Ever since I was a child, I’ve been aware that I experience what’s known as synesthesia – the crossing over of one form of sensory input to another. This happens in many different ways in different people, but in my case, I experience sound as eidetic imagery – visuals that play on the screen of my imagination.
Immersive audio technologies like Dolby Atmos dramatically enhance this experience in the spatial domain, and I’m thrilled that my studio is finally geared up to support it … it feels like I’ve been working towards this my entire life.
Milo discovers what applause looks like,
from Norton Juster’s classic The Phantom Tollbooth.
Illustration by Jules Feiffer