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i think that it is far more work to impose discreteness on aspects of the sensorum (i like that word and rarely get to use it) than it is to allow them to work in concert. i think most routine embodied cognitive activity (you know, being in the world) is synaesthetic. the separation seems to me a matter of labels and then thinking through the labels, like most separations are. probably useful in some situations. in others really not useful.
it seems to me that language is an extended demonstration of synesthesia---word recognition, associations, etc.
i just realized this is a rephrase of what art posted above.
i see structures and colors when i play piano. i use them as compositional devices. it's normal to me, so i don't really think about it. i'm a little surprised when people tell me that listening is not visual--i tend not to believe them. playing seems to me immersive, so involves lots of sensory input. the hierarchies between types of data is controllable...you can alter it over time by changing your process.
it's just part of being in the world that you can work with and refine or not.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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