The Colour of Sound - Documentary

[FaustIV]

Interesting, but no sound or color for, sad/sorrow/misery/fear/death/a­nger etc? Just positive, sure as hell music isn't all positive

[DanMcCaffrey]

It's subjective when it's done poorly. But it's also a means of composition, not the end. Key is the core of it but there's also tempo, rhythm, dynamics, lyrics, arrangement or course. You can make a "sad" or "happy" in any key of course. But B minor is just sadder than F# minor. But you're proving my point for me - D should leave you cold (smooth, subtle, what have you), it's one of it not the coldest keys Blue. So is E - Purple. And Fleetwood Mac always leaves me cold anyways. {rimshot}

[Redflowers9]

0:00 - 0:03 is like strangling a little bird... that's what colour springs to mind

[damondixonmusician]

very good :) i liked it.

[AdmiringObserverR]

@sharingfeelings they are the inbetween ones, probably correlary to the inbetween notes, flats and sharps, etc.

[Geckuno]

Hi where can I find the transfer function mentioned in the video? I would be very happy if you could reply. Thank you.

[DJSilvershare]

This video doesn't makes sense.

Visible light is Transversal - electromagnetic wave.

While sound is Longitudinal - Air pressure wave.

Therefore, I once wondered, how if we, normal humans, were colorblind ?

I mean, what if there's something out there that could see the real "color" of Infrared and UV ?

(in fact, we are Infrared and UV-colorblind)

What if there's some entity whose visible light spectrum is expanded ?

What color will this entity see ?

[Geckuno]

@DJSilvershare and how does this video doesn't make sense?

[GodEquals3]

7 colours? XD

[ThatGuyInTheBasement]

GGGGGGGGGGGGGGG

[jamesbanni]

so funny how seriously some people take things on youtube! good work t-ray funny as!

[jamesbanni]

so funny how seriously some people take things on youtube! good work t-ray funny as!

[jdgrahamo]

It's meant to be a joke. Shame it's not funny. By the way, there are only six colours in the spectrum not seven. Go and look at a rainbow.

[drkz4ck]

I think that, unconsciously, you're just gonna associate sounds you like the most to collors you like the most, and sounds you like the least to collors you like the least...

Symbols don't mean the exact same thing to everyone. Some do, but others just don't.

To some, orange might mean vibrating and happy and etecetera, but for me, at most of the times, it means boring and dull, hahahahah '^^

[acousticgrooven]

One of the scientists looks kind of like a chubby Omar Rodriguez.. Kind of. C is yellow for me. D Is green E is like a dark Turquiose blue. F is Grey G is brown/sandy baige. A is red B is a dark navy blue Randomly I think this may have helped me with guitar. B makes me thing of my ex girl friend

[acousticgrooven]

One of the scientists looks kind of like a chubby Omar Rodriguez.. Kind of.

C is yellow for me.

D Is green

E is like a dark Turquiose blue.

F is Grey

G is brown/sandy baige.

A is red

B is a dark navy blue

Randomly I think this may have helped me with guitar.

[acousticgrooven]

One of the scientists looks kind of like a chubby Omar Rodriguez.. Kind of.

[mello5in1]

waoooooooooooooooooooooooooooo­oooo

[unclesamfatg]

For me is A red and G is brown.

[philnoll]

This is ridiculous. Light is a continuous spectrum which encompasses visible wave lengths and non-visible wave lengths, sound works the same way. So ultra-violet = dog whistle and Infrared = Alpha waves. There is no relation between musical keys and color.

[golulugo]

This is amazing...thank you..

[showmethelab]

you're welcome :)

[DanMcCaffrey]

@showmethelab Fantastic information. But the color of notes differs from the colors of the keys. This doesn't make sense, and isn't explained thoroughly 1:50 - 2:20 is confusing - especially the keyboard demonstration. Doesn't that conflict with the chart at 0:43 ? Furthermore doesn't the difference of tuning in the 1800's come into play? I believe Huberts D, B, and G were different from ours.

[georgia507]

wasn't it Brahms who when watching an orchestra play, saw vivid colours?

[Skidawg53]

I think these guys were bullshitting, in one picture shown for the Sound Vs. Light they had B colored as Green, then when they show the Sound & Feeling graph they have B colored as Red, which pictured is correctly illustrated???

[borisbmx]

there is some herb tonic in the amazon area of south america that allows people to see sound.

[philnoll]

@borisbmx And there's LSD everywhere else.

[sparkytrick]

@philnoll Haha, nice.

