember how it looked unless the sound is still playing.
Wow! Very impressive, now that's audio/visual synchronization!
This is actually super cool to watch. I’m comparing it to my own animation and I see a lot of similarities
Your experience of synesthesia is one of the closest to mine I've seen, especially with the tempo and textures and movement. This was awesome to watch; I'm an animator in the game design field right now, so I know how long this took you- amazing job 😮
Wow, thank you!
Amazing!! Love it! 🤩
You have reached the greatness that was Chuck Jones' short about the dot and the line (cannot remember the title right now).
It was called "The Dot and The Line: a romance in lower mathematics".
Christopher Sobieniak
Thanks, I wasn't 100% sure that was the name.
I loved the "The Dot and The Line: a romance in lower mathematics" when I was in college. Haven't seen it in years but it did leave a strong impression at the time.
Michel Gagne Used to play on the Turner networks down here many times (TNT, TBS, Cartoon Network).
Good to see you this. Love your work.
Wonderful!
this is really just, cool!
Nice work
I love Rex! : )
Beautiful!!
Gorgeus!!!
This is so cool. I wonder if Len Lye is an influence.
Michel Gagne
=Simply Awesome! You are my idol Michel Gagnè=
=You still use the software "Toon Boom" or you migrated to another animation program to make this animation?=
I used Photophop, Animo, Toon Boom, After Effects and Premiere.
In that order?
Really nice.
Great video that I hate because I don't 'agree'😄👍
The Experimental Era Animation
Do you have synesthesia? What program do you use to animate that?? I have synesthesia and I'm a animation and film student, I'm making my titulation project about synesthesia and I'm very interest about that
I love Michel Gagné and I love this piece, but I don't think he has synesthesia. The sounds in the beginning are very similar, but are varying a lot visually. while this is very effective from an animation and direction standpoint, it betrays that it may not be his internal experience. synesthesia is not always well-designed and part of how it can be 'diagnosed' is by its consistency. not that each sound should be copy-pasted animation, but if that wobble noise is staying roughly the same volume and pitch i personally do not experience it changing color and especially not shape or texture. i don't really know what my point is, because i think this film is gorgeous and I'm actually not critical of it. I love the crackly-sounds as these bands of pattern, that feels 'accurate' (in quotes because every synesthete has a different, but consistent experience). the same general group of sounds is used throughout, but the visual style shifts drastically and seemingly at random? plus there are visual elements not tied to any sound, or repeated with very different sounds.. anyway. i just want to explain a little more about what synesthesia feels like, and say that overall this piece comes VERY close to describing the experience to people who do not see sounds. even my own sound visualizing animations aren't completely accurate because it is such an abstract thing.
You are correct. This film was a commission, planned and executed following a very methodical manner. My other abstract film, Sensology, which was done as a stream of consciousness exercise is much closer to a real synesthetic experience.
My synethesia is more like this: www.carriecfirman.com/img/work/synesthesia/formconstants.jpg But I liked the movie anyway. :)
Intriguing
But the colors are transparent or a person with synesthesia gets blind during sounds?
It's got Your style alright.
Conjugaison image + son = excellente ; l'une sans l'autre : moins bien ( j'ai fait l'essai ) !
I wish I could make animations. I want to show people what I see
These sounds are gonna give me nightmares
You are one of my heroes in animation however I guessed I expected more. I have seen something like this in 3D animation done in the early 90s It is good but as I said, I expected more. Isn't this just more of the same of what you did with Berry Guy and Paul Plimley?
EPILEPSY WARNING
lenguaje en otro idioma
Ratatouille
Really lame!