‘Hear’ this Kandinsky painting with Google’s psychedelic AI tool

Google has launched a new AI tool that lets you listen to the sounds that famed artist Vassily Kandinsky may have heard as he painted. The experiment explores the artist’s synesthesia, a neurological condition that causes one sense to trigger another. In Kandinsky’s case, he’d see colors and shape when he heard music, and hear music when he painted. The abstract art pioneer tried to evoke the sensation through his artworks and writings: The sound of colors is so definite that it would be hard to find anyone who would express bright yellow with bass notes or dark lake with treble.…

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