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Music Event, Media and new Research Projects
Dr Anina Rich from the Synaesthesia Research Group @ Macquarie University is looking for participants who have spatial forms for months of the year for a simple study involving to-scale drawings. She is also looking for research participants with synesthesias for sounds or smells for a different project. If you have a mental spatial image or representation of a calendar, or syneshtesia induced by sounds or smells she would love to hear from you! You can contact Anina on syn.research@maccs.mq.edu.au, or look up the website: http://www.maccs.mq.edu.au/research/projects/synaesthesia/
 
Synesthesia Music and Art Exhibition in Melbourne - February
 
 Tracey Roberts is a visual artist as well as an accomplished singer-songwriter, musician and performing artist.
 
Her work is also an exploration into the intriguing world of those gifted with music-colour synesthesia. In Tracey's case, she sees colours and shapes when she hears music.
 
Accompanying this most interesting and vibrantly colourful art, will be a series of workshops, concerts, talks and information sessions that will encourage people to understand how they perceive art, and music - perhaps in quite new ways.
 
 
 

UK Synaesthesia conference March 2010

The UKSA wil host their conference at Brighton, England in March 2010.

Conference registration is now open and abstracts for papers and posters being presented  is available online.

UKSA ConferenceInformation is here. 

WELCOME to the Australian Synesthesia website.
 
This website is devoted to promoting Australian related activities on Synesthesia. (We are also building up some New Zealand information as well.)
 
We have pages on types of synesthesia, activites in Australia / NZ and links to other really great synesthesia sites.  
 
We hope to make it a portal for the exchange of information, and perhaps even a place to stimulate ideas.  We hope to establish a Synesthesia Association for Australia and New Zealand, so if youre interested in helping or finding out more please contact me.
If you are a synesthete please visit the contacts page and leave us your email so we can keep you up to date with the latest events and information about synesthesia. You can also tell us if you would like to help us out by participating in important research projects.


Macquarie Universities Centre for Cognitive Sciences
is also conducting research. You can contact them by visiting their synesthesia webpage. Currently with the
Monash University they are conducting a study on Pain and Synesthesia.

The University of Queensland - Perception Lab is also looking at Color and the visual System in Synesthesia. If you live in Queensland they would be happy to hear from you.  

Sydney Universities Color Form and Motion Lab has research projects running currently, investigating color letters and words as well as sound to color and shape Synesthesia.  If you are interested in participating in research on synesthesia this lab has ethics approved non invasive experiments running currently and is always happy to hear from synesthetes interested in participating. Email us to find out more.

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A great way to find out more about synesthesia is to talk with some other synesthetes. If that appeals to you then register for more information. we hope to have some events for synesthetes, their families and friends in Australia, probably starting in NSW.
You can also use this site to start your research on the web. We have a links page that will take you to sites from internationally renowned researchers in the field, as well as prominant synesthete artists, musicians as well as students and others. We recommend joining Sean Day's email list as well. Its a great way to see how other synesthetes experience the world. See the links page for that.

Another great way is to go to one of the annual international conferences. These conferences usually combine researchers and synesthetes. These are held in the USA, the UK and in Spain.

Latest research and conferences
USA
Click here to see the details for the USA Synesthesia Association conference: 
 
UK- Brighton, England, March 2010
Conference registration and abstracts now available online
Click here to see the details for the UK Synesthesia conference and their call for papers:
 
SPAIN - Synesthesia, Science and Art – 3rd International Conference. Spain, Granada, 2009 
Click here to see the details for the International Synesthesia conference in Spain and their call for papers:

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*     I attended this conference in 2007– there were many terrific papers presented but the most interesting was that there was a mix of researchers and synesthetes and artists. Quite a combination. A link to the abstracts of papers presented is here.

 

Current activities


We would like to help promote any activity you might be running in Australia or NZ if you're a synesthete. Please email me and let me know.
Check out:
www.chrisandcatherine.net:  Australia's superlative scottish music duo.
http://www.thestruttsisters.com/music.htm Catherine Strutt - a synesthete is playing the National Folk Festival over the Easter weekend at Canberra with her synesthete sister Jennifer.
Mathew Taylors website for any exhibitions, new books, stories etc; and
The Red Paintings website for concert dates which will be posted soon; and

Australian Synesthesia in the news.

Latest news articles on Synesthesia appearing in major papers or other places.

Why some people taste like earwax - Catherine Deveny. The Age. March 10, 2007

Please get in touch with any comments or reactions to the site. Particularly let me know if you think I should include anything on it or if I have something wrong.