Visual Music

Great for teams of any size | 60min | Minimum $1000

About Synesthesia

Synesthesia is the crossing over of senses and found in 2-4% of the population. Some people can see colors and shapes when they listen to music, while others associate certain numbers and letters with specific colors, or hear a sound when they eat certain foods.
Many people have synesthesia and don’t realize it until they are much older! Research believes that all babies are born with synesthesia where the senses are all connected! As we age, we begin to learn how to sort and categorize and put names to things.
People with synethesia have scored higher on memory and intelligence test and it’s found more commonly among creatives.
Outcomes of Visual Music include sensory awakening, enhanced listening, synching brain waves with colleagues, and enhanced collaboration.
Research has shown that music creates a sense of belonging and connection faster than any other activity. Authentic connection happens when you realized you see and hear the same way as a colleague, or finding out that someone has synesthesia all along, and empathy results when you learn how you hear and see differently from a colleague.

About This Event

Led by a globally recognized composer, Visual Music explores how our sense of hearing and seeing can work in concert to more fully experience our world.
Utilizing both sides of the brain, we will transform visual shapes into sounds, and sounds into graphic abstraction in a one hour virtual session led by composer and artist Nathan Hall.
This fun visual-sonic collage is filled with laughter and reveals how each person thinks and perceives in a unique way.
Visual Music is perfect for creative team building, DE&I and Neuro-divergent ERG workshops, and empathy-building communication skills workshop.
As an ice breaker, everyone will share their favorite sound (and nothing boring like the sound of the ocean).
We will translate sounds to abstract drawing and drawings back into sound (see video below for how Nathan Hall acts out his favorite drawing, guess what the sound is before you hit play!).
For the main exercise, we will listen to a music compilation and use the Piccles digital drawing tool to create a sonic collage where everyone will illustrate what they hear. You will be amazed to see how everyone hears and sees differently! That’s true empathy!

About 28Muses

Nathan Hall, Visual Music Cultivator
Nathan Hall is a composer and artist who uses music as a tool to explore a variety of fields including science, nature, the fine arts, history, and sexuality. He's a former Fulbright Fellow to Iceland, a McKnight Visiting Composer, and he holds his Doctorate in Musical Arts from CU Boulder. His works have been performed and exhibited in 12 US States and 14 countries.
Alyssa Gundred, Event host & CEO of 28Muses
Alyssa Gundred is the Cofounder & CEO of 28Muses. Previously she was a Creative Director and Head of Ops and HR for Myriad360 where she grew the company from a small business to over 150 employees and $100mm in revenues.
The mission of 28Muses is to cultivate creative power through wonder and play to build the 4 pillars of highly performing teams: culture, DE&I, innovation, and wellness.
The secrete sauce to every 28Muses event is unique human expression contained in a safe space where everyone feels seen and heard.
By design, everyone’s work will turn out different allowing each person’s unique lens and personality to shine through.
When team members share how they see and interpret things differently and how they approached the task at hand, it results in true empathy and an authentic lasting connection.

Visual Music is perfect for virtual creative team building and any team looking for exercises for culture, creativity, innovation, DE&I and wellness.

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