Does anyone else visualize the notes as a colour ?
Not so much the notes when reading a piece of music, but rather when I'm thinking about an individual note, or key.
It's not something I've ever paid much attention to, but I do think of the main notes (flats or sharps don't seem to change anything) as having a specific coulour.
I always perceive :
C as Blue
D as Yellow
E as Blue
F as Brown
G as Green
A as Red
B as Orange
Just thought I'd throw it out there ... :mrgreen:
Also not sure why I think of C and E both as blue, that's just the way it is. :bluewink:
I have a few friends with synesthesia. One in particular sees sounds as colors... even chords are a color array to him, and chords/melodies are a series of color patterns. He knows thousands of songs and works full time as a singer/piano man in a piano bar... between his memory for sound and his memory for the colors, he has near total recall with music and play almost anything at the drop of a hat, even really obscure stuff. The guy has really worked at turning this phenomenon to his advantage!
reviving this thread, I was listening to this talk with the great player Tivon when he mentioned he associates notes with colors at 8:50. I find this quite fascinating.
synesthesia is way more spread than people imagined very likely among us there will be several people recognizing this , however the color (some people seem numbers in colors) are not the same to every synesthete
I usually close my eyes when improvising, to block visual distractions from the real world. Mentally I visualize the ensemble music as a kind of architectural landscape to travel through or climb up. So, not colors, but virtual 3-D.
synesthesia is really a bunch of different phenomena amassed under one word and even then there is no univocity , so what's red for one would be blue for someone else.
The phenomenon really indicates an overlapping of senses so something that is essentially auditive ( for example it may be even thoughts or anything involving perception) becomes " visible" but it may as wel give you the sense of " salty" or " acid" in the mouth (for instance) or an itch somewhere.., the neural paths leading to senses seem to cross and to produce a short circuit of some sort in an area different than the one the usual path leads.
For all we know (and neuro psychiatry is a science in continuous progress) there may very well be a number of people whom associate music to 3D shapes.
When you hear a word, do you see a color or taste a food? You may have the condition, synesthesia, You perceive one sense through another of your senses.
www.webmd.com
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