I'm really looking forward to having some time to try and do some experimentation with this audio/photo mash but probably not for at least another 6 months. School's taking up my time and there's no question of priorities. The fun must wait.

Recalled today of a little creative exercise that a friend told me about. In one of his art classes he was asked to see with his ears. It's an interesting idea, can one sense substitute for another sense. I took a cooking course where the teacher, a fully certified chef quipped, "First you taste with the eyes, then you taste with the nose, and finally you taste with your mouth". Synaesthesia seems to touch upon how it may be possible to cause different sensory inputs to yield non-related responses in other senses. In the wikipedia line, especially look at the Kiki and Booba example for a really neat example. I love certain words for how representative they are of the subject. One of my favourites is "pompous". Can't you just see an roundly inflated fellow in a tight vest venting away in rolly-polely sounds?

This property is something that perhaps I can exploit here and gives me the opportunity to go backwards from audio to image. Until now, I've been thinking of a unidirectional relationship where the photo dictates something about the nature of the audio. Yay autocracy of media in my head. So now, there's the idea about taking short clips of audio and trying to find images for them. It's nothing new of an idea, dpchallenge.com takes a word and asks players to come up with an image, explodingdog.com does wonderfully inventive illustrations from phrases.

The entire idea of relationship between dissimilar "things" is natural. In photographs, we have to be very careful about the background. An image is a 2d representation of 3d space. Flattening the world, relationships are created between various elements in the image that then go on to speak of something else. By combining both audio and photo, it may be possible to cause alternative interpretations that go beyond just the elements presented.

Anyways, I really should be a bit more responsible. Final exam for Plant Physiology tomorrow!