Oliver Sacks - Musicophilia - Bright Blue Music
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Very interesting, thanks you!
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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.
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@Myrtone definitely yellow.
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N.E.R.D. Seeing Sounds
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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..?
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D major is dark blue to me.
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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.
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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.
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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.
rachoote 3 months ago 3
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!
akseci452 1 year ago