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A Mallarmé poem is typically a soufflé of synaesthetic delights, served up to all five senses with the icy skill of a Paris head waiter, crying out for orchestration by Debussy and illustrations by Manet.

From The Guardian • Jun. 15, 2012

While some film-makers devise a separate role for sight and sound, Cunningham obsesses over "Mickey mousing" every beat to perfection, creating a synaesthetic episode.

From The Guardian • Apr. 27, 2010

Regardless of how a virtual experience is made possible-drawings, diagrams, combinations of images and sounds, triggered dreams, happenings, or the digital embodiment of virtual reality-it escapes literacy-based constraints and embodies new languages, especially synaesthetic languages.

From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Nadin, Mihai