I hadn't heard of senesthesia before reading these articles. Its a really interesting phenomenon. It was especially interesting to read that it is an actual scientifically documented field. At first I thought the artists were just trying to force the synthete experiences through their art work, but I didn't realize they were actually experiencing something beyond their control.
I liked the paintings from the synthetes like Carol Steen and Anny Salz, it was cool to be able to get a glimpse of what they experience on a daily basis. Though as I am not a synthete I really couldn't get much out of it beyond how cool it was that they were feeling sensations beyond what exists in reality. It was also interesting to see that there are artworks meant to invoke synthesia in non synthetes. Sadly, I have not seen Fantasia or been to a color organ recital, but now I'd really like to do both in the hopes of experiencing synesthesia.
The TED talk on Cymatics was also very interesting. Again they took an obscure topic like synesthesia and presented it and addressed it as a scientific phenomenon. I found some of the presentation to be a little bit arbitrary and far reaching, the starfish/snowflake sound images for example seemed silly at best. But there were really interesting implications of cymatics presented. The dolphin bit about capturing their language in a system of visual representations to better understand their communication was great. Also the installation segment where participants could actively manipulate and see sound presented on the surface of water sounds incredible. In general though, I think its great that scientists are taking a topic like Cymatics and exploring its potential in every way possible.
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