On a less academic note, some people may recognize
Synaesthesia (note the alternate spelling for those of you at the other end of the
Thames) as one of the many creative
tangents of
Bill Leeb and
Rhys Fulber, the
techno-industrial duo most commonly known as
Front Line Assembly. Having
spawned several
side projects under various "band" names, each with their own approach to the duo's musical mission (see my unnecessarily extensive writeup at the
Front Line Assembly node), the Syneasthesia project (which yeilded three lp's) found Leeb and Fulber exploring a more
tribal-
ambient-
downbeat audio
landscape.
Oddly enough, the person credited with "writing" the actual compositions for Synaesthesia's first 2 releases is R. Deckard (you
Philip K. Dick and/or
Ridley Scott fans will have fun with this one). This, of course, is a little
game the boys played while working on these particular projects. They may very well have had to use this
pseudonym for contractual reasons (many of Front Line Assembly's side projects were recorded under smaller, European
record labels), but everyone knows it was Leeb and Fulber working the composer's pen (with some input from long-time studio pal
Chris Peterson who has now replaced Fulber who, as of late, is working with
Fear Factory and persuing solo projects).
Ok. Now back to the topic at hand...
Although the music is quite dreamy and almost
psychedelic (in a darker kind of way), there seems to be no real
connection between the project name and the neuropsychologocal
phenomenon (aside from this writeup). That's ok, it's a good name (and fun to say).
For those who are interested, these are the 3 lp's released by Synaesthesia (on the
Cleopatra label):
1.
Embody, 2.
Desideratum (double CD set), 3.
Ephemeral
Ciao!