The Taste of Words: Synaesthesia – the Sixth Sense Location: Soho House New York, Vinyl Room Date: 23.08.17 Time: 18:30pm onwards Booking: Please note that this is a members only event for Soho House NYC, so please contact Nick at Arcadia Education for info. Lexical Gustatory Synaesthesia is arguably the most unusual of the myriad strains of synaesthesia (the conjoining of the senses) enabling the individual to ‘taste’ words. Nick Nelson, Director of Arcadia Education UK and freelance Art Historian will explore with visual and aural stimuli, the fascinating familial neurological phenomenon of synaesthesia. The composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is reputed to have experienced chromosthesia in which heard sounds automatically and involuntarily evoked an experience of colour, whereas the writer Baudelaire had grapheme-colour synaesthesia, prompting the painter Robert Delaunay to illustrate his poem ‘A Time in Hell’ with coloured vowels and consonants on Baudelaire’s instruction. Nick’s Masters Degree Thesis in History … Continue reading The Taste of Words: Synaesthesia – the Sixth Sense