''a union of the senses"
“a mystical vehicle to attain a higher reality or state of consciousness.”
-Art and Music at the Salons de la Rose and Croix, Laurinda S. Dixon 1892-1897.
'Notation 21'
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Vladimir Nabokov, Novelist, Poet and Synaesthete - 'Colored Hearing' |
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''I grew up hearing in color, when I hear a musical note I automatically see flashes of shapes and colors'' - Kaitlyn Hova, professional violinist, composer, web developer, designer, neuroscientist and core team member of Women Who Code. |
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Jane Mackay - a synaesthetic artist who sees colours when she hears music and paints what she sees."Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the hammers, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another purposely, to cause vibrations in the soul."
--Wassily Kandinsky, The Effect of Color, 1911. “Musical sound has direct access to the soul. It finds there an echo, for man ‘hath no music in himself”
-Wassily Kandinsky’s treatise On the Spiritual in Art (1912). |