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I can hear the colours, man! I can see the sounds! Science meets art in this trippy and visually gobsmacking short-form YouTube series, which has an additional 28-minute compilation episode available on ABC iView. It turns a laboratory into a film set, creating amazing effects by mixing chemical compounds and accompanying them with an expansive electro soundtrack from the Presets’ Kim Moyes.

Separated into episodes devoted to different scientific fields (electricity, energy, matter and magnetism), director Josef Gatti embraces the magic of chemistry rather than the magic of motion pictures. Or, to look at it another way, he demonstrates that they can be one and the same, finding the ultimate effects in properties that bind together the known universe – elements that are, in the words of Phenomena’s narrator, “written in the patterns of nature”.

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Written by Luke Buckmaster
Fri 31 Dec 2021 03.30 AEDT