Sunday, December 7, 2014

Choir Concert

Listening to music is an experience I don't think I'll ever be able to put into words. Because even though a picture can paint a thousand words, in this case, even a picture falls short. 

However, while I was as a choir concert yesterday, I attempted to draw how the songs looked to me. The pictures show where the music is 'physically' in my head. Different lines should be different colors and different depths. Also, some of the colors/shapes/lines aren't like anything in the physical world.

Lux Aurumque - (ignore the green letters, it's the only paper I could find;) 



Where are you Christmas - the horseshoe shapes is the piano, the lines are the cello, and the zig zags are the soloist's voice


Candy cane lane 



Oh come oh come Emmanuel - this was probably my favorite :) the wavy lines in the middle are the lines of the song when one group starts singing them one line after the other group. For example:

Oh come oh come Emmanuel and ransom captive Israel
                                                Oh come oh come Emmanuel and ransom captive Israel

The bubbles and lines at the top are the higher women's voices, the lines at the bottom are the men's voices. The zig zags going down are the melody. 








Sunday, October 20, 2013

Just Noticeable Difference, Sandpaper, and Synesthesia

A cool thing happened in psychology class on Friday - we were talking about amount of difference required to notice a difference (just noticeable difference). We used sandpaper and people felt one piece then another (it could be the same or different) with their eyes closed and had to see if they knew if it was the same. Max was able to get each one because he subconsciously had a color/pattern in his mind for the texture. He was able to ace the test because of synesthesia:)

Tuesday, October 15, 2013

181 - MSU

We were playing pickleball today and someone said the score was 1-8-1 (in case you don't know how pickleball scoring works, that means we have 1, they have 8, and the person serving is server 1). The number 1 is white and the number 8 is moderately dark green (at least in this scenario; numbers can change colors based on context). 1-8-1 is white, green, white. 

When this person said 1-8-1, because of the colors, I thought of Michigan State. I thought of it without even realizing why, so I had to stop and think for a minute about the connection. 

It was just a cool little synesthesia experience today :)


Saturday, October 12, 2013

Harmonies support the melody...

Literally. In general, the melody is a dark blue line that rises and falls, and the harmonies are a kinda olive greenish line that is underneath the blue line, holding it up.

Skunks smell...

Like purplish-pink soy sauce. 

Friday, October 11, 2013

Music Chords

Some colors are based on the guitar/piano hand shape or location on the piano/guitar neck, others on the sound. I will try to specify :)

C - red (piano hand shape no inversion, and guitar hand shape)
C#m - dark blue with dark but bright red in the upper right corner (guitar hand shape)
D - yellowy limey green (guitar hand shape and piano hand shape generally agrees)
E - deep blue? (Guitar hand shape) lighter blue? (Piano hand shape no inversion)
Em - deep blue but very small? (Guitar hand shape)
F - orange (guitar hand shape)
G - limish green (guitar hand shape and key) slightly darker green (piano 2nd inversion)
A - white (both)
Am - white but slightly grey (guitar and piano agrees)
B - light blue (guitar) slightly darker blue (piano no inversion)

The number 2

"Looks" like this: