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offline KEYFUMBLER from DUBLIN (Ireland) on 2002-06-19 16:51 [#00275039]
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does anyone have this condition.........the merging of 2 or
more senses?....ie seeing sounds, tasting colours etc....
i wanna know what every braindacne song looks/tastes
like!!!
(of course i can visualise 'em but this is a medical
phenonomen (nah nah na na-na) where you actually get altered
perceptions).......and then some


 

offline supreme from Antwerp (Belgium) on 2002-06-19 16:52 [#00275045]
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I thought this topic was about the Junkie-xl song.
(recommended btw.)


 

offline Zeus from San Francisco (United States) on 2002-06-19 16:54 [#00275047]
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ive always seen things from sound (mentally that is... does
that count?)

music for me is highly visual


 

offline KEYFUMBLER from DUBLIN (Ireland) on 2002-06-19 17:03 [#00275064]
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no zeus...this is a neurological fuckup only a few people
get which, say, if i saw a certain shape i'd get the taste
of copper in in my mouth...unimagined.

i saw a thing where this girl would listen to classical
music and actually see blobs of light ..to such and extent
that it would block her view of the real world. Go to hit
her and she wouldn't flinch.


 

offline supreme from Antwerp (Belgium) on 2002-06-19 17:04 [#00275066]
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Didn't Claude Debussy suffer of Synesthesia?


 

offline jand from Braintree (United Kingdom) on 2002-06-19 17:10 [#00275068]
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hasn't AFX mentioned he's got this?...in an old
interview...probably BS tho...

Take some acid...that seems to trigger it for me...


 

offline jand from Braintree (United Kingdom) on 2002-06-19 17:11 [#00275070]
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I seem to recall it was the reason behind all the
Calx's...Blue Calx, Yellow Calx etc.. named after the
colours he sees...


 

offline astrid-gil-botn from Londinium (United Kingdom) on 2002-06-19 17:38 [#00275133]
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acid does it but only take that if you think you can handle
it


 

offline REFLEX from Edmonton, Alberta (Canada) on 2002-06-19 17:58 [#00275172]
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yeah I thought it was about the junkie xl song. on their
second cd. although their first one is much better.


 

offline Ragnar from United States on 2007-04-29 14:36 [#02077332]
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Delphium tasted a lot like cherry to me, but it was like a
fake cherry taste like popping a cherry cough drop into my
mouth. Each synth physically felt like one in my head, it
was even sort of rectangular. The 808 cowbells with the
delay were sort of sour-like, like a little bite to it.

I'm curious actually... I tried to make an Orange Calx a
while back but I think it ended up being like orange the
fruit and not orange the color... what do you guys think?

http://www.zshare.net/audio/orangecalx2-mp3.html

Sorry, I couldn't mix for sh*t back then.


 

offline w M w from London (United Kingdom) on 2007-04-29 14:40 [#02077335]
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'popping a cherry'


 

offline Ragnar from United States on 2007-04-29 14:43 [#02077337]
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Lol get your mind out of the gutter man


 

offline uzim on 2007-04-29 14:55 [#02077340]
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Fabien (dariusgriffin) here does, if i remember correctly...


 

offline uzim on 2007-04-29 14:56 [#02077341]
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welcome!


 

offline madep on 2007-04-29 15:40 [#02077351]
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i have this condition. i can see sounds/pitches as colors.
[B/Bb = red. C = orange. D = blue. E/Eb = green. etc...]
what is weird is that i don't have 'perfect pitch' [though
i have a finely tuned 'relative pitch'] when i try to
isolate pitches as absolutes. however, when i have been
tested by teachers who told me to focus just on the colors,
i had a 90% accuracy in determining pitch/key [for some
reason, my synesthesia is more accurate when determing the
overall key rather than a specific pitch].



 

offline jkd from Twitch City (Canada) on 2007-04-29 16:21 [#02077369]
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A friend of mine tasted the colour blue tripping on nitrous.
I asked him what it tasted like. Blueberries? Blue Gatorate?
He said no, that it simply tasted like the colour blue!


 

offline i_x_ten from arsemuncher on 2007-04-29 17:04 [#02077396]
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didnt hendrix have this? i don't know


 

offline sneakattack on 2007-04-29 17:08 [#02077401]
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that's very interesting. I've never spoken directly with
anyone who has it.

Scriabin reported to have it, and some of his last pieces
are 'multimedia' (see the original instrumentation for the
poem of fire--it's not meant to be exactly a piano..)


 

offline Sano on 2007-04-29 17:16 [#02077410]
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I have the most common form of synesthesia Grapheme. I
used to think it was normal but no one knew what I was
talking about when I described it to them.


