when i want to make music, often i will see the song
before i can know what it sounds like... there are
images that i've been working to get out since i first
picked up a guitar that i'm now trying to get out on
my computer...
i'm working on a track now in which the vocal is
composed of lots of little squares connected,
overlapping, serrated, bits of them missing from
the pattern... the melody is a blue arc, a series
of red line segments and alternating purple and
and white bumps. the beats are boxes which shift
and rearrange themselves and the bass is a sinewy
pink fiber.
i'm very fortunate in that my girlfriend, with whom
i make music, and i are able to talk to eachother
about
these sorts of images and able to each understand what
the sound like.
i'm envious when i hear of or meet someone (literally,
i've only met one person) who is a true synaesthete.
though certain sounds and rhythms and things do evoke
shapes and colors, and fewer things stimulate other
senses too....
interestingly... i am an insomniac and have tried a
lot
of sleep meds, and on in particular, ambien, turned on
my synaesthetic tendencies fully... to the extent that
once while listening to the first track of dntel's
album 'life is full of possibilities' while laying in
bed with the lights off... blue, white and green
miniature (about three inches long) scuba-divers began
swimming towards me from my cieling in exact sync with
the music. different images, though mostly floating
orbs and dancing boxes, corresponded to the songs that
followed... but scuba-divers were the most vivid
image music has made me see.
--- Thomas Millar <tmillar@comcast.net> wrote:
quoted 1 line or are they pictures of living on a space colony and
> or are they pictures of living on a space colony and
piloting giant japanese robots (f'rinstance)?
been listening to some flaming lips, eh tom?
gregory
i would like to play my music for a synaesthetic
person
and see if their images correspond to mine at all.
=====
)the fawn
)"i thought when i started playing
)shows i'd meet a lot of really cool
)people, but most of the people i've
)met just want me to copy software
)for them"
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