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Jo Ellen
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5/7/2008 9:23:06 PM
Color Scapes
If your music were represented through color only, what colors are on your pallette most?
For me:
White
Yellow
Green
Black
Blue
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LyinDan
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5/7/2008 9:27:44 PM
My real stuff, blue and red.
What's available, black and blue, haha.
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JOHN FRY
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5/7/2008 10:37:48 PM
I would say black, like my heart.(lol)
Maybe burnt orange,pea green, and dirty martini. I seem to be all out of the color of money.
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Pulse Eternal
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5/8/2008 12:02:24 AM
All the colours of the rainbow and more that cannot be seen!!! I see music as a kaleidoscope to life :-D
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Bruce Boyd
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5/8/2008 12:41:11 AM
"There are numerous arbitrary arrangements setting forth the mutual relationships of the planets, the colors, and the musical notes. The most satisfactory system is that based upon the law of the octave. The sense of hearing has a much wider scope than that of sight, for whereas the ear can register from nine to eleven octaves of sound the eye is restricted to the cognition of but seven fundamental color tones, or one tone short of the octave. Red, when posited as the lowest color tone in the scale of chromatics, thus corresponds to do, the first note of the musical scale. Continuing the analogy, orange corresponds to re, yellow to mi, green to fa, blue to sol, indigo to la, and violet to si (ti). The eighth color tone necessary to complete the scale should be the higher octave of red, the first color tone. The accuracy of the above arrangement is attested by two striking facts: (1) the three fundamental notes of the musical scale--the first, the third, and the fifth--correspond with the three primary colors--red, yellow, and blue; (2) the seventh, and least perfect, note of the musical scale corresponds with purple, the least perfect tone of the color scale."
Extract from:
The Pythagorean Theory of Music and Color
Yes I'm back onto Pythagoras again!
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srm
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5/8/2008 1:31:46 AM
Bruce- that sounds like the Chakra Therapy stuff I've been checking out, lately. It's also interesting that it also ties into the Hugo post with Dame Evelyn Glennie. There's more to music than just the sound.
Personally, my music colours tend to swing from navy blue, to bright red, to tree frog green.
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The CODE
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5/8/2008 4:51:40 AM
Ours would mostly be Black & White!!!
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5/8/2008 6:07:37 AM
I like to think I work from a GREEN palette Jo Ellen as my music is rather organic and grows of it's own accord in many directions - of course a lot of it is also produced naively and 'green' would represent that too.
Bruce that info was intriguing :)
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Jo Ellen
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5/8/2008 9:01:46 AM
I "see" everything in color and it's not necessarily with my eyes. It's more of an experience that is encapsulated by color.
Very interesting points.
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Hugh Hamilton
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5/8/2008 1:28:43 PM
Blue...
Wow - you're all such a bunch of poets...
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SILVERWOODSTUDIO
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5/8/2008 3:52:13 PM
well
----- starting with green and silver, blue & silver, black &silver, white &silver, a little red and silver and orange and silver when the girls are singing------mmmm thanks!
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Steve Ison
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5/8/2008 4:53:05 PM
Jo....
Sky blue and turquoise...
Don't know if that describes me,but they're my favourite colours!
Thats really interesting about the bigger spectrum for sound than vision -i never knew that
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5/8/2008 7:02:45 PM
I never really thought about it before but for me it's got to be "something in blue"
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My-T-Hi
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5/8/2008 8:35:23 PM
I never thought about it before either, but when everything gets mixed up it would probably end up an earthy brown, or a flaming red/orange, or a steely blue.
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My-T-Hi
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5/8/2008 11:27:31 PM
Bruce, your comments got me thinking about the physics of sound and colour, so, I checked some figures. According to wikipedia, we can hear from approx. 20Hz to 20KHz, and see colour from approx. 400 terahertz to 790 terahertz (tera is 12 zeros). So for sound the highest sound we can hear is about 1,000 times the frequency of the lowest one, but for colour it isn't quite twice as big (just short of an octave....... ) That seems to tie in with what you are saying.
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GREAT CENTRAL
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5/9/2008 2:17:04 AM
hmm, very interesting topic, jo ellen,
i would say for me it is brown, pale blue, dark blue (all the blue and brown shades actually), pale pink, dark green and cream...
having said that, my page is bright red, but i think that has something to do with Jilly :-)
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Conversation Suicide
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5/9/2008 3:10:16 AM
hmmm.. yesssss.... mmm...ahh... i think puce with a bit of amber highlighting & just a dab of olive green mixed with bright mauve & lavender overtones.
Same as my best Mary Kaye colors, you know.
-Phlegm of Conversation Suicide
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Bruce Boyd
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5/9/2008 3:27:53 AM
Moray, an interesting sidelight to this is that the proponents of the various "How To Learn Perfect Pitch" courses base their theories on the assumption that just as we learn from our earliest days to recognize different vibrations in the visible light spectrum as colours; with training we can learn to recognize different vibrations in the audible spectrum as specific notes. In fact they call them "tone colours". I've never tried it but it sounds reasonable.
This would tie in with HH's recent post "Visceral AND Intellectual" about how we should learn to experience sound..
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Conversation Suicide
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5/9/2008 5:00:55 AM
oh yes... forgot, the Avon lady last week told me my BEST colors are:
Chartreuse with a metallic indigo splash for sweetness. -phlegm
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