 

offline sneakattack on 2007-04-29 17:18 [#02077414]
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That's intense! do all digits receive a different color? or
is there some tendency to it? it's like your visual
processing is doing classification for you!

Also, if letter *actually* have different colors, and the
background is changing to, is it very difficult to read?


 

offline Sano on 2007-04-29 18:06 [#02077425]
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To me it's not difficult because it isnt' as strong as some
of the cases on that wiki page, my brain just associates
each letter with a color even though I know what colors the
text is printed on.


 

offline futureimage from buy FIR from Juno (United Kingdom) on 2007-04-30 00:21 [#02077535]
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Thought it was a Russian composer of around the same era.


 

offline mappatazee from ¨y¨z¨| (Burkina Faso) on 2007-04-30 00:36 [#02077537]
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only when listening to something falling asleep, more sudden
sound will induce flashes


 

offline HmND from your mom (Israel) on 2007-04-30 01:54 [#02077544]
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I remember "I'm Self Employed" being very yellowish orange
with triangular structure.


 

offline HmND from your mom (Israel) on 2007-04-30 01:57 [#02077545]
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Overall I get the condition of perceiving and mixing of
senses randomly when I'm in the mood or tired. It's pretty
interesting overall.
When speaking of permanent effect, I associate time lines,
numbers, letters etc with graphical systematic structures in
my head. Not strictly colors, but just visual systems. Makes
it much easier to remember things.


 

offline S M Pennyworth from East Timor on 2007-04-30 03:36 [#02077559]
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for me its the exact opposite, i hear sounds from what i see


 

offline HmND from your mom (Israel) on 2007-04-30 03:56 [#02077565]
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That would be pretty cool if I had that. I wonder how many
things sound like even when they don't really have a sound
haha. Do you taste certain things too? Speaking of "I'm Self
Employed" again for example, it was a bitter-sour track.


 

offline zero-cool on 2007-04-30 04:21 [#02077576]
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there is no way too describe those last tracks on saw 1,
Delphium, Actium, Ptolemy.

they have this sort of neon 23rd century feel


 

offline Fah from Netherlands, The on 2007-04-30 05:57 [#02077590]
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flava's
it sounds like a cool condition though


 

offline S M Pennyworth from East Timor on 2007-04-30 12:05 [#02077692]
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yes, i have'nt really mapped everything out yet but its
somehow connected to an impossible shape i see when i'm
really tired and close my eyes. i can feel it, see it, hear
it and taste it. its always been like that.


 

offline cygnus from nowhere and everyplace on 2007-04-30 14:34 [#02077736]
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i see gods/angels/demons/outer-worldly technology, etc. in
some music


 

offline bogala from NYC (United States) on 2007-04-30 14:40 [#02077739]
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This is different than associating certain sounds with
colors. Its an actual experience, right?


 

offline roygbivcore from Joyrex.com, of course! on 2007-04-30 15:04 [#02077742]
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i associate a couple drugs with colors


 

offline steve mcqueen from caerdydd (United Kingdom) on 2007-04-30 16:43 [#02077787]
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ive had the (mild) one where every letter of the alphabet
and 0-9 has a colour associated with it, for as long as i
can remember. the colours have always been the same.


 

offline roygbivcore from Joyrex.com, of course! on 2007-04-30 17:44 [#02077813]
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opium tastes like light purple
ketamine tastes like a bluish green


 

offline Ragnar from United States on 2007-04-30 20:13 [#02077833]
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Ok, I tried out doing something I've been meaning to do for
a while now - studying a picture and trying to make a
musical interpretation of it. I came up with a little
something, I mean it's really simplistic but it's still such
a good approximation of what was in my head. :)

So it's kind of SAW II style - the 'title' is the image,
which happens to be this one:

http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger/4942/1623/1600/660659/
IMG_2256.jpg

And the music track:

http://www.zshare.net/audio/sawiiitrack-mp3-p2x.html

I should build on this idea but I'm way too busy with
finals.


 

offline hedphukkerr from mathbotton (United States) on 2007-05-01 17:45 [#02078128]
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a friend of mine, whilst tripping on mushrooms, came out of
a taqueria bathroom after having been lost in there for
about 15 minutes and said, "dude, that room just stank of
pink."


 

offline HmND from your mom (Israel) on 2007-05-01 17:53 [#02078133]
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That's amazing really! Good job, I like the sound and it's
association to the image, but I think that it's too dark to
actually 100% FIT into the image. Now if the building was
abandoned and Chernobyl-styled, you know, then it would fit
VERY well. It just doesn't have that dark enough atmosphere,
but rather civilized light one.


 

offline HmND from your mom (Israel) on 2007-05-01 17:55 [#02078135]
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You got the water and reflections part right though.

Both posts refer to how I would interpret the image
-> sound of course. Different for everyone. :D


 


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