In my master’s thesis, entitled “Hearing Color, Seeing Sound: The Relationship
Between Sound and Colour”, I explored the parallels between sound and image,
differences between visual and auditory perceptions, ways of converting musical
tones into colour, correspondences between concepts in art theory and music
theory and connecting audio and visual elements in art. There is a problem
of scientific consensus when it comes to research in these fields. My personal
interest with the audio-visual field came from my interation with the “VJ culture”
which deals with the visualization of music. The goal of my research thesis was
to discover new and different approaches to audio and music visualization and in
particular, to show that each musical tone can be paired with a particular colour -
that represents that specific musical tone in the visual realm and vice versa. The
tool used to experiment was a computer software that converts sound waves into
pixels or images. The finished spectrographic images were used in an interactive
audiovisual installation, which was also the end result of my research.
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