- Daniel Tammet
Daniel Paul Tammet (b. January 31, 1979; London, England) is a British autistic savant, gifted with a facility for mathematics problems, sequence memory, and natural language learning. He was born with congenital childhood epilepsy.
- Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov was a Russian-American author. Nabokov wrote his first literary works in Russian, but rose to international prominence as a masterly prose English stylist for the novels he composed in the United States. He is also noted for having made significant contributions to lepidoptery and creating a number of chess problems. Nabokov's "Lolita" (1955) is frequently cited as his most important novel, …
- John Mayer
John Clayton Mayer (born October 16, 1977) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. Originally from Connecticut, he briefly attended Berklee College of Music before moving to Atlanta, Georgia in 1998, where he refined his skills and began gaining a following. His first two studio albums, "Room for Squares" and "Heavier Things", both did well commercially, achieving multi-platinum status.
- Olivier Messiaen
Olivier Messiaen was a French composer, organist, and ornithologist. He entered the Paris Conservatoire at the age of 11, and numbered Paul Dukas, Maurice Emmanuel, Charles-Marie Widor and Marcel Dupré among his teachers. He was appointed organist at the church of La Trinité in Paris in 1931, a post he held until his death. On the fall of France in 1940 Messiaen was made a prisoner of war, …
- Alexander Scriabin
Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin (Russian: Александр Николаевич Скрябин, "Aleksandr Nikolaevič Skrjabin"; sometimes transliterated as Skryabin or Scriabine (6 January 1872-27 April 1915) was a Russian composer and pianist.
- Franz Liszt
Franz Liszt was a Hungarian virtuoso pianist and composer of the Romantic period. He was a renowned performer throughout Europe during the 19th century, noted especially for his showmanship and great skill with the piano. Today, he is considered to be one of the greatest pianists in history, despite the fact that no recordings of his playing exist. Liszt is frequently credited with re-defining piano playing itself, and his influence is still visible today, …
- Patricia Lynne Duffy
Patricia Lynne Duffy is an instructor in the UN Language and Communications Programme. She has an M.A. from Teachers College, Columbia University. She is an Acting Officer of the UN Society of Writers and its liaison to the UN 1% for Development Fund. Duffy is the author of "Blue Cats and Chartreuse Kittens: How Synesthetes Color their Worlds", which has been reviewed in both the popular press as well as in academic journals, Cerebrum and the APA Review of Books.
- David Eagleman
David Eagleman is the director of the Laboratory for Perception and Action at Baylor College of Medicine. He holds joint appointments in Psychology, Biomedical Engineering, and the Institute for Neuroscience at UT Austin, as well as an adjunct appointment in Psychology at Rice University. He earned his Ph.D. at Baylor College of Medicine, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at the Salk Institute.
- James Wannerton
James Wannerton from Blackpool, England, experiences Lexical-Gustatory Synaesthesia - he "tastes" words or word sounds. A committee member of the UK Synaesthesia Association, Wannerton has been the subject of detailed research carried out by the University College London and the University of Edinburgh regarding his synaesthetic condition. His interests in synaesthesia extend to researching cognitive perception, intuition, …
- Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov, also "Nikolay", "Nicolai", and "Rimsky-Korsakoff", (March 6 (N.S. March 18), 1844 - June 8 (N.S. June 21) 1908) was a Russian composer, one of five Russian composers known as The Five, and was later a teacher of harmony and orchestration. He is particularly noted for a predilection for folk and fairy-tale subjects, and for his extraordinary skill in orchestration, which may have been influenced by his synesthesia.
- Hélène Grimaud
Hélène Grimaud is a French pianist. She was born in Aix-en-Provence, France. She is of Corsican, German, North African and Jewish heritage. Her family changed its name from Grimaldi before she was born. She has described herself as an "extremely agitated" child, having a problem over-focusing; she was a give-her-all-or-none type of child. She discovered the piano at seven. She entered the Paris Conservatory in 1982 where she studied with Jacques Rouvier.
- Michael Torke
American composer Michael Torke (born September 22 1961 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin), graduated from Wauwatosa East High School, studied at the Eastman School of Music with Joseph Schwantner and Christopher Rouse, and at Yale University, and writes music influenced by jazz and minimalism. Sometimes described as a post-minimalist, his most postminimal piece is "Four Proverbs", …
- Amy Beach
Amy Marcy Cheney Beach (September 5, 1867 - December 27, 1944) was an American composer and pianist. She was the first successful American female composer of large-scale art music. Most of her compositions and performances were under the name Mrs. H.H.A. Beach.
- Justin Chancellor
Justin Gunnar Walte Chancellor (born November 19, 1971) is an English-born musician; currently the bass player for Tool and formerly of the band Peach. Chancellor is of Norwegian descent and he speaks the language fluently. Since settling in the US, along with his engagement in his musical projects, he and his wife Shelee run a store called Lobal Orning in Topanga, California, dedicated to music, literature and film "that shaped and changed" both of them.
- Solomon Shereshevskii
Solomon Veniaminovich Shereshevskii, also known simply as 'S' ('Ш'), was a Russian journalist and mnemonist. He became famous after an anecdotic event in which he was told off for not taking any notes while attending a speech in the mid-1920s. To the astonishment of everyone there (and to his own also, due to his belief that everybody had such an ability to recall), he could recall the speech perfectly, word by word.
