Dawn
Chromesthesia, or sound-to-color synesthesia, is a condition in which sound involuntarily evokes experiences of color, shape, or movement. This concept forms the basis of the Chromesthesia series.
The project uses a 12x12 color grid where each hue corresponds to a root note and each shade links to a scale mode. Darker colors relate to darker tonalities.
Releases in this series are artifacts of remote, improvised performances over the internet by members of the Exposure Therapy collective. The color and root note pairings serve as a shared anchor, offering a common reference for interpretation while the musical framework maintains cohesion among the performers.
For this album, four members of the Exposure Therapy collective improvised together remotely, all responding to the color Dawn. Dawn represents the first light of morning, warm yet still holding traces of the preceding night. The resulting session was mixed and mastered to create this album.
Chromesthesia is an ongoing series, with each release shaped by a new color and a new collaboration.
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Performed By
Actor Network
Berlin, Germany
Berlin-based Actor Network (Johannes Herseni) is a classically trained trombonist and electronic musician. Stripping away all but the atmospheric, his music explores the qualities of loud, unrestrained sounds reflected in architectural spaces, blending together deeply echoing remnants that reverberate through massive, industrial environments.
Simon Bridgestock
Ashford, Kent, UK
Simon Bridgestock is a composer, multi-instrumentalist and visual artist from Canterbury, United Kingdom. He has worked in a wide variety of musical contexts that encompass Jazz, Psyche-Rock, Electronica and more, usually with a focus on using improvisation to generate ideas. Recent years have seen Simon explore the aesthetics of hauntology and retrofuturism, both sonically and visually and how past memories skew and inform our present.