Addictive App Lets You Compose And Arrange Music With Shapes
Geometric Music is a free app (download here, or fiddle online) that takes sounds recorded from your environment and…
Science Conclusively Determines The Best Kind Of Slapstick
There's an old adage about humor: Explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog. Nobody's that interested, and the frog…
​A Mental Condition Can Make People Seem to Spew Ticker Tape
Some people's entire lives are closed captioned. Whenever the people around them speak a word, they can see it spewing…
An Awesome Photography Trick That Lets You See Sound
You can take pictures of what you see, but what about what you hear? It is possible, using a photography trick that can…
These Scarves Are Woven Music, Made With Patterns From Organ Punchcards
Did you know that the same kind of punched cards control both the jaunty tunes of old timey organs and the warp and…
This Interactive Music Game Will Take Over Your Day
This musical interactive transforms your keyboard into an instrument, complete with accompanying animations.
Playing With These Sonic Animations Is The Most Fun You'll Have Today
Okay, here is an addictive Friday afternoon diversion I think you're going to like: Patatap lets you make tunes and…
This Wacky Telescope Lets You Listen To What You're Looking At
Unless you're a synesthete, the five senses are pretty straightforward—but designers keep on coming up with cool ways…
What color is an orgasm?
People with a condition known as synesthesia are prone to swapping their senses. They can feel colors, see music, and…
Experience the number π as you never have before
Unless, that is, you're a synesthete. (You're about to experience a number through music!)
This is what a dolphin call looks like
Ever wish you could see sounds? Now you can.
What It's Like to Have Synesthesia And See All Your Numbers in Color
In the big wide world of mental disorders, synesthesia is probably one of the most interesting and least harmful.…
Can you learn to taste numbers, smell words, or hear colors?
Do you know anybody who experiences synesthesia? Also known as "synesthetes," they're people whose cognitive pathways…
Portrait of the Ghost Drummer lets you visualize a drum solo in three dimensions
Unless you're a synesthete, you probably don't get very many opportunities to see music. But this 3D data…
What flavor is this shape?
No ideas? What about a passing train — has listening to one ever evoked a specific color in your mind?
Why has synesthesia survived throughout human evolutionary history?
An estimated 4% of the population have synesthesia, a condition where senses become confused. People with synesthesia…
Lexical-Gustatory Synesthesia: When People Taste Words
Synesthesia is a concept that has always fascinated people. People have long since claimed to process colors as sounds,…
Can swimming evoke synesthesia? Apparently yes
According to researchers at Frankfurt's Max-Planck Institute for Brain Research, the sight of certain swimming strokes…
The Bouba-Kiki Effect
Take a look at the picture and honestly tell me which shape you would match to the word ‘bouba' and which you would…
Synesthetic Time Lords Discovered in California
Time Lords walk among us. Two per cent of readers may be surprised to discover that they are members of an elite group…