Grain of Voice and Synaesthesia

Synaesthesia is where you can picture the sounds of the music in your mind, in order to connect with the audience to provide additional pleasure. The way in which this works is that you need to listen to music and work out they way in which the song works and feel the mood of the song. Synaesthesia can evoke a shape or an image which you associate the song with, for example, if the song had drums banging, each bang would created a circle to emphasis the impact of the bang. A good example of this would be White Stripes by Seven Nation Army, as they use triangles, diamonds each tie the drums are played to create synaethesia. More often, cuts are used with synaethesia so that it is in time with the beat, just is normal in music videos whether its a performance or a narrative. 

Furthermore, the theory of behind ‘Grain of voice’ by Roland Barthes applies to Synaethesia particularly as Barthes sees the voice as a unique 'expressive tool' that as fore-mentioned is completely unique which allows the singer to create associations for themselves or even a sort of trademark. This ties in with the star image as many have their own distinct voices, fro example Michael Jackson and Whitney Houston who both have a voice that nobody else has heard from anybody else before, thats why Barthes calls it a unique express tool. These artists that stand out purely by using their vocal abilities.