A Synesthetic World
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This is what happens when I’m bored, have nothing to do, and am in a room with a guitar, mic, keyboard, interface, and a computer.
What do you guys get from this?
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To all of those music-> ____ out there:
What song is your favourite, as far as synesthetic reactions go? Describe it?
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Atlas by Battles
“People won’t be people when they hear this sound that’s been glowing in the dark at the edge of town.”
Kinda sounds synesthetic, doesn’t it?
What’s your synnie reaction to this song? :)
And, yeah, I know it’s not music day :P
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A synesthetic illusion.
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anyone else see colors/textures when they listen to music? lol
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Just listened to a song, purely instrumental, to see what I saw and I used Paint to make something of it. I’ve never done that before, but here’s my first time.
It actually makes a lot of sense to me.
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This song was written by my friend and I. Please take a listen. It’s strange, weird and bizarre. This is what happens when I focus in on my synesthesia and write music.
- 5 months ago
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- #synesthesia
- #music
- #sackbutt
- #space
- #launch sequence
- #strange
- #weird
- #bizarre
- #psychedelic
- #post-rock
- #guitar
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I have synesthesia! One of its effects causes me to see colors when I listen to music. I made this picture of the finale of Tchaikovsky’s “1812 Overture.”
- 5 months ago
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- #synesthesia
- #music
- #colors
- #interesting
- #nerd
- #nerdy
- #1812
- #overture
- #tchaikovsky
- #classical
- #picture
- #cool
- #sound
- #visual
- #light
- #show
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Synesthesia
Went to a concert of Messiaen music, which is quite a challenge to listen to. I closed my eyes and watched the color-play. Then learned that Messiaen was synesthetic and experienced music and sound in color too!
It’s almost impossible to visually represent the experience, though … The ‘colors’ themselves are also perceived (by me, anyway) as mouth sensations, shapes, textures, ‘scenes’ or place-scapes, and emotional states. And the context informs the color.
So it’s not like “B flat is green” - it’s more, “This B flat in this series of chords is a daub of grayish green against a wash of shifting blues and browns, with a round sensation on the front of the tongue, poignant, pretty but sad, a painting of a Dutch harbor town in early Spring, seen in a chilly museum on a Tuesday afternoon.”10 Comments -
This was inspired by Crazy Train, by Ozzy Osbourne.
Done in charcoal
Link- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzDl8nL_TZw
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The solo provided the scale-like shapes all around the piece. The whole song feels like there are up and down shapes, like little pillars
The riff is the stalk-like (Is that the right adjective?) shape moving right from the lower-left.
The lyrics don’t have much to do with this, it comes from the backing instruments.
The solos provided the scale-like shapes all around the piece. That sound is actually really, really common for heavier electric guitar, I just haven’t SHOWN it before because I was worried it would look wrong. Even here it’s a little off in shading, but this was done AGES ago. I haven’t been able to get it scanned though, and in the meantime, I’ve gotten better. You’ll see those scale-like shapes much more in the future, I think!
The whole song feels like there are up and down shapes, rising, but mostly falling, lots of squares and rectangles.
Anyone who’s heard the song can tell you the lyrics DRIVE the piece. DEFINITELY true, but the guitar in it determines the appearance, the color and shape of everything. The vocals are scratchy yellows, the guitar is greys, and I couldn’t make the two work in a way that LOOKED right. And come on. With THAT riff, I HAD to make it the one big thing, above all else, beginning above and smashing down into swirls, which I’m not sure I quite captured, but it’s almost there!
SO, what few lyrical elements are in here are in the back of the picture, lower down, below the riffs/guitar.
The ‘ALL ABOOOAAAARDDD,’ and the ‘AY-AY-AY’ at the very start ARE here, sharing the same space in the lower right, in that darker depression seperated by three mostly white slashes with light random slashes through them. They were FAIRLY similar, and I didn’t feel like it was necessary to put it in TWICE. It didn’t even NEED to be there once, but it seemed important.
Aside from that, the center slash down to the right is the only specific lyrical element in this piece, she back and forth slashes forming part of the chorus, ‘I’m goin’ off the rails on the crazy train!’
- 6 months ago
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- #Crazy Train
- #ozzy osbourne
- #charcoal
- #charcoal pencil
- #art
- #abstract
- #abstract art
- #artists on tumblr
- #Ozzy
- #heavy metal
- #metal
- #music
- #psychedelic
- #trippy
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I am not an artist nor a dancer, but synesthesia is what lets me paint with words and dance through music.
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“City in the Sea” from this weekend’s “A Visit With Edgar Allan Poe” performance. Poem by Edgar Allan Poe and recited by literary historian Rob Velella; music composed by yours truly and performed by me (piano) and Valerie Thompson (cello).
Aaaaaand, now for some fun synesthesia facts!
1. The main theme of the piece is in Am (fiery red) with the notes E and Eb featuring very prominently in its melody line (medium blue and dark blue, respectively) representing the murky ocean, as well as foreshadowing what happens at the end of the piece.
2. Theme two is an ascending melody line, meant to mirror the “light from the lurid sea” streaming up the turrets and towers.
3. For the line “The viol, the violet, and the vine”; the chord beneath the word violet is F(a brilliant purple), which then changes to Gm (a deep green) for the word “vine”. The timing was just perfect during this performance, I was so happy! Rob’s timing in his recitation was just perfect :)
4. As the city sinks, the final version of the melody sinks along with the descending diminished chords.
5. In the final moments of the piece, I am hitting strange key combination of A, Ab, Bb, and Eb (dark red, fiery red, orange and deep blue), meant to represent the fires of hell engulfing the sea. The piece ends on A (deep red), the lowest note on the piano, to signify the city’s disappearance into the ether. MWA HA HA HA…
Fellow synesthetes — what images/colors does the piece make you see? I would LOVE to hear your interpretations!! <3 Please post them here!! :)
Thank you to Ofer Inbar for taking this video, to Rob Velella for inviting me to collaborate at his wonderful event, to Valerie Thompson for performing so beautifully, at to everyone at Mount Auburn for curating and hosting this gorgeous evening of poetry and music! <3
In the very beginning, I saw lots of deep reds from the piano and purples from the cello. Best way to explain it is by saying Woundrous shadowish loudains, trooving and green, junifer gune, hollow and neen. It reminded me of one of the tracks from The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask’s soundtrack (but I can’t remember which one).
By 1:20 I saw a blend of purple and yellow, and yet the bloody red was still dominant, never letting go of its power. The man’s voice is a golden and yellow thread that keeps hanging on to all the changes, and is still swayed by the winds of the other colors.
On 2:15 it seemed that the red was going to engulf the whole painting. It was an ambush I suppose you could say. It was like the red was a feral animal defending itself from a corner for a final stand.
On the very last note, all the preexisting colors go away, and there is a massive red/black smoke that takes over. Absolutely fantastic :)
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“Paste: Have you always visualized music with colors?
King: No, well it’s not like I try, you know? It’s just how it is. It’s the same for me with numbers. Like, four is just yellow to me and it would be weird to me if it were not. And songs are the same way. It’s never been something I need to think about”—http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2012/10/catching-up-with-kaki-king.html
YOU GUYS. THERE ARE TWO THINGS THAT ARE AWESOME TO ME. KAKI KING AND SYNESTHESIA. THIS IS PROOF THAT BOTH EXIST TOGETHER. OMG KAKI KING HAS SYNESTHESIA!!!!!!
(via pandasuzanne)
I KNEW IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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