Neil Harbisson artist, musician and performer best known for his self-extended ability to hear colours. He was able to see – or, more accurately, hear – colours for the first time. Harbisson has been fitted with a machine that turns colours into soundwaves, with a different sound representing each hue. The Eye-Borg, as it is known, features a head-mounted digital camera that reads the colours in front of Harbisson and converts them, via a laptop he carries in a backpack, into sound. Because of this, In 2010, he founded the Cyborg Foundation, an international organization to help humans become cyborgs.
"I now see my art as composing music on canvas," says Harbisson, who also now "hears colours" when listening to music – he recently went to a concert where the female performer sang shades of yellow and, he says, the whirr of his Hoover is red. "Before, I was slightly afraid of my art. But now, it's completely different. I am having so much fun with it, painting masses of objects that all have sounds." - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/alternativemedicine/3313425/Eyes-opened-to-sound-of-socks.html
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