what are you on?

I also "see" music in colors, and guess who else does?



Damn right he does.

Devin saw his music in colours and explained that Ocean Machine was blue whereas Strapping Young Lad was red.

How cool are we, huh?

Couldn't agree more on ocean machine.

i agree with SYL too. the theme and music... it's definitely a red album.

The album cover and liners totally decide it for me. When I buy the record, I put it on and dive into the booklet. So my first sonic experience of the record is doubled with the visual experience of the booklet. OM is blue, Infinity white, Terria greyish brown, City black, SYL red, Alien dark dark dark blue and so on and that's it. That's probably why downloaded music has no value for me. It's incomplete, or more precisely, I can't complete it in my head, or maybe I can, but my completion is not part of the album, so downloaded music for me is lacking the visual factor. And I love how that sounds.

Album covers and liners can help decide what color the album is for me, but mostly it's the music. So yeah, bought music is more definate in color (and I do prefer having the actual album in my hands), but Alien always seemed to be a washed-out green to me. Maybe it was just Devin's statement before it was released, or the Alien-themed website design, but ever since I first heard Shitstorm on the site it seemed to be a very smooth, subtle shade of green. That may seem odd, but I think it's because of the layers and layers of subtle ambience beneath the chaotic music.

alien seemed pretty green to me too, even two weeks somehow. I'd say ocean machine had loads of different colours. seventh wave was blue, life was white, night was purple etc. it says in wikipedia that people with this disorder use this to aid their creativity often. who knows, he might even create a whole new colour with his music. lets have a moment of silence for dev in thanks that he chose the right path to go down and blessed us with all these wonderful musical images.

roughly translating from portuguese, yeah, that's called [edit]*synesthaesia*[/edit], aparently.

Your brain has some "short circuit" that makes you "see" a sound, or a smell, or even crazy stuff as hearing a smell (really, technically it could happen ).
I also classify things with colors, and funny thing is that the person who agrees the most with me is a bassist friend of mine.... who is colorblind

by what i know, kinesthesia seems to be a very clear and distinct feeling, meaning the person actually SEES a color when hearing a sound. I, for one, kinda have the idea of a color floating in my head.

For example, synchestra, to me, is pretty much yellow, reddish, with green and purple parts. Imagine a sunset in an african savannah, with a bunch of green and purple sparkles

alien to me is totally dark and green too. And for some reason, life to me is extremely green, probably because of the vid biasing my head

maybe someone with a major version of kinesthesia could go "hey look, this smell tastes like pain!"

I, for one, kinda have the idea of a color floating in my head.

This is a pretty good definition. But if I concentrate to the colour everything else "disappears", meaning that I see everything in front of me but don't understand what it is. Really dangerous while driving.

by what i know, kinesthesia seems to be a very clear and distinct feeling, meaning the person actually SEES a color when hearing a sound. I, for one, kinda have the idea of a color floating in my head.

so basically you're saying kinesthesia and synesthaesia are two vaguely different things? whereas with the prior you would actually see colours whereas with the latter (as stated by wikipedia) you only percieve it or imagine it? or have I got completely the wrong end of the spectrum?

oh
damn!

thank you, everything i said was about synesthaesia
i just misused the word from a previous post

it actually makes sense: KINE, kinetics, movement.

just erase everything i said for kinesthesia, i was talking about synesthaesia


and btw, it's this wiki article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synaesthes ... ynesthesia

and more [edit]s:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Synaesthesiatest.jpg
that aparently describes what syneasthesia feels like. If the color/sound relation isn't pretty much like that, it isn't really syneasthesia, i guess.

I always got imagery, not colours in my head when I really focus in on music. Maybe it's because I watch a lot of movies and a lot of bands I like use influences from soundtracks. Like Mars Volta's "L'Via Viaqez" is a really vibrant marketplace that is falling into disuse and slowly being overtaken by jungle. Meshuggah stuff is generally a barren, alien planet that is slowly being torn apart by volcanos and earthquakes and lava, that or slowly grinding machinery.

Usually its just stuff like Converge's Jane Doe, which is a bright yellow fire.

Not all the time, but recently I've been starting to listen to Gojira, and one of the songs (I don't know which one) definitely conjures up an image made up of dark reds, black, and prehaps some white. I could probably draw it if I had the right stuff to do it with; something chalky.

I always got imagery, not colours in my head when I really focus in on music. Maybe it's because I watch a lot of movies and a lot of bands I like use influences from soundtracks. Like Mars Volta's "L'Via Viaqez" is a really vibrant marketplace that is falling into disuse and slowly being overtaken by jungle. Meshuggah stuff is generally a barren, alien planet that is slowly being torn apart by volcanos and earthquakes and lava, that or slowly grinding machinery.

Usually its just stuff like Converge's Jane Doe, which is a bright yellow fire.

that could be a form of it, or it could be human nature like the kiki/booba experiment