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"..studies to date have reported that synesthetes and non-synesthetes alike associate high pitched sounds with lighter or brighter colors and low pitched sounds with darker colors, indicating that a common mechanism may underlie those associations in normal adult brains"
It might be hard for musicians to decide what note to play just by looking at an associated colour (especially if they are colour-blind), but there shouldn't be any downside to doing something like "syntax highlighting" for musical notation, where the existing symbols are used, but are coloured based on what type of information they are conveying, e.g. tempo, dynamics, style.
I was hoping this would be about using different colours in musical notation, as I think that black-and-white sheet music doesn't use all the visual tools available to modern designers. It might be hard for musicians to decide what note to play just by looking at an associated colour (especially if they are colour-blind), but there shouldn't be any downside to doing something like "syntax highlighting" for musical no…
Is this something similar to what the site https://144notes.org/ tries to do? Color the pitches?
I was hoping this would be about using different colours in musical notation, as I think that black-and-white sheet music doesn't use all the visual tools available to modern designers. It might be hard for musicians to decide what note to play just by looking at an associated colour (especially if they are colour-blind), but there shouldn't be any downside to doing something like "syntax highlighting" for musical no…
I've often wondered if people with Chromesthesia (who associate sounds with colours and/or colours with sounds) fall into sets of people with similar colour/sound mappings. "..studies to date have reported that synesthetes and non-synesthetes alike associate high pitched sounds with lighter or brighter colors and low pitched sounds with darker colors, indicating that a common mechanism may underlie those associations…
I've often wondered if people with Chromesthesia (who associate sounds with colours and/or colours with sounds) fall into sets of people with similar colour/sound mappings. "..studies to date have reported that synesthetes and non-synesthetes alike associate high pitched sounds with lighter or brighter colors and low pitched sounds with darker colors, indicating that a common mechanism may underlie those associations…
The article its-self is rad in that the circle of fifths is very much a "relative" thing to begin with so we are actually seeing some pretty "flavorful" results- but the search for the "true color of sound" is tough when light is 430-730 trillion hz and audio is 20-20 thousand hz. The factor that you then are dividing or transposing by is arbitrary.
I've always been curious why the visible light spectrum appears to "wrap around". Why does the color wheel appear continuous? Is it related to the fact that the frequency range is about an octave?