|
|
Joined:
May 2004
Posts: 295
Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada | In July Elite LX posted a message with the above words; someone suggested it would make a great advertising slogan (indeed it would!). However, given that we are all interested in sound, I thought you might be interested in this:
Synaesthesia: a mixing of the senses that causes one to, for example, see certain colors when a particular sound is heard, or hear certain tones when looking at a particular color.
Hmmm...if I'm strumming my O and see a bluey-greeny color, is that good or bad? |
|
| |
|
Joined:
December 2003
Posts: 13996
Location: Upper Left USA | I think you out there on the Bluey-greeney thing but I will add credance to your definition.
To this day whenever I hear a wind up music box (cheap gear sound along with like the old Fischer-Price units) I can smell the gear oil they were coated in.
After a long hiatus I opened the case on my 1112 and the rush of Binary Resin put me in a really "brown" place, about 1980.
Wishing you all a very blue day! |
|
| |
|
Joined:
December 2002
Posts: 584
Location: atlanta | My daughter, Kaki King, recently told me that she thinks of her compositions not by name but by color.
Regards--
Dave King |
|
| |
|
Joined:
December 2002
Posts: 939
Location: Fort Worth, Texas | Yeah, the blue-greeney thing conjures images of the green guitars.... :p |
|
| |
|
Joined:
May 2004
Posts: 295
Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada | MWoody, it sounds like you've experienced true synaesthesia, which is probably not too common (I haven't really seen a bluey-greeny color while strummin' my O). |
|
| |
|
Joined:
November 2002
Posts: 1300
Location: Madison, Wisconsin | "Hmmm...if I'm strumming my O and see a bluey-greeny color"
Kinda' reminds me of some times I had in the late 60's and early 70's |
|
| |
|
Joined:
April 2003
Posts: 2503
Location: Fayetteville, NC | The Colors!! Look At All The Bright Pretty Colors!!Wow..They're changing before my eyes!!
prozac anyone??? :eek: :) :D |
|
| |
|
Joined:
September 2003
Posts: 9301
Location: south east Michigan | I heard an interview on the radio that talked about how the really gifted composers did not write by sound alone. They can accually hear, taste, and see the music they play. ( I just remembered...it was Paul Harvey)
Brad |
|
| |
|
Joined:
January 2002
Posts: 14127
Location: 6 String Ranch | taste and see the music, kinda like Tiger Woods playing golf, a WHOLE differnt game than we play..... |
|
| |
|
Joined:
February 2002
Posts: 5750
Location: Scotland | The late Robbie Basho always referred to scales & tones in terms of colour. Long before I'd heard the term Synaesthesia I'd read several interviews with him and thought he was barking mad. However on listening to his music I went back to my earlier conclusion that he was indeed just completely hatstand. |
|
| |
|
Joined:
May 2002
Posts: 3005
Location: Las Cruces, NM | Paul T
hatstand???
love new words, please translate.
The color thing is one more way to try to understand gifted musicians, a waste of time, in my humble opinion. I grew up with a younger brother who was as close to me as a twin in our relationship on an Ohio dairy farm that we ran for our dad from the age of 12 and 13. He could play anything well starting with our old piano, a 120 bass accordian that we got by trading off our '36 Chevy that we finagled from our dad, to playing guitar like Chet. He went on to playing fiddle and winning a Canadian National Fiddle Contest and playing in a Cleveland country TV station house band that got him an offer to travel with Dottie West which he turned down as he had a car dealership in Conneaut, Ohio that he eventually lost in a divorce.
He was just different, and nothing I know of defines it other than a preoccupation that shut out all the things we think are important.
If any of you want to be a STAR, take the next 4 years out of your life and do nothing but play guitar, otherwise accept the fact that no family man has ever sold a platinum CD.
Bailey |
|
| |
|
Joined:
February 2002
Posts: 5750
Location: Scotland | Originally posted by Bailey:
Paul T
hatstand???
love new words, please translate.
it's just nonsense, it means crazy. Alternatives could be "completely Lobster" or "totally bedpost". Anything in fact that has no relevance whatsoever to the subject. It's a Brit thing |
|
| |
|
Joined:
September 2003
Posts: 9301
Location: south east Michigan | "It's a Brit thing"
.
Our receptionist is a Brit and has that fantastic accent. Our customers love it.
When she talks like "we" do I kinda cringe. There is just no character to the mid-west accent.
When I get paged over the PA system, my name has never sounded more important.
We have talked about bringing in a French chick when she goes on vacation.
Brad |
|
| |
|
Joined:
September 2003
Posts: 9301
Location: south east Michigan | [QUHe was just different, and nothing I know of defines it other than a preoccupation that shut out all the things we think are important.OTE]
.
Perhaps it does take an almost unhealthy preoccupation to acheive that level of talent, but I beleive that part of it is something you are just born with.
Brad |
|
| |
|
Joined:
May 2004
Posts: 2850
Location: Midland, MI | Originally posted by Slipkid:
[QB...There is just no character to the mid-west accent...[/QB]
There's a mid-west accent? *I* don't have one! |
|
| |
|
Joined:
May 2002
Posts: 3005
Location: Las Cruces, NM | Thanks Paul
"Hatstand" seems to define aboot half of my postings, I use the Canadian "aboot" although the Virginia one is nearly the same.
I would not reccommend that any of you wish for mastery of your instrument, my brother died divorced, unable to control his kids, almost broke, known all over the bluegrass, country establishment but lacking a single hit, he called me when he was dying and was afraid of what was coming. I couldn't help him because my time for that kind of fear has not yet arrived. They had a ceremony for him and my sister sent me pictures, all of his picking friends were there and they were old, and they were great players playing in a hall in Conneaut, Ohio to maybe 50 people after 40 years of making bluegrass music from the time it wasn't accepted in any proper society till it was a hit for everybody but them.
Those were guys I learned to play with in the 1949-1953 era, we were IDIOTS, Elvis was the future.
Bailey |
|
| |
|
Joined:
April 2004
Posts: 265
Location: Warrenton, Virginia | "Hatstand" seems to define aboot half of my postings, I use the Canadian "aboot" although the Virginia one is nearly the same."
Baily,
what's the Virginia equivalent?
also good story about your brother |
|
| |
|
Joined:
May 2004
Posts: 295
Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada | "Aboot" is Canadian? News to me. Well, maybe that's how the people in the province of Newfoundland might say it, but I've always suspected that province was long ago re-populated with alien pod people.
Although some musicians may "think of" their compositions, or musical scales, or whatever, in terms of colors, true synaesthesia means actually seeing a color when hearing a sound, or actually smelling a particular odor when prompted by a particular visual stimulus. It is a rare event; I've never known anyone who experienced it. |
|
| |
|
Joined:
March 2002
Posts: 14842
Location: NJ | ". . . "Aboot" is Canadian? News to me . . . . ."
You've obviously never seen the "SouthPark" movie. :D |
|
| |
|
Joined:
March 2002
Posts: 15678
Location: SoCal | Aboot, as in "out and aboot". |
|
| |
|
Joined:
April 2003
Posts: 2503
Location: Fayetteville, NC | As opposed to say giving you aboot? :rolleyes:
Sorry , Couldn't resist! :D |
|
| |
"...the best sound I have seen..."