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Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 8:26 am
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Hendrix's Bold As Love does a fine job of associating colors with emotions. But that is beside the point, I suppose.

When I listen to Lithium I always think of yellow and green. Some intense tones make me think of red.

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Californiacation-Red, Dark Red, lots of reds
Scar Tissue-Blue, maybe some deep black, maybe even a tiny bit orange...
All Along the Watchtower-Red
Hey Joe-Brown and orange
Stairway to Heaven-Lots
Give it Away-Orange ,little gree
Crappy songs-Dry and Gray

I could go on.
Good tones have one color, great tones have multiple.
Try these albums
Californiacation-RHCP
Remasters-Led Zeplin
Axis:Bold as Love-Hendrix
And I thought I was crazy lol!

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My, but we seem a nano-fly turd touchy and sarcastic, today.

Perhaps this discourse is either simplistic or overly clinical...

... but if the ear-brain-mind can associate musical key with emotions (e.g., Bach's Tocatta and Fugue in Dm being foreboding)...

...tempo with excitement (William Tell Overture)...

...timbre with psychedelia (fill in the blanks)...

...since colour is visual perception of wave, a higher-frequency part of the vibrational spectrum just like aural perception we interpret as music is the lower end of the spectrum...

...why can't different songs, notes, chords....

...evoke in the brain-mind different hues and combinations of colur without one's being suspected of or being chemically-brain-mind-altered?


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Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 2:04 pm
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JSJH wrote:
...why can't different songs, notes, chords....

...evoke in the brain-mind different hues and combinations of colur without one's being suspected of or being chemically-brain-mind-altered?


I couldn't agree more. Sounds can evoke colors, smells can evoke colors, tastes can evoke colors. It really hasn't got anything to do with lsd. Of course having used once or twice may make those associations a little easier to recognize.

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cryingstrat wrote:
JSJH wrote:
...why can't different songs, notes, chords....

...evoke in the brain-mind different hues and combinations of colur without one's being suspected of or being chemically-brain-mind-altered?


I couldn't agree more. Sounds can evoke colors, smells can evoke colors, tastes can evoke colors. It really hasn't got anything to do with lsd. Of course having used once or twice may make those associations a little easier to recognize.


OK, when I started this thread I knew that I would be getting responses with drug references, but can someone please answer the question that I gave? Please? :?

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Ok, to answer your original question....

When I hear or play I don't automatically associate colors with the tones. If I was asked to say what color that tone sounds like I'd be able to. It just isn't an automatic response. I've never been playing and said to myself "wow, that sounds very yellow".

Hope that helps.

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I don't think of any colors just mood and inner feelings. My mood comes out of the tones that I am making. Sometimes its :D or :twisted:

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