The musical scale, if I want it to, has a corresponding visual scale from black through brown, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, and white to silver.
Do you mean that, for any scale, the first degree ("do") seems like black to you, "re" like brown, "mi" like red, and so forth? Or does it start with C and work upwards? Is it by whole steps or half-steps?
I happen to have absolute pitch, and also tend to associate brighter colors with sharper keys: A flat major seems like a purple sort of key, E flat a foresty green, B flat a fairly deep blue, F and C lighter blues (C a very light ice-blue); G major is sort of a wooden light brown, D major a golden yellow, A major a brilliant red. I also associate the major keys with different times of the day: sharp keys seem like morning keys, flats evening.
What's even weirder is the daylight-associations I get with different scriptural passages. The Abraham narrative seems to take place mostly in a sort of dim twilit haze, with the Jacob and Joseph narratives emerging into a fuller daylight-- Moses daylight, Joshua fading, Judges very dim, Samuel and David becoming well-lit again. Probably this is mostly a function of how well-ordered the society being described is, but that doesn't quite seem to explain it all. I'm not sure.
Anyway, that's of course not a proper synaesthesia, but it seemed similar enough to be of interest in response to your post.
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Date: 2004-02-20 01:27 am (UTC)Do you mean that, for any scale, the first degree ("do") seems like black to you, "re" like brown, "mi" like red, and so forth? Or does it start with C and work upwards? Is it by whole steps or half-steps?
I happen to have absolute pitch, and also tend to associate brighter colors with sharper keys: A flat major seems like a purple sort of key, E flat a foresty green, B flat a fairly deep blue, F and C lighter blues (C a very light ice-blue); G major is sort of a wooden light brown, D major a golden yellow, A major a brilliant red. I also associate the major keys with different times of the day: sharp keys seem like morning keys, flats evening.
What's even weirder is the daylight-associations I get with different scriptural passages. The Abraham narrative seems to take place mostly in a sort of dim twilit haze, with the Jacob and Joseph narratives emerging into a fuller daylight-- Moses daylight, Joshua fading, Judges very dim, Samuel and David becoming well-lit again. Probably this is mostly a function of how well-ordered the society being described is, but that doesn't quite seem to explain it all. I'm not sure.
Anyway, that's of course not a proper synaesthesia, but it seemed similar enough to be of interest in response to your post.