Green Note

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Green Note

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Wavy Window

This is what the sound of my dishwasher looks like.

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Harpsichord on Arno

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Brass Band

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Fever

This image is typical of the shape of sound. It also looks like the sound I saw in early childhood when I ran a high fever. I remember asking my mother why my fevers sang to me.

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Dancing To Ravel

I named this image "Dancing to Ravel" for two reasons. One, I hear Ravel which is produced by the lighting and the colors; and two, I see a dancing figure in the lower portion with its arms in a classic ballerina position.

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Pools of Paint

If you look to the right of the yellow, there is cello music in the browns made possible by the contrast between the darker and lighter tones. Not all browns elicit sound, however. For instance, the brown on the left is not musical at all.

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Red Buoy 1

My earliest photographs were taken of the sound of red. I had just acquired a camera and felt compelled to take pictures of the red buoys. The sound was created by the sun reflecting off of red buoys when the fishing boats returned at four in the afternoon. It's hard for me to describe the sound in musical terms except that it is like a siren -- not a loud annoying siren but like the Sirens in Ulysses which neither he nor I could resist.

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Furry Light & Chimes

My initial synesthetic response to this image is one of texture, but I also hear the sound of chimes. It depends on where I focus my eyes. For example, if I focus my eyes on the filament-like edges of the shapes in the top row, I instantly feel texture against my skin. But if I shift my attention to their color and arrangement, the texture disappears and the sound of chimes both surfaces and dominates, as if texture and sound traded places in the layers of my consciousness. It works like this:

First, I hear the fifth shape (yellow) in the top row. Next, I hear the yellow shape to its right which is slightly diminished. Then, the sound travels right to left, as the four white shapes -- along with the other less defined shapes beneath the row -- pick up and repeat the original yellow sound in a sequence typical of what I hear when a rectangular metal chime is hit with a hammer.

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Big Fractals

I include this image as an example of one that elicits "no sound" at all, so much so that it could be a symbol (for me) that means "soundproof". Why? Probably because all the edges are sealed.

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