Sounds of Music - Performance Series - Number One
Performance Series - Number One
"Sound of Color” is a collaboration between
Shane Guffogg, pianist Anthony Cardella and Jonah Lynch.
In 2023 Guffogg and Cardella began mapping out the sounds that Guffogg hears
via a rare gift known as synesthesia, where by sounds are heard internally when
he encounters color. Guffogg and Cardella worked together creating
chord charts of colors that were used one of Guffogg’s paintings.
This information was then passed to AI software programmer Jonah Lynch.
After watching videos of Guffogg’s painting, Lynch wrote a program that mapped
out Guffoggs movements with the sequence of colors in the painting
and matching them to the chords that were established.
The result is new compositions that in essence are being composed by the paintings.
This will be the first time the public will hear these
compositions and in fact, Anthony and Shane will be adding to the AI results,
breathing life into the music.