"...what is essential in the sensuous-perceptible is not that which separates the senses from one another, but that which unites them; unites them among themselves; unites them with the entire (even with the non-sensuous) experience in ourselves; and with all the external world that there is to be experienced." - Erich M. von Hornbostel
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Synaesthetic design
Synaesthetic adjectives
“According to the Oxford English Dictionary, ‘sharp’ applied first to touch, then subsequently to taste (ca. 1000), visual shape (1340), and hearing (1390)”. Lawrence E. Marks, 1978, p. 190. Marks, L. E. (1978). The unity of the senses: Interrelations among the modalities. New York, NY: Academic Press.
The unity of the senses
What is essential in the sensuous-perceptible is not that which separates the senses from one another, but that which unites them; unites them among themselves; unites them with the entire (even with the non-sensuous) experience in ourselves; and with all the external world that there is to be experienced. - Erich von Hornbostel
Sensory qualities speak to one another
“By means of the language of resemblance, sensory qualities speak to one another and, as it were, talk over their common feeling; and by the same language of resemblance, their voices carry beyond the sensory realm, invading qualities that are not primarily sensorial, again to share, in metaphor, a common feeling” – Lawrence Marks (1978,… Continue reading Sensory qualities speak to one another
Universal suprasensory attributes
Given [Külpe's] notion [of universal suprasensory attributes], we might say that the several senses display a fundamental unity in part because a class of suprasensory attributes pertains to sensations on all modalities. - Lawrence Marks in "The unity of the senses: Interrelations among the modalities"
Sensus communis
Experience
“Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue, and each shows only what lies in its focus. From the mountain you… Continue reading Experience