They ‘see’ music,smell colours,feel flavour. What’s it like to have synaesthesia?
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They ‘see’ music,smell colours,feel flavour. What’s it like to have synaesthesia?

Zinia is a composer who literally sees her music take shape. But it’s not just artists who experience this rare “crossover of the senses”. How does it work?

  • byJackson Graham

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