Synesthesia Files

I painted this in oils while listening to Sky Eats Airplane and Everyone Dies in Utah (Album Polarities). Believe it or not it's an orchid and not some creepy demented monster...though it kind of became a monster to me as I was painting it. I almost want to add some red eyes to it. 

Deviance--Excision & Datsik

So this song...was definitely lodged in my brain for more than a few hours while I was taking my organic chemistry exam yesterday. Let me just say all of the gritty sharp blue and silver amorphous orbs kept me awake for the entire two hours. I think I might have just passed out otherwise. I definitely felt like I was going to melt into a puddle. 

I see lots of sharp spiky pulsing orbs kind of dancing around each other on a black background, sometimes colliding. There are pink streaks...kind of like comets weaving in and out between everything. Sharp and long 3D triangles stab out the sides of the orbs at certain parts. Pale blue spots show up like a stoplight in a vertical line during the little tinkly part at the end. 

Art Inspired by the song Abiogenesis by Carbon Based Lifeforms (see below)

Abiogenesis--Carbon Based Lifeforms

Synesthesia Painting #2

This image "Epiphany" was inspired by Bassnectar's 'Underground Communication' album....I'm pretty sure I listened to the whole album...probably more than 15 times while painting it. It fit it so well! This is what I saw every time. 

The main song that comes to mind is "Replenish" 

Stardust--Minnesota

Holyshit this song... I don't even know where to begin with this one. 

Goddamn…music is crazy.

Blue background with white shooting stars firing at you with a puke yellow slowly wobbling line across my vision. Some purple tie die spritzes in the background behind the stars and goddamn my whole body feels high and floaty.

This fucking song, like I can’t stop feeling it. I literally feel like I’m about to climax through this entire song. I feel it in my arms. I feel the beat in my chest when I listen to it. It starts out to the top left and just shoots through my head and into my torso. I feel like my whole body is the beat and has a matched frequency with it. Ugh goddddd SO PHYSICAL.

Like, when I listen to this I calm down and do that whole “Whoa” thing that most people do when they just took a HUGE hit of something dank. Yeah that’s me right now. Drugless and tripping balls. God this is awesome.

I see a small rainbow in a transparent sphere of glass…like there’s a whole ecosystem in this round blob of solid glass. Rain, snow, sun, everything is in this glass orb. Small hills and rivers…trees…mainly evergreens…and the sphere is being held by a gypsy wearing a pink head shawl and she’s standing in a blacklight with a white shawl covering her face…while the world around her is dark and hidden. Everything is black except for her face and hands holding this orb

…maybe it was all the caffeine but SHIT I get a physical high from Minnesota every SINGLE time I listen to him. It feels like I smoked a shit ton, except all I've had today was coffee. Fuck dude this is ughhh….I  close my eyes and I can feel the rhythm coursing through my goddamn veins. Like holy shit. This music is just fucking sexy. I can’t describe it any other way. I want to make love to it. 

Synesthesia Painting

So I went to the first Excision concert for this years US tour last night in Indy and HOLY DAMN was it sexy. Lasers, fake snow, fog machines, and robot animations everywhere. Synesthesia-wise I also had my own personal trippy light show. I saw soooo many crazy flashing triangles that looked like they were breakdancing towards the end of the show...if that makes any sense.

Paracet--Kubbi

Because I'm still obsessed with Kubbi

I see a bunch of flowers and they're on a green field and there are really cool trees everywhere that look like mops upside down and planted in the ground. Darkness falls and these trees leaves grow and their flowers open. Bright blue orbs appear all over each of the trees and they release their glowing pollen into the air. The flowers open as well and uproot themselves. The trees lift their drooping vines and wave them into the air...similar to sea anemones in the pink dusk. The sky turns purple and you can see various unnamed planets shining through the purple haze. 

Yellow bats flutter around the tree and try to eat the glowing flower nectar. 

A huge slash of red and white appears and purple and yellow dots bounce about 

a river forms next to this tree and it's blue and green. There are pink fish in it. Some larger aquatic creatures as well...similar to salamanders. 

OH DEAR GOD THIS SONG BY KUBBI MAKES ME WANT TO CRY I LOVE IT SO MUCH!!! 

"We are Wired"--Kubbi

I'm so obsessed with Kubbi's music I can't even handle it. Go get everything he/she's ever made RIGHT NOW. 

Here's what I got for this one:

GOD I FUCKING LOVE THIS FUCKING SONG UNGGHGHHHHHHHHH

It begins with a green wisp of thin smoke on a black background. Some blue smoke appears and dances with the green. Dark pink shimmers around and there's a podium that rises up.

A blue fire glows above the podium and strands of blue fire light up the world around radially  away from the podium.

The stone ground glows a light blue. It's like lighting a path of kerosene on fire. The fire rises and becomes yellow at the tips and snakes up high above everything making a canopy of flames. 

It's gorgeous.

There is a large circle in the dark ceiling through which you can see a few stars.

The smoke and fire spin up and out of the chamber and soar across the sky and light clouds on fire. This fire is red.

Some of them glow from the inside like embers and others actually catch on fire. Their tendrils connect the clouds together and as the clouds come together they hail polished gemstones and marbles upon the plains below.

There are sheep and evergreen trees up on a rolling hill. The moon is orange and there's smoke and fire drawing patterns in the sky.

The blue fire continues its path along the ground and slowly the clouds begin to drop lower to the ground. upon touching the ground they turn into water and extinguish the fire everywhere except for the first flame in the chamber.

Ozar Midrashim 1.1 (Original)

This song was a suggestion by one of my Tumblr peeps.

It has a really long intro that speaks for itself, but once the actual song gets going it looks a little something like this:

It's a sewer with grey four petal flower shape in the center. Black is all around the edges. Red and orange fire looking wisps spin around like poi. There are two kind of diagonal from each other. 

Some red flashes drown everything else out and a white ladder shape is shooting towards you. Everything around you starts bleeding black and dripping downward infinitely. 

some green platforms appear everywhere and the ladder chops them into pieces. It's like a forest green. Ladder vortex begins contorting and the platforms spin around everywhere. They rotate around the ladder shape which is the focal point of everything.