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soglad

31-07-2007, 04:25 AM

auron

31-07-2007, 05:05 AM

Hmm, I definitely think you're on to something there!

Next time i have a smoke, I'll be testing it out. :D

joegum

31-07-2007, 05:49 AM

What you're describing is synesthesia. The composer Alexander Scriabin had the same condition.

From the Wikipedia...
Alexander Scriabin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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a more flexible sonata-form (Samson 1977).

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Synesthetic colors, described by the composer
Synesthetic colors, described by the composer

Though these works are often considered to be influenced by Scriabin's synesthesia, a condition wherein one experiences sensation in one sense in response to stimulus in another, it is doubted that Alexander Scriabin actually experienced this.[2][3] His color system, unlike most synesthetic experience, lines up with the circle of fifths: it was a thought-out system based on Sir Isaac Newton's Optics. Indeed, influenced also by his theosophical beliefs, he developed it towards what would have been a pioneering multimedia performance: his unrealized magnum opus Mysterium was to have been a grand week-long performance including music, scent, dance, and light in the foothills of the Himalayas that was to bring about the dissolution of the world in bliss.
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Also check out ...
http://prometheus.kai.ru/skriab_e.htm

I've particularly enjoyed recordings of Horowitz' playing Scriabin.

-Joe

joegum

31-07-2007, 06:00 AM

Btw, this not only applies to experiencing notes as colors.. Some musicians will, for example, describe the tone of one instrument as "chocolate" or another as having a "nutty" tone.

The tone of an instrument may also be described (more commonly) as being "sweet" or "mellow" .. perhaps in this case not actually being synesthesia, but converging upon it.

ashyr

31-07-2007, 08:05 AM

gettin a bit hectic. I personally believe this is definatly a existing thing.
havnt had anything like that myself. but i have whats called "perfect pitch" which many people claim they have, but funly enough they dont. some times i may fall into that category. but on a fresh day when im on form. i can pick the notes so quickly enough to make myself even smile. hehe.

i have tuned my ear to D now as a relative pitch.
there is some familiarity with this COLOR and TONES, and also between PICTURES and SOUND, and also between ENERGY and PICTURES.

now you've all see "What the bleep do we know" and they show you breifly those pictures of water. with certain energies flowing thru them. is it anything like that?

when you see the colors is it just a COLOR like a "VISIONARY THING" eyes closed? minds eye? or is it patterns/gradients/hues etc of a color. or is it presented like a PICTURE is? imagerially

Anders Lindman

31-07-2007, 10:33 AM

For ages now I've been able to distinguish musical chords as colours. Anyone else get this?

For me, G is green, D is red, E is black, F is blue (or maybe white) A is yellow and B is Red again and C is green/yellow.

I just think it's interesting how I can instantly feel a colour from a chord.

The colour spectrum goes from low frequency to high frequency. The 12 note musical scale goes from low frequencies to high frequencies. A chord should theoretically be a mix of colours matching the blending of corresponding colours in the light spectrum. Green, for example, should then be a single note, not a chord. :confused:

lumukanda

31-07-2007, 10:44 AM

thats quite a gift dude, but how does it affect you when listening to a song for example? rythmic colours, or blurs of colours? or is it just when you're playing your own music?
things like this have always fascinated me, it kind of shows you how malleable reality actually is.

herebynightfall

31-07-2007, 10:51 AM

For ages now I've been able to distinguish musical chords as colours. Anyone else get this?

For me, G is green, D is red, E is black, F is blue (or maybe white) A is yellow and B is Red again and C is green/yellow.

I just think it's interesting how I can instantly feel a colour from a chord.

I call it... Guitar Hero II

lmfao
what up bro.

the site is lacking quality lately. don't you agree?
my computer has been busted lately.
so none of that media really got put together.

i wanna start something going. something that makes people think for themselves !

we'll see.

love man

sevenworlds

31-07-2007, 11:09 AM

I don't get it as specific as that but often when I hear a song or album I think of the production in terms of colours. For instance, the production of certain albums seems very black and white to me (like an old B&W movie) while others are much more colourful.

Also, when I was a kid I used to visualise the days of the week in colours and shapes. Monday was like a piece of red ravioli, Tuesday was a blue comb, Wednesday was a brown and white fan, Thursday was yellow, Friday was a yellow comb, Saturday was blue, can't remember what Sunday was.

intruder

31-07-2007, 03:30 PM

Yeah, there was a mail order course on how to acquire "perfect pitch" via ascribing a colour to a pitch. For me that is just extraneous information. A chord has a given "mood", quality, and more importantly a "function".
The stacking of intervals can alter ones perception of the chord.
Compare Cmaj7 in root position C-E-G-B (boring) vs. (my favaourite voicing for it) E-B-C-G

E (3rd in the bass) followed by a perfect 5th up to B then a semitone to C with G as the highest pitch. You have two perfect 5ths ie; E to B and then C to G. The semitone cluster in the middle adds nice dissonance.

It can start to get confusing because if you were to now place an A in the bass, you would have an A minor 9 chord, the relative minor of C major. Should one ascribe ONE colour for C maj7 and another for A minor 9?

What colour would you give to C diminished? Eb diminished? Gb diminished? and A diminished? Tricky, because all 4 chords are the SAME chord. Why waste time with 4 separate colours when 1 would suffice. Again, it's the function of the chord that is more important.

eternal_spirit

31-07-2007, 03:57 PM

For ages now I've been able to distinguish musical chords as colours. Anyone else get this?

For me, G is green, D is red, E is black, F is blue (or maybe white) A is yellow and B is Red again and C is green/yellow.

I just think it's interesting how I can instantly feel a colour from a chord.
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Interesting. I used to see colours after magick mushrooms and smoke, whilst playing swirling around the guitar and the fretboard and in the ether, also colours coming out of the speakers.
I knew a guy who painted his fretboard on his guitar different colours for each note, although I can't remember what order the colours realted to each note were.

eternal_spirit

31-07-2007, 04:01 PM

soglad

31-07-2007, 05:05 PM

I call it... Guitar Hero II

lmfao
what up bro.

the site is lacking quality lately. don't you agree?
my computer has been busted lately.
so none of that media really got put together.

i wanna start something going. something that makes people think for themselves !

we'll see.

love man

Hey! S'up? Haven't been on this forum for ages due to the amount of trolling and moaning. Bad vibes etc.

I will surely help you, since I have built a whole new PC that is very high quality and can no problem edit high quility videos and the like. So I'll have no problem getting back to that idea!

More about seeing colours though. I just had a brainfart while walking down the seafront with my mate talking about this sort of stuff. Since all matter is energy vibrating, and that the light spectrum is comprised of different states of frequencies (vibrations), would it be logical to assume that chords, being vibrations themselves, give off certain vibes of emotion, and possibly, creation?

I remember once when I was meditating, I had a very nice heart chakra explosion, and I remember feeling that the heart chakra was green. So I look up on the internet and lo and behold, the heart chakra is green and controls love (I remember taking mushrooms once and feeling a pulse of pure love emanating from my chest to all around my body, so beautiful). Since I feel the key of G as green, would that mean it is the key/vibration/frequency that creates love? A lot of people say "OM" was the creator sound. When I hmm "OM" I get the key of A. Could the frequency of A create things, and G create love?

Either way, I think sound is an important part of this universe. I mean everyone loves music, EVERYONE. The vibrations make us feel good, sad, thoughtful.

Anyways, any ideas on a plan herebynightfall?

Also, I shall try my darnedest to bring love back to this forum. It was great when I was using it! (not saying I was bringing the greatness) :P