My Kaleidoscope: Music, Time, Space
Los Angeles, CA
My Kaleidoscope is a projection-based installation exploring the neurological phenomenon of synesthesia and its relationship to music, memory, and temporal perception. The audiovisual environment created a space where visitors could experience the interplay between music, color, and memory, examining how sonic spaces transport us through time. The installation was completed as a senior thesis project for an Honors in Multimedia Scholarship from the Media Arts + Practice division of USC School of School of Cinematic Arts.
Year: 2015
Medium: Projection-based audiovisual installation
Location: School of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California
Advisor: Raphael Arar (Creative Coding)
Technical: Custom software, projection mapping
Support: Media Arts + Practice Division
Born from a personal investigation into the relationship between music and memory, My Kaleidoscope traced how early sonic encounters create lasting neural pathways that influence our perception and emotional responses. With programmed lights, curated sounds, installed with a contained space, the work invited visitors to explore their own synesthetic tendencies – those moments when sensory boundaries blur and music becomes color, memory becomes present moment.
The project marked an early exploration of themes that would become central to my practice: the role of technology in mediating human perception, the power of multi-sensory environments to facilitate transformation, and the complex interplay between individual and collective memory. This project drew inspiration from electronic musicians like Flying Lotus who, at the time, were pairing advanced, live show technologies with their experimental music sets to amplify the emotive and spatial qualities of sound. My Kaleidoscope aimed to contribute to this conversation by proposing updated ways of framing music as a media that goes beyond mere entertainment, into realms of science and technology.
