Perceptual Correspondences of Abstract Animation and Synthetic Sound

Composing with timbres involves an approach that is very different from the usual way of conceiving traditional Western music. In fact, it is problematic to attempt to organize timbres according to traditional principles. The author believes that if it is possible to establish links between audio and video events, then it is both possible to use the visual language to organize a music composition and possible to create abstract visual objects that correspond to synthetic sounds, consequently having a biunivocal link between audio and video events. The relationships between abstract animation and synthetic sounds are investigated in light of the correspondences between sound timbres and visual shapes, between perceived audio and video spatial locations and between perceived audio and video intensities. An audiovisual work called Dynamics was based on these correspondences.