colors comming from music

Pafnutij wrote: That's called synaesthesia, I believe. Some people automatically associate music with colors.

 Nice to know there is a name for it. Gives me something to look up. I have always had mental images and colors in my head when I hear sounds.. I'm one of them I guess. But I guess we all have it differently and in varying degrees. For instance, I really don't understand associating a single color to a whole album, And a single color to a whole band blows me away, To me that would be like saying  Tresspass sounds like a guitar. It doesn't sound like a guitar it sounds like all the insruments. That's what I see when I hear things. Each note of each instrument has an image.

 The sounds don't just invoke images of real world things. I get that too, like when a certain music makes me imagine a royal procession or a thief in the night. That's the emotional response to the music as a whole. I think it's great when a piece is powerfull enough to do that, that's what makes music awesome. Along with that though each sound has an image in my head. an undescribable image. its not just music either, all sounds do it. It's not so bad with me that its invasive.. I can pretty much ignore it at any time (luckily). It's very stong and enjoyable with music though. I' m pretty sure this is one of the things that has drawn me so powerfully to music.


 On another note, this one time..just once, Things I saw with my eyes had noise in my head. That was an 'induced' experience though. Man was it cool, I was creating this kick ass Grand majestic music in my head just by looking at different things in rapid succession.


 So short answer... yeah I see colors :)

btw didnt pt have a song called that "synaesthesia" on stars die?

 

Edited by lightbulb_son

Yep. Some songs make me think of colours - Epitaph of a red-brown colour, In The Land Of Grey And Pink of, well... pink and green. The list goes on - often certain bands make me think of a certain colour very often.

Queensryche is dark green, an almost blackish green at times!

Listen to Queen of the Reich on headphones, eyes closed....whew!

Flyingsod wrote: Pafnutij wrote: That's called synaesthesia, I believe. Some people automatically associate music with colors.  Nice to know there is a name for it. Gives me something to look up. I have always had mental images and colors in my head when I hear sounds.. I'm one of them I guess. But I guess we all have it differently and in varying degrees. For instance, I really don't understand associating a single color to a whole album, And a single color to a whole band blows me away, To me that would be like saying  Tresspass sounds like a guitar. It doesn't sound like a guitar it sounds like all the insruments. That's what I see when I hear things. Each note of each instrument has an image.  The sounds don't just invoke images of real world things. I get that too, like when a certain music makes me imagine a royal procession or a thief in the night. That's the emotional response to the music as a whole. I think it's great when a piece is powerfull enough to do that, that's what makes music awesome. Along with that though each sound has an image in my head. an undescribable image. its not just music either, all sounds do it. It's not so bad with me that its invasive.. I can pretty much ignore it at any time (luckily). It's very stong and enjoyable with music though. I' m pretty sure this is one of the things that has drawn me so powerfully to music.  On another note, this one time..just once, Things I saw with my eyes had noise in my head. That was an 'induced' experience though. Man was it cool, I was creating this kick ass Grand majestic music in my head just by looking at different things in rapid succession.  So short answer... yeah I see colors :)

Wow, that must have been one hell of a trip you went there


When I listen to post-rock and ambient (Eno, EITS, Sigur Ros, GY!BE etc.) I asociate pictures and images instead of colors. Dreamy landscapes and beautiful sounds are only part of the ride and no need for drugs.

Mr. Krinkle wrote: it happens to me that the colour i imagine when listening to a song/album is always influenced (or mostly) by the dominant colour of the cover and album art. And at the end i think it was the band's purpose to put it that way, a colour that could match their songs.