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Since I'm not a fan of Coldplay, and would rather listen to the raw talent that is A Capella, I present to you another synesthesia painting; this time, to the colors of Viva La Vida as performed by the greatly-gifted University of Buffalo A Capella choir.
For those of you unfamiliar with synethesia, a definition nabbed from the medical dictionary online:
"A condition in which normally separate senses are not separate. Sight may mingle with sound, taste with touch, etc. The senses are cross-wired. For example, when a digit-color synesthete sees or just thinks of a number, the number appears with a color film over it. A given number's color never changes; it appears every time with the number. Synesthesia can take many forms. A synesthete may sense the taste of chicken as a pointed object. Other synesthetes hear colors. Still others may have several senses cross-wired.
Estimates of the frequency of synesthesia range from 1 in 250,000 to 1 in 2,000.
It may be that synesthesia arises when particular senses fail to become fully independent of one another during normal development. According to this school of thought, all babies are synesthetes. Synesthesia can be induced by certain hallucinogenic drugs and can also occur in some types of seizure disorders."
The painting above is a little smaller than my usual works (this time only about 6"X 6"), but is still one of my favorites. I feel that this one in particular shows what I 'see' when I listen to the music.
Chords are layered like sandstone, with the higher notes on top of the lower, darker ones. There is also a lot of blue in this song, with strange clouds of white that I don't often see in most songs. Not sure what causes that, but it sure makes it interesting. I really could listen to this version of this song a million times over.
You can hear the exact version I listened to while painting this HERE:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOaclY2MDaY
Acrylic on particle-board.
© All rights reserved.
Any unauthorized use of this image is illegal and strictly prohibited.
For those of you unfamiliar with synethesia, a definition nabbed from the medical dictionary online:
"A condition in which normally separate senses are not separate. Sight may mingle with sound, taste with touch, etc. The senses are cross-wired. For example, when a digit-color synesthete sees or just thinks of a number, the number appears with a color film over it. A given number's color never changes; it appears every time with the number. Synesthesia can take many forms. A synesthete may sense the taste of chicken as a pointed object. Other synesthetes hear colors. Still others may have several senses cross-wired.
Estimates of the frequency of synesthesia range from 1 in 250,000 to 1 in 2,000.
It may be that synesthesia arises when particular senses fail to become fully independent of one another during normal development. According to this school of thought, all babies are synesthetes. Synesthesia can be induced by certain hallucinogenic drugs and can also occur in some types of seizure disorders."
The painting above is a little smaller than my usual works (this time only about 6"X 6"), but is still one of my favorites. I feel that this one in particular shows what I 'see' when I listen to the music.
Chords are layered like sandstone, with the higher notes on top of the lower, darker ones. There is also a lot of blue in this song, with strange clouds of white that I don't often see in most songs. Not sure what causes that, but it sure makes it interesting. I really could listen to this version of this song a million times over.
You can hear the exact version I listened to while painting this HERE:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOaclY2MDaY
Acrylic on particle-board.
© All rights reserved.
Any unauthorized use of this image is illegal and strictly prohibited.
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Wow, I love this. It's so different from my experience of the song, mine is much lighter. How do you paint your songs? Mine have so many different parts and move too much for me so draw them.