Mrs. Synesthesia and Mr. Cymatics

Synesthesia. After reading up on what that term actually means, experimental films started to make more sense.  In ancient greek the term "Synesthesia" means "together."  This pertains to stimulation of the senses correlating with color, sound, and movement. Aha! It now makes somewhat sense. In experimentals, specifically the films that incorporate manipulation to the film stock, I didn't understand the cause or the meaning to why these certain shapes and colors related to the sound and movement.  Well, now that there is a coined term.... it makes the meaning have more of an understanding.  Sound does alter the way we look at certain objects or images.  For example, Norman McLaren's film that was shown to us, unfortunately I don't remember the name of it, the shapes of images moved to the Jazz music.  Similar to the topic of cymatics, certain objects, such as sand and water are influenced by the vibrations of sound.  Although the images on film strips are not truly influenced by the vibrations of sound, the filmmaker can alter the movement of the image to match the sound they chose to use in their film. Such as a line bouncing or "dancing" to the Jazz notes.  There is always a motivation or reason behind the certain images, their movements, and the sound that is projected in films.  
      Cymatics focuses more on the vibrations of objects caused by sound.  And although the Jurassic Park scene of the dinosaur's footsteps vibrating the the cup of water on the table comes to mind, it's not quite there with cymatics. Usually to demonstrate the theory of cymatics, sand and water is used.  Patterns of sand and water alter to the different vibrations and when the vibrations increase the pattern of sand alters into crazy shapes.  Stupid question.... Is that what visual stimulations of songs do to the bass of the music? Ya know when you hear a dub step song and you see those images going along with the vibrations of the song. I guess that is an example of cymatics....more so with technology than nature.

Reaction to Norman McLaren's film:
"I found this experimental very captivating and I may sound far fetched, but I felt like this film circulated around movement, more specifically dance.  The filmmaker introduces two separate images and combines them throughout his film.  Also, with the incorporation of Jazz and matching the movement of images with the beat, felt as if the subject of dance motivated the piece. Then again, nature and man made objects, such as houses, would flash on the screen.  I liked the art (images) in the film, but the piece was too long and started repeating itself too much. The music did somewhat of the same thing.  It was difficult to see al the flashing images and confusion was certainly present.  Job well done! I could never think of such creative images, which almost could serve as a cartoon."