Any other synesthetes?

[Clark Nichols]

Hello everybody. I am just wondering if there are any other synesthetes among the forum. I'm currectly listening to some faure, and he has very purple music (he's my favorite synesthesia composer, on par with Reich and Debussy).

 

1) Who are your favorite composers for synesthesia? why?

 

2) who are your least favorite composers for synesthesia? why?

 

3) How did you discover your synesthesia?

 

2, least favorite synesthesia composer...probably Glass (ironically). His music doesn't change much color wise.

 

3, I discovered my synesthesia (even more ironically) at a Philip Glass Concert, definitely the strongest experience I've had. My entire vision was shaded different colors

[Mike Leghorn]

I'm not sure exactly what you mean by synethesia (even after I looked it up on Wikipedia); however, I do love color in music, and my music is primarily based on color (http://soundcloud.com/mike-leghorn). In music, I pretty much equate color with orchestration, i.e. my favorite masters of color are usually my favorite orchestrators: Ravel, Respighi, Shostakovich, Tchaikovsky, Elgar, Berlioz, Bizet. It's hard for me to draw the line though, because I also think Brahms, Beethoven, Handel, Mozart, Stravinsky, Mahler, Wagner, and Bartok were great orchestrators.

 

Mike

[Clark Nichols]

I see sound as color, that is what I mean (like as I type, there are some purple lines and boxes in the air)

[Doug Lauber]

Hi Clark. Yeah- I have a very visual concept of music. Overall, a composition can look like a landscape as we move through it from beginning to end. We experience the landscape as we travel across it. We encounter abstract form along the way that often repeat themselves, like encountering one maple tree after another. It's possible to begin a composition with this kind of abstract visual landscape...

[Paul H. Muller]

Realization of the score "Bleep Hertz", by Jukka-Pekka Kervinen // Video & mix by Steve Layton // Musicians: Jérôme Poirier, Lee Noyes, Tom Izzo, Jukka-Pekka Kervinen, Steve Moyes // As part of ImprovFriday, Oct 2010

 

http://youtu.be/-riCwPsWOQc