1. The Sound of Color
“Life will be much more exciting when we stop creating applications for mobile
phones and we start creating applications for our own body“
Neil Harbisson
Jasso V. M. Patricia
Martínez M. María Berenice
Ruiz Trejo Luz Adriana
3. What Is Achromatopsia?
Congenital achromatopsia is a rare
hereditary vision disorder which
affects 1 person in 33,000 in the U. S.
Persons who have achromatopsia do
not have normal "cone vision." In the
retinas of normal eyes there are 6
million cone photoreceptors,
located mostly at the center of the
retina. There are complete and
incomplete forms of achromatopsia.
4. Persons with complete achromatopsia must rely on their "rod vision."
In the normal eye there are 100 million rod photoreceptors. Rods
are located mostly at the periphery of the retina. Rods "saturate" at
higher levels of illumination. Therefore, the eyes of achromats,
lacking normal cone vision and having only rod vision, are not able
to adapt normally to higher levels of illumination. Rods do not provide
color vision or good detail vision.
5. CYBORG
A cyborg, short for ”cybernetic organism", is a being with both
biological and artificial parts. See for example biomaterials and
bioelectronics.
The term was coined in 1960 when Manfred Clynes and Nathan S. Kline
used it in an article about the advantages of self-regulating human-
machine systems in outer space.
The termcyborg is often applied to an
organism that has enhanced abilities due to
technology, though this perhaps oversimplifies
the necessity of feedback for regulating the
subsystem.
The more strict definition of Cyborg is almost
always considered as increasing or enhancing
normal capabilities.
6. Eyeborg
An eyeborg is a cybernetic body apparatus which typically fits on the
wearer's head, and is designed to allow people to perceive color through
sound waves. It is mostly used by blind people or by people with visual
impairments such as color blindness or achromatopsia. It works with a
head-mounted camera that reads the colors directly in front of a person,
and converts them in real-time into sound waves.
7. Frequency spectrum
Any signal that can be represented as an amplitude that varies with time has a
corresponding frequency spectrum. This includes familiar concepts such as
visible light (color), musical notes, radio/TV channels, and even the regular
rotation of the earth.
Often, the frequency spectrum clearly shows harmonics, visible as distinct
spikes or lines signal.
8. Neil Harbisson
A completely
colorblind musician
and painter perceives
the world in a new
way with help from
technology.
9. As a kid growing
up in Barcelona.
“I noticed that other students at school could identify colors
easier than me,” he recalls. “Then I knew there was a
problem with color.”
10. As a music composition student at the Dartington
College of Arts in England.
Harbisson approached the young
speaker,
cybernetics innovator Adam Montandon, then
at the University of Plymouth, to describe his condition
and ask if there might be a way to help him perceive
color.
11. Montandon then considered a device
that would simply say the names of
colors aloud, but this didn’t sit right
with him either. “I wanted to give
him something a bit more magical,”
Montandon recalls. Finally, he
thought about the physical
similarities of light and sound. “Light
is a wavelength that moves very
fast,” he says. “[If] you slow it down
enough, it stops becoming visible. It
starts becoming audible.”
12. In just 2 weeks’ time, Montandon and Harbisson created a device that
translated the light waves that correspond to different colors into sounds with
different pitches.
The prototype, constructed from an inexpensive computer webcam, a laptop
carried in a backpack, and a pair of old headphones, “It was fairly primitive,
but it was good enough”.
13. “Then he just ran off down the corridor…
I couldn’t stop him. He went to listen to absolutely
everything.”
Montandon.
Harbisson “hadn’t even
switched off the
computer.”
14. “It’s like listening to electronic
music” says Harbisson, who now
wears a refined version of the
device, which he calls an
“eyeborg.”
15. Today, the system comprises a camera that sticks out above
Harbisson’s head like an antenna, and a small computer chip
that converts light to sound. . “I receive color through the
bone, and I’m listening to you through the ears” Harbisson
says.
16. Indeed, Harbisson’s eyeborg
is catching the attention of
some musicians and artists.
The pianist Jools Holland, used a version of the device to
accompany live concerts held in 2009–2010 across the U.K.
“He likes to improvise, [so] we created a reverse system that
would turn his music into colors and lights as he played.”
23. How long did it take you to learn how to use it?
What is it like? Your world must look very different.
Tell me about your art
So, what is the colour of Mozart?
You create portraits too - how?
Here at TED they called you a sonochromatic artist cyborg.
What on earth is that?
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