Hirshhorn Museum — Washington DC  — Visual Music

In speaking about the synesthesia exhibit relating music and visual art, Dr. Cytowic gives a gallery talk about synesthesia in relation to the charged and profoundly generative relationship between art and music over the past 100 years. Abstraction and color meet musical forms as varied as classical, jazz, rock, and electronic.

Dreamscape: The Intelligence and Creativity of Your Dreaming Brain

Richard Cytowic MD,  Annette Covatta DMA

Ring Auditorium, Hirshhorn Museum.

Synesthesia: Hearing Colors, Tasting Shapes

In this fascinating talk, neurologist Richard E. Cytowic, MD, a pioneer and leading authority in the field of synesthesia, explains how research findings on the phenomenon challenge conventional notions about how the human brain is organized. Learn what current research reveals as Dr. Cytowic explains why everyone has the ability to perceive the world synesthetically.

Joining Dr. Cytowic is National Symphony Orchestra cellist Yvonne Caruthers, who discusses colored music and famous synesthete composers such as Messiaen; and New York artist Carol Steen, co–founder of the American Synesthesia Association, who illustrates ways in which her own tactile and auditory synesthesia informs her vibrant canvasses and sculptures.

This Smithsonian Resident program is part of Brain: The World Inside Your Head