- Manu Katché
Manu Katché is a French musician, born in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés on October 27 1958. Though he is also a well-experienced and talented songwriter, he is most notably and widely regarded for his passionate, stylish and ultimately unique skill of playing drums. He was sky-rocketed to stardom in the music world in the mid-1980s mostly thanks to the huge success of Peter Gabriel's 1986 album "So" and his subsequent work with Sting.
- Netochka Nezvanova
Netochka Nezvanova is the enigmatic author of nato.0+55+3d, a set of QuickTime externals for Max/MSP. Alternate and retired aliases include "=cw4t7abs", "punktprotokol", "0f0003", "maschinenkunst" (preferably spelled "m2zk!n3nkunzt"), "integer", and "antiorp". Her name is a pseudonym borrowed from the main character of Fyodor Dostoevski's first novel "Netochka Nezvanova" (1849) which translates loosely as "nameless nobody." Famous for her temperamental behaviour, …
- William Henry Farrow
Dr. William Henry Farrow (20 June 1805? - 17 November 1876) was a physician born and trained in England. Practiced in Montreal and Toronto. Most notable for providing one of the first detailed descriptions of synesthesia, a condition then not yet defined. Farrow reported the details of the illness, (in this case temporary) in an article published in the Lower Canada Journal of Medicine
- Bonnie Greer
Bonnie Greer (born November 16 1948) is a Chicago born playwright and critic. She studied theatre in Chicago with David Mamet and in New York with Elia Kazan. She has lived in the UK since 1986, where she has worked mainly in theatre with women and ethnic minorities. She has won a Verity Bargate Award for Best New Play and has played Joan of Arc on the Paris stage. She has had many plays produced by BBC Radios 3 and 4, including a translation of The Little Prince, …
- Skylar Synesthesia
- Sydney [synesthesia]
- Laurent Bazet
Serial entrepreneur now leading a new online advertising marketplace.
- Synesthesia
well if i was to state that i was interestin in order to get your attention i would be lying, i am your average pot smoking, coke taking, music loving bass player who is in a band really!
- Benjamin Greene
I don't really use this site anymore...
- Jason
If you catch me after I've gotten off the phone with my grandparents, you might realize that I'm not from around here. Maybe that's why I dance in the subway while the rest of the.
- Elisabeth Seng
Virginia-born and raised, of Midwestern descent. Having graduated from UVA, preparing for many adventures ahead (including grad school). Pursuits include: compassion, intensive reading, attempting to reconcile paradoxes, living well (in every sense), a distrust of bureaucracies, just about all things written, and still learning. Goals: Wisdom, courage, strength, love. Never condescend, never settle.
- Stephanie Smith
"Birds can fly, and fish can swim. But on this planet where do I fit in? I could be in trouble. Or just imagining. Sometimes I feel like an alien..." - Shakespear's Sister.
- Steve
I prefer the green racquetballs to the blue and purple ones. I'm ENTJ (www.typelogic.com), just like Al Gore. I can't commit to buying any grown-up furniture.;.
- Melanie Cauble
I have synesthesia. I'm getting my masters in holistic counseling psychology. I don't know my limits so I overwork myself. I'm engaged to a wonderful man! I enjoy intelligent discussions/debates about what is possible. I'm also looking for new interests and hobbies, and willing to try new things.
- Morgan Ritter
inspiration ricochets boing boing boing.
- Ruby
image hosting.
- Camille Hebert
gin & tonics and madame george, sleeping in dark cabins, wet wood, shakira, mini skirts and dancing, spinning, sleeping, brick streets, love & giddyness, phone calls, drums are *love*, hipster music, tanlines, coral, mamas, water and funk, wrestling and fire, toast and summer. this beautiful life.
- Jill Tomaszewski
"She longed for the times of emotional unavailability....".
- Dan
Tall and affable. Ready for an adventure, fighting stagnancy.
- Jane Porter
Always mistaken for someone someone knows. No, you didn't see me in Tesco's last night. No, I'm not Sophie's daughter. No, I don't work in Hare on the Hill. I'm not shy, then I'm shy, then I'm not shy again. I have the same whole name as Tarzan's girlfriend. My sister says I look like an air stewardess with twenty children. I prefer to think I look like a little boy who, when he grows up, wants to be a secretary.
- Matthew Schweitzer
More Free MySpace Backgrounds.
- Jennifer McKenzie
I'm a student, a future architect, a daisy fresh girl.
- Chip Drumbor
Go read The Hidden Messages In Water by Masaru Emoto http://www.masaru-emoto.net I love ManCock.
- Juan
i used to think i had touretts but then i realized i'm just a drunk. I like tequila and whisky. I don't like apples. I know for a fact that "beggin strips" really do taste like bacon, the regular ones, not that cheese flavored shit. I'm very loyal to my friends and if you're bad to my friends i can gut you like a fish, i have the technology. i'm probably the most loyal person you'll ever meet.
- Mary Bohan
tall, dark, and handsome; devastatingly witty with an understated flair.