Ellen Hackl fagan

Projects: The ColorSoundGrammar Game

The ColorSoundGrammar game is a playful interaction in which viewers build connections between color and sound. To play, participants put the familiar Do Re Mi musical scale in the front of their mind. Then they select the color(s) that best fits each note in this melody. This aural/visual game presses both the left and the right hemispheres of the brain into action.

I photograph their results and keep a journal. The resulting photodocumentation later gets translated into pseudoscientific meditations, and ultimately, paintings on the blended language of color and sound.

Looking for consistencies in peoples' ColorSoundGrammar choices can demonstrate that there is an innate synaesthetic language we all posses, perhaps used at an earlier phase in our evolution. Participants leave with a personal awareness of color's sonic potential and its communicative breadth.

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