It is known that scribbles drawn by a person listening to heavy metal would be starkly different from those drawn by jazz enthusiasts. Music influences our mood, it influences our personality. Music affects our emotions maybe as strongly as color does. One has a great tendency of picking up a particular t-shirt color suiting the prevalent mood. In this experiment I've linked these two senses into one. For this I've taken inspiration from Kandinsky's work & the mental condition of Synesthesia (Synsthesia is a mental condition that allows one to represent sound visually) Colour music has inspired great many artists and musicians over the centuries. From Newton, Aristotle to Bainbridge Bishop’s colour organs. Colour music can give music laymen an opportunity to make music through colour. The same can happen for musicians who wish to make a painting. Colorscape explores the merging and correlation of these two forms of art.
A musical interface was designed where the keyboard keys were replaced by colors which were mapped based on the research conducted on Synesthesia and colour music associations in history. The output reveals an extra layer above the commonly known musical notation. This therefore helps link a specific chord to a specific color thereby adding a more visual dimension to interpreting music. Further, an artist painting a scape with colors can be interpreted by the device to produce music typical to that artwork. A series of experiments were done which attempted to formulate a logic to reading a painting and producing music out of it. Mapping consonants to harmony and dissonants to contrasts along with pitch to hue was used in the Colourscape piano. Experiments with cymatics and the sound wave phenomena were also done to explore the sound-form relation.
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