Synaesthesia

Synaesthesia
noun
The process of picturing sounds in the mind's eye.


"A film that responds to the pleasures of music, and in which that music is made visual, either in new ways or in ways that accentuate existing visual associations."

- Andrew Goodwin (1992) - Dancing in the Distraction Factory

We completed an exercise in class in which we listened to the music alone, without any visuals, and had to draw what we 'saw' through the music.  Firstly we listened to 'For Your Love' by Josh Record. The music to me seemed quite romantic and so, stereotypically, I drew a starry sky above a busy city. To be it seemed like a very John Green 'Fault in Our Stars' kind of romanticism and so the influence for my drawing definitely stemmed from almost the reverse of the film poster or the moment in the book where they lie on the ground gazing at the stars, totally in love.

Surprisingly, the actual music video was a little different to what I envisaged. Instead it was still centered around the theme for love or perhaps, in my opinion, obsession as the male character watches the female love interest. Maybe the reason for my visualisation of the music video was different as I only listened to just the music rather then the lyrics. The main lyric that did stick out however was 'For Your Love', the title of the song.

Secondly we repeated the task just with 'Intro' by the xx instead. This time it seemed to really work accurately since I almost imagined the whole music video correctly. Similar features were present in the official music video which I had not even previously seen. Some reason the music just reminded me of being in a car at night, while looking at all the street lights as they flew past. It also made me think of dark alleyways, barley lit with ominous looking people down them.