Follow the same procedure for each music clip. While listening, choose the three colors that you feel go best with this music from the array to the left, picking the best one first. Listen to the sample by clicking on the triangular arrow on the sound bar. I won’t name the tunes yet because I don’t want that to influence the colors you choose.
I invite you to listen to five different music clips and choose the three colors that you feel go best with each one. To see what I mean, let’s start with a mini-experiment. They are uncovering the remarkably associative power of the human brain, and perhaps above all, underscoring the centrality of emotion in our mental lives. In my laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, we have been seeking answers to questions about the nature of music-to-color correspondences in both synesthetes and non-synesthetes. But recent scientific evidence shows that many non-synesthetes do have music-to-color associations similar to the cross-modal experiences of chromesthetes. Most of us don’t experience colored light shows when we listen to music. Wild, almost crazy lines were sketched in front of me.” A formative experience, he wrote, was hearing Wagner’s Lohengrin: “I saw all my colors in spirit, before my eyes. Kandinsky actually used his chromesthesia in creating his paintings. Nevertheless, a remarkable number of famous visual artists and musicians are members of this select group, including Vincent Van Gogh, Wassily Kandinsky, David Hockney, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Leonard Bernstein, and Duke Ellington. 1 Interestingly, many chromesthetes grow up assuming that everyone has the same visual responses to sounds as they do, and are shocked when they discover this is not so!Ĭhromesthesia is relatively rare, occurring in only about 1 in 3,000 individuals. Such individuals have a neurological condition called “sound-to-color synesthesia,” or “chromesthesia,” in which they effortlessly and spontaneously experience their own personal light show while hearing music and other sounds. Suppose you’re at a concert with a friend who leans over and whispers in your ear, “What color was that music?” It may seem like a strange question, but there are some people for whom the answer is entirely self-evident, and perhaps your friend is among them.
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