x-posted from synaesthesis

[eneogei]

hey everybody- I figure maybe I can expand my reach a bit by posting this here as well as within synaesthesia forums/mailing lists/academic communities, since there seems to be some synaesthesia/autistic spectrum crossover (I have sound->color, musical notes/tones/textures->color, grapheme->color, object personification, touch->color and time units

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[idiotgrrl]

I can't offer you personal experience, but the Albuquerque Museum of Fine Arts (???) is having a show about Synesthesia in Art. I think you might find it interesting to google for it.

[eneogei]

thanks for the info! I'll look into that...

[polygonia]

I do music notes and colours. Also musical notes and textures.

[eneogei]

perfect- if you'll send me a message at my email address (above), I will add you to the list! thanks :)

[zooropababy]

I find that a lot of numbers have colours, but not all letters. Some key signatures have colours as well. Temperatures don't have sounds (as in your post), but they do have colours (broadly banded).

Makes playing the violin very interesting, as it does going to many many U2 shows with their lighting design.

I'd be interested in helping, even without return in kind. My mother also had synaesthesia; however her colours did not match mine. Strangely enough, while the synaesthesia seems to be on her side of the family, the AS runs on my father's side.

[eneogei]

hmm, interesting. keys having colors or 'auras' is a phenomenon that's been fairly well-documented, informally, through the history of Western music :) two synaesthetic composers of the late 19th/early 20th centuries (Scriabin and Rachmaninoff), also had a conversation once where they found they agreed on the colors of a few keys/tones. Beethoven and Mozart talked about keys having colors, and it's fairly well-recognized, even amongst non-synaesthete classical musicians, that there are 'colors' in music- usually it's referred to as tone color, or a particular shading (i.e. this key is very opaque)- it's more figurative. I'm interested in taking this farther and seeing what kinds of correlations there are (I'm sure there are a ton!).

do you think anyone on your mom's side might be interested? I'm trying to find a legitimate sample size so this project will be taken seriously ;)

[zooropababy]

I could ask my aunt next week - she's the only one left (they were the only two children, both maternal grandparents are gone, as is my mother).

[pet_lunatic]

Consistency is the key - when I was tested for synaesthesia as part of somebody's research, they made me do it several times to check that the colours I had for letters/numbers were the same every time.

[pet_lunatic]

Sounds interesting!

I have grapheme-colour synaesthesia, and also sound- and musical note-colour synaesthesia. I've been involved in synaesthesia research before. I'd certainly be interested in taking part!