I am listening to an audio book at the moment as I drive to and fro from Whangarei to Auckland. It is Joanne Harris' Blue Eyed Boy. It is a story about a muderer but has a central theme of synethesia. The language on the audio book is so wonderful that I think I will buy the written book and, if the promotional trailer below highlighting the book gets extended into a film will watch that too.
http://www.joanne-harris.co.uk/v3site/books/blueeyedboy/index.html
The 'book' has evocative descriptions of music as interpreted by a synethestic in smells, colours and sensations.
I couldn't help thinking how a double bass solo would be interpreted:
http://nz.bing.com/images/search?q=chimney+pollluting&view=detail&id=4E6F4E962768DC0A5FE408A681CA75766D1ED1D7&first=61&FORM=IDFRIR
THE CURMUDGEON
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4 comments:
I love listening to audio books on car journeys, it makes them more worthwhile somehow.
Synesthesia can be fun.
Every time I hear a double bass I see red.
Phaaaarrrrkkkk!
Every time I hear a double bass I see red.
I could be wrong but I suspect you don't even hear the bass in most songs.
Synesthesia.. does that work the other way as in paintings that use just a few well chosen colours?
Second, see here:
http://www.doctorhugo.org/synaesthesia/art/
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