quoted 8 lines Ok, this may seem really far out... but do any of you imagine >colours when
>Ok, this may seem really far out... but do any of you imagine >colours when
>you listen to music? I am a very visual person, and >sometimes when I
>listen to music I arrange the sounds and melodies in my mind so I can
>remember them or listen to the different things going on. For example,
>layers of sound with the beat on the bottom and melodies on top, or if the
>bass is prominent it is bigger in my mind. (Compare to the layout of a
>sequencing program). Then of course I think in color, not in black and
>white, so to me certain songs have different colors.
Actually, even if you literally "see" the colors as you listen to the music,
it's not all that unheard of, although I don't know if that's what you
meant. The clinical term for it is synesthesia, not to say that it's really
a disorder in any respect. Nabokov, for example, associated or saw colors
for each letter of the alphabet, and was convinced that most people were
born synesthetic but that they divested themselves of the natural
associations due to societal/parental influence. I also have a friend who is
able to paint what music very concretely "looks like" to her--the same way,
presumably, that some current computer programs apply algorithms to sound
frequencies in order generate images in time with music.
But, as to your direct question, I personally don't associate colors to
music very often other than in terms of very general mood, and even so am
usually unduly influenced by the color of the album and whatever explicit
social context the music seems to fit into. As in: most of BoC feels pale
blue to me because that's what color their early sleeves were, and also
because I associate them with faded colors due to the nostalgic haze they
call up for me.
Anyway, cheers,
Matthew
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