Ouver: a relação entre o som e a cor na percepção

Abstract

The objective of this work is to analyze, through case reports of the artist Neil Harbisson, in dialogue with the synesthete Melissa McCracken, if the soundcolor relation represented in images, videos, texts and artifacts, constituents of their sensorial conditions and works, is an evidence of an increase in perception. With this goal, synesthesia will be approached as a concept involved in the investigation of this relationship. It is taken as a starting point that the expression "enhancement of perception" means to increase a person's ability to acquire skills in their environment and with their environment, using part of Ingold's (2002) concept of skills: "Capacities of action and perception of all organic being situated in and with the environment" (INGOLD, 2002). In terms of methodological procedure, the research is explanatory, uses bibliographic method and demonstrates, from the life and work of artists and authors such as Melissa McCracken and the cyborg Neil Harbisson, the relationship between sound and color materialized in different ways. In support of these case examples, seeking to add to the investigation of the sound-color relationship and its implications, the poetics of James Joyce and the context of John Whitney's audiovisual media are briefly described and debated. The description of such cases, articulated fundamentally with the concepts of Gibson (1986) and Ingold (2002), brought a differentiated focus to the studies of perception and showed that the sound-color relation, in its several faces, presents itself as significant information and a means of appropriating the developmental trajectory of perception. This medium, in turn, can generate the modification of the common, auditory and sensorial contemplative space, through the non-linearity of models of representation and the distortion of forms of understanding in the ways of seeing, reading and listening.