Neil Harbisson: I listen to color
Neil Harbisson: Escucha el color
Neil Harbisson's "eyeborg" allows him to hear colors, even those beyond the range of sight. Full bio
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incapacidad total para ver los colores,
—(Sonidos de frecuencia)—
Entonces, si tengo por ejemplo...
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(Sonidos de frecuencia)
(Sonidos de frecuencia)
(Risas)
luego tuve que memorizar las notas musicales,
No era el software,
desde que escucho el color,
(Risas) ¡Sí!
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a comer verduras.
y algo de Bjork o Madonna como postre,
pero sonar horriblemente.
dibujar la forma,
y luego creo retratos sonoros.
tienen un sonido similar.
en una experiencia amarilla,
puedo transformar los discursos en color,
y ahora oigo colores
o un mal día para tomar el sol,
así que creo que todos deberíamos
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Neil Harbisson - Sonochromatic Cyborg ArtistNeil Harbisson's "eyeborg" allows him to hear colors, even those beyond the range of sight.
Why you should listen
Born with the inability to see color, Neil Harbisson wears a prosthetic device — he calls it an "eyeborg" — that allows him to hear the spectrum, even those colors beyond the range of human sight. His unique experience of color informs his artwork — which, until he met cyberneticist Adam Montandon at a college lecture, was strictly black-and-white. By working with Montandon, and later with Peter Kese, Harbisson helped design a lightweight eyepiece that he wears on his forehead that transposes the light frequencies of color hues into sound frequencies.
Harbisson's artwork blurs the boundaries between sight and sound. In his Sound Portraits series, he listens to the colors of faces to create a microtonal chord. In the City Colours project, he expresses the capital cities of Europe in two colors (Monaco is azure and salmon pink; Bratislava yellow and turquoise).
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