VVC Panel Sources - Still Preoccupied With 1985
On synaesthesia, or the transposition of sensory images or attributes from one modality into another (i.e. seeing music or tasting shapes):
"What all of these diverse studies of synaesthetia argue is that we very rarely use any sense (as it's presently socially circumscribed) on its own--and music video "viewing" is blatantly one such case. The senses inform each other, cross each other's tracks, and most importantly, embody both a singularity and the potential to merge..."
Recent studies of music video reject the idea that the images only support the sound track but that's it's a two way street: "For instance, when a human body is represented in an audio-visual manner, the implications of the sonic components may radically contradict how we are socially educated to interpret the image.Therefore the obligatory reunion of such multisensory expressions into a single music video confuses patterns of depiction that may seem fairly stable within, say, a song or an image on its own. [Emphasis mine --Ces.] Syaesthesia, in its blurring of the distinctions between bodily experience and cultural convetion, coaxes out our curiosity about how the sense interact and influence each other and the extent to which any of our understanding of this is ' natural.'"
--Kay Dickinson, "Music Video and Synaesthetic Possibility," in Medium Cool, Music Videos from Soundies to Cellphones, ed. Beebe and Middleton
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"What all of these diverse studies of synaesthetia argue is that we very rarely use any sense (as it's presently socially circumscribed) on its own--and music video "viewing" is blatantly one such case. The senses inform each other, cross each other's tracks, and most importantly, embody both a singularity and the potential to merge..."
Recent studies of music video reject the idea that the images only support the sound track but that's it's a two way street: "For instance, when a human body is represented in an audio-visual manner, the implications of the sonic components may radically contradict how we are socially educated to interpret the image.Therefore the obligatory reunion of such multisensory expressions into a single music video confuses patterns of depiction that may seem fairly stable within, say, a song or an image on its own. [Emphasis mine --Ces.] Syaesthesia, in its blurring of the distinctions between bodily experience and cultural convetion, coaxes out our curiosity about how the sense interact and influence each other and the extent to which any of our understanding of this is ' natural.'"
--Kay Dickinson, "Music Video and Synaesthetic Possibility," in Medium Cool, Music Videos from Soundies to Cellphones, ed. Beebe and Middleton
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