Comments on: music-colour synaesthesia revisited

By: Lyndsey O'Connell

Lyndsey O'Connell — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 19:39:54 +0000

hello,
ive read your blog and find your thught processes,..intriguing if anything.
im an art student at coventry university in englanD. My most recent work is exploring the cross over between music and the visualisations i receive while listening to music, If i am honest i have never until a few days ago heard of synesthesia. certainly not the separate types either.
i find myself listening to music and creating images from the sound, which are often colours or certain marks, even certain phrases often captivate my work. i also from a dance background instantly see choreography from these drawings and sounds.
your blog hs enlightened me.
thankyou for posting such an interesting look at things

By: Paige

Paige — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 19:44:40 +0000

I see letters, numbers, numbers, and shapes in color. A is orange and he’s a guy. I could go on and on forever but I won’t!

By: Paige

Paige — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 19:42:25 +0000

I see letters, names, numbers, and shapes in color. A is orange for me and he’s a guy. I could go on and on forever, but I won’t!

By: llama

llama — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 19:42:55 +0000

cool, I have syneasthesia too. I see names, letters and numbers in colors, also days of the week. finally, someone i can relate it too! so what are the different colors you see?

By: girlonarock

girlonarock — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:52:33 +0000

exciting to hear someone elses experience on synesthesia, especially relating to music! i have synesthesia, and i believe it helped me to learn different instruments. my exoerience is each musical note i see is a colour i feel, but also each hand position for each different note is also a colour, so if i’m playing the sax and playing G its like i think green for the finger positioning, and also while filling out questionaires re synesthesia, i then realised each musical note had a personality too?..oh and all my colours are in my ‘minds’ eye.

By: sydney taylor

sydney taylor — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 01:28:37 +0000

Hello! I really do think I have synesthesia and one of the reasons why I play the clarinet is to see the off-white and shiny mahogany swirl around. It’s odd, because I don’t normally see the colors, but I get a wierd sensation in the front part of my skull when listening or playing music. I also have a pacemaker, and I wonder if the electrical impulses from that have anything to do with my colors.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 16:57:00 +0000

I have music synathesia and I love to experiment with it. I probably drive my flute teacher crazy becasue I always want to change the song that I’m playing to see how the colors change.

By: R.J. Anderson

R.J. Anderson — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 16:46:37 +0000

Delighted to have found your blog! I’ve just created a syndicated LiveJournal feed for it so I can track it through my friends list — I hope you’ll continue to update it on a semi-regular basis. I’m not a synaesthete myself, but I’m currently writing a paranormal suspense novel about a girl with an unusually potent form of synaesthesia, and I want to make that aspect of her character as real and plausible as I can.

By: lifecreativitycoach

lifecreativitycoach — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 02:22:44 +0000

WOW! I like your “quirk” and I have read about other people who have it. COOL!

terri