Cymatics and Synesthesia response

While watching the video on cymatics, I was reminded of the short experimental film we watched last week in class where the images changed according to the tempo and beats of the music. While cymatics seems to be related more to the shapes created from the sound waves and vibrations emitted from sound, I feel that one could combine the two in order to create a new experimental film that makes sound visible. While it may be too small to accurately record the full shapes created by sound waves, one could use the clear film and place small amounts of ink on it and let the vibrations create the visuals. Similarly, one could try to draw on film that is places on top of a surface that vibrates from the sound waves. I’ll let someone else figure out the device to be made in order to get vibrations strong enough to affect one’s drawing on film. To make sound even more “visible,” the use of synesthesia in art could be applied by having the colors “correspond” with the sound heard. However, it will obviously be highly subjective as it would be whatever color I deem to be appropriate for whatever song I’m listening to. Also, I don’t have synesthesia, so it wouldn’t be based on whatever synesthetic experience I would have had. It would most likely be like word association, only with color. I suppose that if it felt like a sad song, I would choose something like blue or brown, and conversely, if it were a happy sounding song it might be pink or yellow. I could jazz it up and make the colors opposite of the feeling one would associate with them, so yellow for sad, etc. Which is fitting, as I don’t find yellow particularly happy, this goes for the Coldplay song as well. Or I could match rhyming scheme with a color whose name rhymes with it such as red and said, though that may not follow closely to whatever rules apply for synesthesia’s use in art.