Reading about the concept on synesthesia made me utterly jealous that couldn't color coat numbers, or taste the alphabet and whatnot. The concept is very intriguing. The whole idea of the neurological stapling of sensation and emotion to numbers, letters, and sounds opens up a whole new creative doorway. Two things really caught my eye in the materials: 

        1. Synesthesia being laden with affect- Emotion, creativity, and the mundane all rolled into one. It's taking a perspective on something trite in life transforming it into pure feeling. Sand being transmuted into gold in you will.

        2. During the TED video the speaker mentions synesthesia allowing him to "feel" if something was out of place in a work, and to just "feel" what would fit the part right. Surgery with intuition. 

Duke Ellington had a nice quote about his synesthesia , 

"I hear a note by one of the fellows in the band and it’s one color. I hear the same note played by someone else and it’s a different color. When I hear sustained musical tones, I see just about the same colors that you do, but I see them in textures. If Harry Carney is playing, D is dark blue burlap. If Johnny Hodges is playing, G becomes light blue satin."

He was able to just "feel" what  would go well with these notes. Again, I'm jealous. But there's hope, true believers! Head trauma and psychedelics can cause synesthesia to occur. So let's all go do a pound of peyote and lay our heads down in the road so we can see some purple sevens.

Cymatics is pretty cool too. The physical form of sound. Sound is vibration. And the different vibrations of certain notes creates some unique patterns. It makes me think of string theory, the theory of how vibrations play an integral in the formation of everything. Are sound and form interrelated? 

I feel the both the topics of synesthesia (had to do it one more time) and cymatics both deal with the connecting of small links that we overlook. Maybe everything is one under the sun.

"Pull a thread here and you'll find it's attached to the rest of the world".

--Nadeem Aslam

"The Earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the Earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us all. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself".

--Chief Seattle