At 12:29 PM 7/19/2001 -0700, Matthew Korfhage wrote:
quoted 27 lines Ok, this may seem really far out... but do any of you imagine >colours>>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.
A lot of the color association stems from the basis that most humans are
very visual-oriented.
Personally, there's enough interest in music alone that I don't need any
senses but hearing to appreciate it.
Your association with colors is just your human conditioning shining
through. Congratulations! :D
cheers,
/derek
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