Can you hear color?
January 28, 2011 § 5 Comments
Music triggers feelings and images. And not only images, but also shapes, colors, forms. Synesthetic experiences provoke our senses. When we listen to music, we see colors and shapes that arise, move around, and disappear. And I fell lucky that I am not the only one who sees blocks of colors, when I listen to John Coltrane‘s music; so does Michal Levy, artist and jazz musician, who has created this totally ‘synesthetic’ video, inspired by Coltrane’s Giant Steps.
via Brain Pickings
[...] Obsession number 2: colors. We’ve spent hours aimlessly searching for flickr images by color. We ‘ve noticed the large gap between how men and women describe colors. We’ve tried to sense colors in their complete absence. And we heard colors synesthetically in the music of John Coltrane. [...]
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[...] Can you hear color? [...]
[...] Can you hear color? [...]
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