Soundtracks needed

Help to investigate the link between sound and image by making the soundtrack to a video


What sounds / music do you think you should be hearing while watching this video? It was originally made to represent a certain song, but we're interested to know what you think it should sound like.

We want people to submit musical interpretations of the video, be they original compositions or existing songs.

Submissions will close on Tuesday June 28th.
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You are invited to suggest a soundtrack for the above sequence by using the form below. You can either email us a recording of your own musical interpretation*, or simply send us a link to an existing song you think fits with it.

Please leave as many details as you can, so we know how to edit the song to the footage in the timing that you want.

You can also submit anonymously if you like.

*By submitting an original composition, you must agree to our Terms and Conditions.

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Name of chosen soundtrack: *
URL link to song choice: *
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Alternatively, Email us an attachment of your soundtrack

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This exercise is part of a larger body of work based on music art direction that I'm undertaking for my final university 3rd year project.

How it works

The video has been edited from some base footage in time with a song. It's been built up in layers, with darker layers representing the rhythm and coloured layers representing melody.

The colours of sounds have been chosen after reading a sufferer of Synaesthesia's interpretation of the colours that they see when they experience melody - and the notes of a scale. This has been done with attention to detail in the aim that someone could decode the video and 'play' the song (if they had a lot of time on their hands). If you're interested you can view the descriptions of colours of notes that I've used here.

Synaesthesia

Is a neurological disorder where people's senses are affected.
"In its simplest form it is best described as a "union of the senses" whereby two or more of the five senses that are normally experienced separately are involuntarily and automatically joined together. Some synaesthetes experience colour when they hear sounds or read words. Others experience tastes, smells, shapes or touches in almost any combination. These sensations are automatic and cannot be turned on or off. Synaesthesia isn't a disease or illness and is not at all harmful. In fact, the vast majority of synaesthetes couldn't imagine life without it. "

Links

UK Synaesthesia Association
University of Sussex Synaesthesia Research

Other Examples

In May we ran the first Synaesthetic for Fututre Everything's Handmade event. You can see the results of the first experiment here. This version has a contrasting song as the base of the video editing, the test here is to see if people submit different kinds of songs - as influenced by the different original song.

Here are two examples of the same base footage, edited in sync with two different songs.



Participants

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View the participants and entries of the first Synaesthetic here.
@SynaestheticUK on Twitter | Synaesthetic Part 1 | Project / Site Design by Jen Hingley
A selection of submissions will be applied to the footage and shown at Piccadilly Place in Manchester as part of Manchester Art Crawl. Taking place from the 2nd to the 16th of July

More event info soon