A Synesthetic World

kelseydusenka:

synesthesia exploration. 

synesthesiacomposer:

The color spectrum of music, more or less

hearingmusicincolor:

This my representation of what I hear when I listen to the song ‘Handlebars’ by the Flobots. If you haven’t heard the song yet you can listen to it here.

There is a specific process that I go through to create these drawings.

• The first thing I do is pull out the patterns I hear and sketch them out. When I do this I have to listen to the song over and over again and pick out each individual element. This step usually takes around 20 minutes. 
• Since my sound-color synesthesia is musical sounds, each specific voice and instrument will have a certain pattern or color, so to recreate what I see means I have to pull the image in my head apart, then put it back to together on paper.  
• The next step is deciding what colors to use. I do this on a separate sheet of paper since I have to experiment to recreate the colors I want. Many times I also have to mix the colors to create the shade that is closest to the colors I want. 
• In my drawing of  ’Handelbars’ the only colors I didn’t mix were the black and the jade green line. 
• After I know the pattern I want to use and the colors, I have to decide where each color goes. Again it is like putting together a puzzle. 
• Most of the time I do have an idea of what colors I am going to use and where they will go but it’s never certain until I start coloring them in.
• Once everything is decided on I color in the patterns. I usually listen to the song throughout this entire process. 

Since my synesthetic perceptions are very general the drawings tend to be a little more elaborate then what I actually hear. But I’m also trying to show all of the elements that are combined into what I hear/see. 

All my drawings are done with colored pencils and I’ll put a couple more up soon.

exoticgrandmother:

this is what my synesthesia looks like. It’s hard for me to pinpoint a single color for each character because the colors are based off of the gist of the associated color. It makes more sense in my head and the translation here in color does it no justice. Some of the letters constantly change color just like a person’s mood or outfit would change. Others are just dark blurs or a mix of colors. Some letters like A and Y are consistent.

(via exoticgrandmother-deactivated20)

elspragoo:

This actually made sense to me. Synaesthesia problems…

rain-storm:

Well, this is what my synesthesia looks like! :P

Or at least, that’s as close as I can get to the actual colors.

This meme wasn’t created by me, though. The blank can be found here.

Other grapheme-color synesthetes should fill this out. Just saying. >:3