“Jun Yonezawa is a rare artist whose stunning craft and imaginal palette ranges from the mundane to the deeply sacred. As it has affected me as a composer, her work will mesmerize, inspire and lead you to unexpected places within.”
Synesthesia Project – A new artistic project in collaboration with composer Frank Weber – Since 2019, Jun and Frank have been cultivating their inspirationally collaborative partnership in “Arts Meet Music”, eventually leading them to the current creative experimentations called “Synesthesia Project”. Synesthesia by definition is :“the fact of experiencing some things in a different way from most other people, for example experiencing colors as sounds, experiencing shapes as tastes, or feeling something in one part of the body when a different part is stimulated.” (Oxford Learner’s Dictionaries) “As we create our works in collaborative manner, specifically, Frank creates music by looking at my art pieces, and then I create my art pieces by listening to his music. We could only approach that process remotely due to the pandemic situation. When we were able to locate ourselves in person, we challenge ourselves to be as purely creative as possible, meaning, we try not to get biased by any sorts of information such as by providing titles of art pieces or songs, themes of works, and so on. When I listen to Frank’s music, I notice music as color, texture and some forms of movement among them, as an image. It is comparable to anthropomorphic traits relating to colors and sounds. For example, once a collection of sound to me was as if it was forming small particles of flower petals in pale pinks and purples and greens moving and shaping two ovals connecting one to another, and eventually forming a symbol of infinity. We started to be more interested in our creative nature…how we process our sensory perceptions to create art or music in a form of synesthetic collaboration. Hearing colors, seeing sounds…seeing music as color and image, and vice vasa as music.” (Jun) The pieces titled “One” displayed on the wall at this exhibition are one of the works from their synesthetic experiments in 2022. Frank originally picked one of three pieces of Jun’s art works and created a piece of improvisational music as he visually captures Jun’s art piece, without knowing the title or concept of the piece. Jun, then created a piece of art by listening to the music which Frank had just created, again, not knowing which piece Frank had chosen nor the title …simply by listening to the music. The consequence was very interesting. Frank expressed in his music, two different worlds intertwining each other, while Jun created two different worlds in form of 2 ovals connecting one to another…becoming the figure of “Infinity”. To Jun, each note of sound seemed to have its own color, and the flow of notes gave her strong image of movement, while for Frank, colors and dynamics of art piece gave him a flow of sound. Based on the way colors and sounds are experienced by artists with synesthetic nature, their physical sense adds to another to create something new… unconsciously expressed and retrieved from nowhere…It is a mysterious part of our human nature.
2019 Wax art work created for FRANK WEBER’s 4th released album“TRUE LOVE”
2019 Wax art work created for FRANK WEBER’s 5th released album“UNSPOKEN”
“In Your Gleaming Eye”from the album “Unspoken” by Frank Weber Copyright 2019 All rights reserved by Frank Weber
Copyright 2019, 2022 All rights reserved by Frank Weber