Oliver Sacks - Musicophilia - Bright Blue Music

[KAYUMPERCUSION]

Very interesting, thanks you!

[PennyDreadful1]

Yellow for me but I dont have synesthesia. Thats just the first colour that comes up when I think of D major. Blue might be A major. B minor might be violet.

[rachoote]

Oliver Sacks says no two syntesthetes will ever agree. Both my sister and I have sound to colour synesthesia, and we both see the same colours for the same sounds. D major to us is either dark green or dark brown, and blue is Bb major.

[mactraxx23]

N.E.R.D. Seeing Sounds

[PepeInRedAndGreen]

I see music, not only the colours but shapes and texture as well. For example, a sound may be yellow, long and silky for me (high notes) or brown, round and rough (lower notes). I have a feeling that I almost can't hear music, I can only see it.. And it's really hard for me to imagine that other people do not experience these sensations ;] What's interesting, I don't have a perfect pitch, in fact I'm almost tone-deaf ;p I don't know if there's any relationship between synesth.&musicallity..?

[Myrtone]

D major is dark blue to me.

[RoderichEdelstein727]

@Myrtone definitely yellow.

[akseci452]

I met my first synesthete when I was at Berklee... she was a piano player, and I was absolutely floored when she talked to me about it... very interesting!

[SlyFox616]

The composer Franz Liszt was a synesthete. While conducting he would often ask the orchestra during rehearsal to repeat play a particular passage "...a little bluer please." The orchestra merely thought he was being artistically metaphorical and not literal, lol. Rimsky-Korsakov was another synesthete. He and Liszt once had a famous and inflammatory debate as to the color of one of Beethoven's(?) works, much to the confusion and bewilderment of everyone else.

[trumpetfish1]

How much do synestesiacs differ in perception of color/pitch relations? The color blue, as mentioned, coresponds in wavelength to the pitch 'D'...... would another synastesiac say red, or purple?

or is the synestetic perception not based on wavelengths necessarily, rather on what the mind creates in reaction to stimuli?

I think you can 'teach' yourself to become synesthetic, im optimistic i guess. we're capable of anything.

[ShmulikCat]

i have it and when i told my friends words, letters, and numbers all have genders, colors and personalities, they looked at me like, "what ahve you been eating today? what wrong with you?"

i felt like a freak, but then they started going, "what color is my name? wat;s my names personality? wat color is this? wat color is that???"

then they FINALLY got over it!! lol

[ChrisDavies700]

Has anyone been successful in teaching themselves synesthesia by repeated assosiations with colour and sound

[eliptikus]

I have synesthesia, but I don"t think "teaching" it is possible. Of course you can make a table and you can decide that for you the violin will have blue color but this doesn't mean that you will actually see blue color whenever you hear a violin.

[sadunkal]

@ChrisDavies700 No, but I also suspect it may be possible. I think that synesthesia may be the result of unconscious mental habits one develops as a child. Over time such associations become a part of their "nature"... perhaps... and if that's the case I don't see why adults shouldn't be able to train themselves to be synesthetic too.

[aliasmax23]

What is frequency of blue light with wavelength of 550 nanometers?

f=c/lambda

frequency = 299792458 divided by wavelength

The freq is in Kilohertz, and the wavelength is in meters. A nanometer is one billionth of a meter. I'll let you figure out how to move the decimals points.