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Sociedad de Etnomusicología
2006
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- Beautiful fragments of a traumatic memory: synaesthesia, sesame street, and hearing the colors of an abusive past Silent Jane Arte This paper tells the story of a woman who experiences sound-color synaesthesia, theinvoluntary ability to experience music as beautiful colors and luminous visual textures.As her story unfolds, so does the story of synaesthesia itself, a phenomenon most oftenunderstood in certain Western scholarly discourses to be a neurological deficiency orcross-wiring, but which also frequently takes on the role of a savant-like gift, amysterious power associated with autistic mathematical geniuses and creative artists.Silent Janes synaesthesia story, however, is found to be crucially associated with hermemories of being sexually abused as a childmemories that, as recent scholarly workon post-traumatic stress disorder theorizes, do not conform to typical causal, sequential,or temporal recollections, but exist rather as fragmented, sensorially-based visual andsomatic flashbacks triggered primarily by the sonic: specific colored timbres, acousticspaces, and the unique yet ubiquitous (television- and radio-based) sounds of onespast. Silent Jane traces these sound-color somatics through a close acoustic reading oftelevision shows and popular songs from her youth, materials that she believes werewitnesses to the abuse she endured and became acoustic-spatial reliquaries of secretsthat she was not able to assimilate as a young child. Her broken acoustemology ofsilenced sexual trauma demonstrates that repressed traumatic memories can oftenfunction within an unconscious system of sensory transfers and exchanges, a delicatecognitive cryptography that, in transforming atrocious details into beautiful fragments, canalso transform the traumatic event from an experience that destroys us into one thatreconstitutes us, heightens our sensory awareness of the world, and makes us who weare. 2006 artículo científico 1697-0101 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=82201004 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=822 Trans. Revista Transcultural de Música application/pdf Sociedad de Etnomusicología Trans. Revista Transcultural de Música (España) Num.10