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Re: Dark reeds?

Author: Schell
Date: 2007-11-29 16:41

I agree in that I do not like the descriptors dark and light for tone. What I like to think of tone as is (and quoting John Mack) "A matter of life and depth." A good tone to me had depth and multi-layredness but it also has a ring, or sparkle. This combination makes for a beautiful sound that can both blend with others in the orchestra or stand out as a soloist.

in regards to your comment that "sound cannot have colors that are attributed to the light spectrum."- I wonder if you've heard about synesthesia. Some people are born with a "cross-wiring" of the senses which causes them to mix their senses. Someone with synesthesia might hear an Ab and simultaneously experience the color maroon in their head. There have been composers (notably Olivier Messiaen) who wrote music based on the colors that that music created in their mind due to synesthesia. The most common form is actually experiencing colors associated with each letter. A person with that type of synesthesia would see the words of this post in a vast variety of colors (each letter has one color that it always appears to them as) while the rest of us only see black and white. While synesthesia is fairly uncommon some people who have it actually DO attribute colors to the sounds they're hearing!

for more about synesthesia I reccommend Richard Cytoic's book "The Man Who Tasted Shapes"

ashle

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