color association of effect types

[Johnisfaster]

I used to associate colors with everyone I knew, just for kicks I guess. it's strange sometimes how a person can definitely feel like a certain color when you start thinking about it.

anyway. effect types and my color association.

reverb : blue, maybe light grey

pitch shifter : definitely red

filters: yellow

compressors : white, or black

distortion : orange, maybe red

flangers and phasers : light blue

chorus : blue

bit crusher : black

grainular : green



what are your color associations?

[sublimelobc]

Along those lines, wouldn't it be cool if you could change color of entire tracks in live, rather than just clips? Also changing colors of devices would be cool, you could easily mark hardware to match a live set that way.

There are a lot of color associations in magik and psychology, as wall as nature and lots of mythology...I love reading about all those things, it makes you wonder about the collective unconscious as Carl Jung described it....you wonder how far back that knowledge goes.

[Johnisfaster]

I had a girlfriend once who said she wanted me to write an album about furniture. odd I know. she said one song would be about the couch and the next about the lamp and so on. I never actually liked the idea but I did like the idea of inanimate objects associated with sounds.

furniture sounds was a possible album name for me for a while, but I've never finished an album

maybe that'll be my new music name, furniture sounds.... not sure...

[crumhorn]

Sounds like you might have a form of synesthesia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia - which is something I always found fascinating. though I never experienced it myself.

On the subject of furniture, you reminded me of the track by Horslips - which influenced me greatly at the tender age of 14.

Horslips - Furniture -

Then http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=e9lvD9tl35M


and now http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=gvWryPMag1E

I have to admit they've aged better than I have - but I think I moved on musically more than they did

[furrybum]

Not sure I'd say it was synaesthesia. That's more a case of actually SEEING the colours when you hear something. This is more a case of association.

I'm the same to be honest. I think we it stems from using terms light "bright" for high frequencies.

Read a book by a neurologist who specializes in synaesthesia once called "the man who tasted shapes". Sounds crazy. He wrote about a guy who could feel flavours as a physical object in his hand. The brain is a strange strange thing.

[crumhorn]

Not sure I'd say it was synaesthesia. That's more a case of actually SEEING the colours when you hear something. This is more a case of association.

I'm the same to be honest. I think we it stems from using terms light "bright" for high frequencies.

Read a book by a neurologist who specializes in synaesthesia once called "the man who tasted shapes". Sounds crazy. He wrote about a guy who could feel flavours as a physical object in his hand. The brain is a strange strange thing.

I've always thought that synesthesia could be experienced to different degrees, and that we all use it to some extent. Which is why we talk about sharp flavours and bright sounds.

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran did a good series of lectures about the mind on BBC radio 4. He believes that synesthesia helps to explain the origins of language, metaphor and abstract thought.

Hers a link to the lecture where he talks about it http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/reith2003/lecture4.shtml

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[furrybum]

From what I've read on it it's thought to be a kind of "Crossed wire" in the brain where some senses interfere with each other and don't act as they would in "normal" people. As I said though, that's the impression i got. Associationg colours and sounds to each other is a language thing rather than a physical reaction in the brain.