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In today’s episode, we take a slightly different angle. We explore color through the eyes of a professional who works with music. Operatic mezzo-soprano Emily Harmon shares how music affects her vision and her extraordinary relationship with color through synesthesia.

I found our conversation fascinating, and it led me to question how a color grade could be shaped by the emotion of the moment, even at a subconscious level.
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Synesthesia: a perceptual phenomenon in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway. – Wikipedia
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• (00:00) - - Introduction
• (01:00) - - Emily Harmon introduction
• (02:37) - - What is a crossover artist?
• (05:30) - - Opera & Color?
• (09:55) - - Can it be overwhelming?
• (11:16) - - How did you find out you had Synesthesia?
• (13:58) - - Do the colors always match the sound?
• (15:27) - - Does vision induce hearing sounds?
• (17:54) - - Synesthesia and feature films
• (19:25) - - Do the tones of color come into this?
• (21:21) - - Do adjacent keys share similar colors?
• (23:44) - - Wrap up
• (24:09) - - Closing Remarks

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The Color Timer podcast aims to speak with professionals who work with color.

Yet, so often, I fall into the habit of speaking with professionals closer to my field of film and television, but I really do want to cast the further and learn from professionals working in other disciplines—that is what we are doing in this episode!

Anna Evans is a contemporary New Zealand landscape painter, children’s book illustrator, mural painter, and games artist.

With so many talents at her disposal, who better to learn about color from?

I discovered Anna while watching an Instagram video she made about color mixing that challenges some of the fundamental things we learned in art class as children. I was totally hooked by the way Anna explained things.

Her passion for color and the threads of science that keep popping up throughout our conversation make this an episode for both technicians and artists. Anna’s work is beautiful, so after listening to our chat, please check it out through the links below.

It made me wonder, whose art most inspires and provokes you to try new color grading techniques?
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Editor: Rich Roddman
Executive Producer: https://mixinglight.com
Podcast Home: https://colortimerpodcast.mixinglight.com

• (00:00) - - Introduction
• (01:12) - - Anna's background and journey
• (02:08) - - And... the timer begins
• (02:48) - - The painter's primary colors
• (05:18) - - Mixing with light
• (08:08) - - Anna's color palette
• (09:02) - - Painting birds
• (12:28) - - New inspiration
• (14:11) - - Painting as a jazz performance
• (16:19) - - What kind of paint do you use?
• (16:53) - - Do you force yourself to paint?
• (17:59) - - Is there a color that you tend to avoid?
• (19:09) - - Thoughts on the King Charles portrait
• (21:36) - - Get the Color Timer T-Shirt!

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Today, I will be speaking to Jason Bowdach. Jason is a fellow contributor here on Mixing Light. He is a colorist and online editor with an impressive CV that includes major networks such as Fox and Disney. Jason creates a suite of colorist tools through his company, PixelTools. Jason shares what inspires him to create software offerings for the industry and his approach to a new project. He also has an interesting view on AI / Machine Learning and its likely impact on our industry.

This is putting the shoe on the other foot at last. Jason has his very cool podcast, Color & Coffee, on which I was a guest, so now it’s time for Jason to answer some of my questions! Outside of Pixel Tools and his own grading work, Jason also teaches about color and post-workflow, so he keeps fairly busy, to say the least.

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Editor: Rich Roddman
Executive Producer: https://mixinglight.com
Podcast Home: https://colortimerpodcast.mixinglight.com

• (00:00) - - Introduction
• (02:29) - - Starting the Timer: What is Pixel Tools?
• (05:27) - - How LUTs inspired PixelTools' first product
• (08:08) - - How do you reverse engineering a LUT?
• (11:36) - - How Jason got into DCTLs
• (14:53) - - Exploring filmic contrast
• (18:20) - - What is Jason's take on AI?
• (20:23) - - Closing remarks