[b1llybrown]

this is dumb in my opinion. yes colors are also certain freq.'s like pitch but unrelated. its all personal, and varies from person to person.

[jondough7777777]

@b1llybrown i agree with you that it varies from person to person. for me some of the colors match the tones that you would see in traditional PP/color tone charts but others dont.

example, C maj gives me a yellow, C sharp maj gives me a light green, D maj gives me a baby blue, E flat maj blue, E maj purple, F maj red and here's where it gets tricky, F sharp maj is like a differnt green. lil darker than C sharp.

[guitmarc54]

if you cant see sharp you be flat...

[ifucusfuror]

i think this is a good theory.. im practising perfect pitch, there are difference every note,  half step almost same color or feeling, but 1and1/2 step completely change color or feeling.. i dont know what`s that.. any poeple experience what i feel.. pls comment..

[rickypramirez]

this shit is completely true!!!

[Flextones]

I don't know about this. The choir that I play for tends to sing in D. Which is Joyful. Handel's Hallehlujah Chorus from the Messiah is in D as well. So you say D is Yellow. G which is a bright key is Green and the sound of nature. The singers will sometimes slip over to B and I hate playing in B as it does not feel comfortable under my fingers but sometimes they get stuck in Hot Red B. I will investigate this further Thanks

[gudpeder]

I must say, this sounds a little new age inspired, and not very scientific. Even though colours relate to emotions and sounds relate to colours, it doesn't mean notes relates to emotions...

[sunshinegirl1967]

I agree....it sounds new agey and unscientific. I have perfect pitch without synesthesia. Instead of color, I relate sounds to weather. It's entirely subjective and unscientific too.

[boxofz]

@sunshinegirl1967 colour is sound on a much higher octave, the wavelength has passed the barrier of audable information onto the plane of visual

[AdmiringObserverR]

@boxofz interesting explanation

[DanMcCaffrey]

@sunshinegirl1967 There are 7 colors in the visible spectrum. There are 7 notes in the primary scale. You don't find that both astonishing and scientific? The science is solid, it's peoples perception that is a little more fluid, as your correlation to weather proves.

[sunshinegirl1967]

@DanMcCaffrey I just can't relate to it at all. How the pitch D (or any other pitch, for that matter) makes a person feel is subjective, personal, highly dependent on an individual's experiences with each pitch. I think in broader terms of keys rather than individual pitches. Key of E can leave me feeling cold, so can D. But at lot also depends upon the song itself too - the melody and lyrics. Fleetwood Mac's "Sara" is in a sunny key F - but yet it leaves me feeling cold as ice.

[0EH0]

you dont use your ears to taste food..

so why do you wanna use your eyes to know pitch?...

the 'color' of the pitch is just an expression just like your eyes know what blue looks like without even thinking..

your ears know what note it is without even thinking over anything..

everybody can learn perfect pitch. we were born seeing the color blue but not until someone told us 'that' was called blue did we know it.

[AdmiringObserverR]

@0EH0 hmm so interesting



[PaybackisaBitch333]

@0EH0 Some people can hear a sound and feel/see a colour, though; I do it in meditation all the time, hence I want to know what the heck is happening to me lol ^^

[DanMcCaffrey]

@0EH0 Because it explains the science behind the phenomenon of perfect pitch. We're talking about soundwaves and lightwaves, not music and art. Defining phenomenon, not discussing perception. These existed in nature before mans 5 senses. Furthermore, studies have shown that people with perfect pitch share perceptions insofar as perceived shades of light and dark. Some people perceive weather. What this demonstration is trying to demonstrate is that there is a pattern.

[ChrysalisBound]

neato!!

[AscensionSeries]

I've heard this same reasoning before. It still doesn't show a direct/absolute link. To justify it by multiplying octaves is pure theory. The search continues.

[onesav1or]

you should check out bobby smith's new song "The Colour of Sound" its awesome... like this video!

[Fuglebolle]

I don't think this should be called science.

It's not at all based on logic, and comes off more like a bad conspiracy theory.

First, There is no logical reason for why a scale should consist of 7 notes, and alot of scales don't. Same thing with colours.

That there are moods assosiated with specific keys is in no way established. In fact, a research on this by ICMPC8 concluded "the participants showed no ability to

be able to identify mood from key or key from mood".

[seriousgeorge001]

I wonder if "simon"(the memory game with the colored lights and sounds) is based on this concept.

[ghettohoward]

this is fucking awesome

[celliguy]

um, but you can change the key of a piece but still have it sound the same. I don't know how valid I find this =/

[garagemusicsucks]

wow - thats amazing! thanks guys!