Verdandi
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If you see musical notes as specific colors, then you can tell through visual and auditory feedback if your music is on key. For one example.
I am not sure why you'd phrase a question like "What's the use for it?" It doesn't really have a use, it's mostly a variation in how people perceive things. It sounds too much like "justify its existence." Its existence needs no justification. It exists, what more needs to be said? |
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Feline1982
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| Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2012 9:38 am Post subject: |
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| Verdandi wrote: | If you see musical notes as specific colors, then you can tell through visual and auditory feedback if your music is on key. For one example.
I am not sure why you'd phrase a question like "What's the use for it?" It doesn't really have a use, it's mostly a variation in how people perceive things. It sounds too much like "justify its existence." Its existence needs no justification. It exists, what more needs to be said? |
Yep, that's enough explanation for me, that it just exists  I was just wondering if there was something sneaky behind it.
Ok, maybe it's useful to see if key is correct if you can't hear it. In my optimizing mind this just adds there one step too much to use.
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TheSunAlsoRises
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| Feline1982 wrote: | I don't have this and I don't fully understand how it works or whats the use for it.
Some say that it's a great gift for a musician to be able to see music in colours and shapes. I don't understand this. For me it's enough, and sometimes even too much, to hear these sounds separately. Like if I listen to some classical music, it makes me a bit anxious to hear separately all the sounds, so what if there would be colours and shapes too! That would be so stressful!
How do you experince this synesthesia? What's the use for it? I'm also really interested how those musicians with this ability rely to it while doing music? |
I suspect it depends on the type(s) of synesthesia and how it presents itself in the individual.
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TheHouseholdCat
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| Agemaki wrote: | | From what I've studied in art from the early 20th century I've gotten the impression that most people are able to sympathize with the making of associations between various stimuli. Are some people unable to do so? |
I associate a lot, but I don't have synaesthesia. Not more than other people, I guess. Because most people have a slight form of synaesthesia. Only few have an extreme form of it. And I don't have that.
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Verdandi
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| Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2012 10:13 pm Post subject: |
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| Feline1982 wrote: | Yep, that's enough explanation for me, that it just exists I was just wondering if there was something sneaky behind it.
Ok, maybe it's useful to see if key is correct if you can't hear it. In my optimizing mind this just adds there one step too much to use. |
It'd be pretty handy if one doesn't have perfect pitch. Most musicians can tell by ear, though. LOTS of people can tell by ear, even if they can't explain precisely what's wrong. |
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Verdandi
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| TheHouseholdCat wrote: |
I associate a lot, but I don't have synaesthesia. Not more than other people, I guess. Because most people have a slight form of synaesthesia. Only few have an extreme form of it. And I don't have that. |
That's interesting. When I talk to people about synesthesia and describe what I experience they say it sounds like nothing they've ever experienced.
I know most people have associations (which is why I doubted whether I had synesthesia), but I am not sure it works quite the same way.
Also, synesthesia is really common among autistic people. |
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I love my synesthesia
i have grapheme- color (words, letters,numbers, names, monthes, days all have a specific color.
i see pain in color to. (wich is why i love having headachs cuz there a gorgeouse shade of green, when i sprained my anle it was a rusty orange)
and my numbers have personalities and genders  like 7 is bright green and hes a nerd but very nice.4 is yellow and she is very outgoing. 8 is purple and the 'mom' figure. Ect.
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TheSunAlsoRises
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Interesting.
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AScomposer13413
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| I'm pretty certain I don't have it, but I think it'd be really cool to have sound to colour synesthesia (being a musician). The closest I've come to it is my associating certain musical key areas with certain colours, but the identification is more due to my having a good ear, and I'd have to think hard about which colour I was perceiving at the time. |
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