The Colour of Sound - Documentary

A scientific documentary describing the strong links between sound and colour

Category:

Education

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• Sound
• Colour
• The
• Lab
• Movie
• video
• Music
• audio
• visual
• awesome
• cool
• bach
• arts
• light
• schubert
• high
• frequency
• red
• yellow
• grn

[golulugo]

This is amazing...thank you..

[showmethelab]

you're welcome :)

[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.

[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.

[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}

[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.

[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. 

[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.

[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.

[Redflowers9]

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

[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 ^^

[damondixonmusician]

very good :) i liked it.

[AdmiringObserverR]

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