Synesthesia is a neurological condition where one sensory experience gets combined with another, meaning someone might hear sounds when they eat, or see colors when they listen to music. So what exactly is synesthesia? And what’s it like to go through life with these unique sensory connections? Featuring the voices of neuroscientist Dr. Richard Cytowic and f ... Show More
Nov 19
Defying Gravity: The Audio Wizardry of Wicked's Live Vocals
In movie musicals, the vocals are almost never recorded live on-set. Instead, the actors pre-record their songs, then lip sync to those recordings while filming. But on Wicked, they threw out the rulebook, and recorded all of the lead vocals live. In this episode, Production Soun ... Show More
32m 21s
Aug 2022
Encore - Tasty words, colorful sounds - How people with synesthesia experience the world, with Julia Simner, PhD
More than 4% of people have some form of synesthesia, a neurological condition that causes senses to link and merge. People with synesthesia may taste words, hear colors, or see calendar dates arrayed in physical space. Dr. Julia Simner, a professor of neuropsychology at the Univ ... Show More
39m 22s
Dec 2023
The Mystery of Synesthesia (Letters, Numbers, Colors, Sounds, Perception, Psychic)
<p><img width="150" height="150" src="https://sqpn.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/MYS288-post-150x150.png" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" loading="lazy" />When you see a written word, do you also see colors in your mind? Jimmy Ak ... Show More
1h 40m
Dec 2022
When You Hear Colors and Taste Shapes
For the past couple of months, we’ve explored the senses and how each one affects our health and well-being. In our last episode of this season, we examine a trait known as synesthesia – in which the senses intertwine, like seeing colors when you hear music or tasting flavor when ... Show More
24m 28s
Jan 2023
Synesthesia: The 6th Sense
<p>In 1812, a physician by the name of Georg Tobias Ludwig Sachs was writing about the nature of albinism, having had the condition himself. Color was a recurring topic in his analysis of albinism and as such, in discussing his own experience, he mentioned that “colored ideas” ap ... Show More
13m 2s
Jan 2021
RU125: WANDA CANTON on spoken word, rap, poetry, writing, music, mental health, social change
Wanda Canton is an artist, facilitator, consultant and researcher. She provides workshops, group courses and individual mentoring exploring how spoken word poetry, rap and creative writing can enhance mental health and social cohesion. She has worked across community projects, me ... Show More
44m 23s