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I'm a synesthete, and I love it. For those of you who don't know what that means, my senses are crossed. I see music in color. There are lots of other kinds, but my predominant kind is music to color. I LOVE IT.
Tiestooooooo! This is an oldie but goodie. It’s one of the first trance songs I heard ever and one of the songs that made me fall in love with Tiesto. I think it *may* have even contributed to me going crazy for studying astronomy. Maybe. In a weird way. I hadn’t fully explored my synesthesia yet, so it still really influenced what I thought about the world. Which is odd. This song isn’t spacey. Much like the last post, it’s watery.
Ayla is a bit scary to listen to, in a sense, much life Clocks by Coldplay (I’ll have to do an entry on that as well sometime… maybe…). It’s scary in the sense that not only it strong as hell and in-my-face, but its like being in deep ocean, way underwater. It’s nothing but blue in all direction. Up top, a murky, lighter navy blue, down below, almost black dark blue. Just suspension in this world of blue hue, that doesn’t move too much.
It’s a little unnerving to hear a song where you’re so suspended in one place where you can’t see below you and above looks infinitely far away, but that’s Ayla. Also like the last post… sometimes if I get too caught up in it it’s a little harder to breathe just because it’s so fluid and ocean-like.
There are, of course, more blue, way more dark songs that I listen to. But it’s rare to have a song be so strong in more than a visual sense that it affects you like that.
It’s been a while. I am going to be honest when I say I’ve been busy and stressed. And when I’m stressed I lose my colors and it’s sad. But I think I’m in a better place now. Stressed but fortunately my music isn’t bland and boring anymore.
Anywho, with that said, Time to Pretend. This song is quite strong for me. It’s one of those songs that surround me with not only color but have a particular kind of world all its own. It’s orange. Bright ass orange and sunset yellow. But it’s quite particular in that it’s completely underwater. This song is dripping wet. Sometimes, and I am not exaggerating, it feels a little hard to breathe when listening to this because it’s so submerged.
I guess the best way to put it is like when you’re at the bottom of a pool looking up at the sky. The sky, in this case, would be yellowish golden. The water is thoroughly orange.
At the chorus is when it really gets to me. That’s when the yellow really pops out of the sky and seeps into the water. It’s where you get nice and close to the surface and everything gets bright and clearer.
That sounds gross, but it’s just like being at the bottom of a pool. This is one a very few songs that I can see this strongly with no blue or purple or black in sight. It’s quite lovely. I love running at sunset next to the beach with this on, because it just WORKS.
I missed this blog.
Welp. I, for one, find Tumblr one of the more reliable sources of information and one of the most up to date. We knew about the content of Obama’s impromptu surprise announcement before he announced it himself, just to name an example. The same difference applies to Youtube,…
Timestretch- Bassnectar
I do believe this was my first venture into dubstep territory. Until then, it had been almost purely trance. LOVE IT. This song isn’t one of the stronger songs I’ve heard. I just love it a lot.
Timestretch has an overall tan color to it. It’s very sandy… not sandy colored, but sandy feeling. Really rough. Kind of like, well, sandpaper. It’s got the color of… mocha? I want to say mocha. I can’t put my finger on the exact shade of brown. But in that family. There’s a twisting white path running through it with that higher pitched sound that winds through the song. And with the lower pitched notes that follow, it started turning a darker brown and knotted.
The middle section takes on an oddly placed periwinkle and sparkly hue, but that goes away as soon as the bass kicks back in and the song starts knotting up again.
When it all comes together at the end…. that’s amazing. The white path shoots straight upward and overtakes everything else. There have been a few times when I have been walking around with this song playing on the iPod, and I literally saw my field of vision quiver a bit and I could see that white. I wish the rest of the song was that intense.
Another electronic song. I love trance, dance, house, all that. The song I’m talking about is the Adam K and Soha mix of Serge Devant and Emma Hewitt’s Take Me With You (although Kylie Minogue has a Take Me With You I’m fond of as well).
Anywho. This song’s experience for me is ridiculously contrast to its lyrics. It could be about a break-up, although I think it’s about death and grief.
On that happy note, this song is overall white, sparkly, fluffy, and tastes of light whipped vanilla frosting. It’s so sweet and light and delicate that I can only listen to it once a week or so, or else it gets overpowering, even though I LOVE this song. It’s so strong… definitely one of the more intense songs I’ve heard. If I’m in a dark room I can almost see this song right in front of my eyes.
It’s generally very much a cloudy, puffy, cottony soft white, with hints of pink and light green and gold sparkles all over the place. It’s absurdly cute and cupcake-y. I think the darkest color in here would be shadows off of the ‘clouds’, which are a very light hue of gray. It’s also swirly, which, in addition to the sweet tasting nature of the song, surprises me that it’s not more like cupcake batter. But no, fluffy, glittering clouds.
This is an interesting song for me not only because it’s so strongly colored, but it’s one of the few (if only) songs that taste of something. In this case, frosting. Very sweet frosting. It was intriguing the first time I heard this song and realized I was also tasting it. I was pretty excited that my synesthesia extends beyond music to color, even if only a few cases. Listening to this song is just like eating dessert.
One More Time, by Daft Punk.
This is one of the first songs that I truly recognized as having color (and having that be special). I’d been seeing colors with songs all my life, but I do believe this is the first song that really stuck out to me after I learned about this synesthesia business.
This song is just plain orange. Orange orange orange. There’s a little bit of yellower orange, but it’s just pure orange. There’s hollow orange spheres with little spikes on the outsides during the intro, which is also a little sparkly and rough feeling. Also, I get the sense that it’s just rotating clockwise? Not sure if that’s the synesthesia speaking, but it’s plodding in a clockwise fashion. Which is odd, because the entire song jumps up and down but randomly spreads out flat. Also, not sure if that’s the synesthesia or if that’s just a natural image of this song. Or if there is such a thing as a natural image of a song. (?)
Towards the middle when it calms down, gets slower, and sounds more like an organ, the song is still orange, but it’s much more like viscous fluid instead of a hopping orange atmosphere with random spheres. Once the song starts picking up again, it starts rotating again and just goes back to the weird circles with spikes.
I love my synesthesia. It makes music so much more fun. :)
tumblrbot asked: WHAT MAKES YOU FEEL BETTER WHEN YOU ARE IN A BAD MOOD?
Being ridiculous with my girlfriends. We say the stupidest things.
Kaigandoori, by Asian Kung Fu Generation. I love that band. And this song is so strongly colored for me, it’s amazing! If you haven’t heard this song, look it up on YouTube, and take a listen to the rest of their music as well. You may have heard a few of their songs if you’re a Full Metal Alchemist fan.
This song’s like sunset! A hazy yellow and orange sunset. It’s not so much foggy as it’s just got a thick-ish pearly haze to it. There’s this kind of confetti stuff streaming down, mostly red in color. This song’s kind of just sunset themed… unlike a lot of the songs I see, it’s got really no other colors, just sunset-iness. Once the lyrics end though, interestingly enough, it turns much more orange. Like almost completely orange. There’s a bit of wispy yellow but mostly orange. I wonder if the guy’s voice is what’s yellow? I don’t think so. I think the sound of one of the guitars is very orange, and that’s what comes out towards the end of the song.
This song is so ridiculously beautiful. I love sunset, so the first time I heard this song it knocked my socks off. Not literally, of course. :P
