Guy invents color-coded chord wheel to translate music into paintings

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Tim Bavington—an artist based in Las Vegas, Nevada—is not the first artist who tries to paint music but he might be the most precise at it. He came up with a color-coded chord wheel that helps him translate notes into colors so he can make paintings that are exact visualizations of his favorite songs.

http://timbavington.com/

A literal marriage of art and music

 

[LaserBeam]

That is really interesting. Apparently, there is a certain neurological phenomenon where someone can perceive one stimulation that leads to another sensory/cognitive experience. Per wikipedia:

Synesthesia (also spelled synæsthesia or synaesthesia; from the Ancient Greek σύν syn, "together", and αἴσθησις aisthēsis, "sensation") is a neurological phenomenon in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway.

People who project will see actual colors, forms, or shapes when stimulated, as is commonly accepted as synesthesia; associators will feel a very strong and involuntary connection between the stimulus and the sense that it triggers. For example, in the common form chromesthesia (sound to color) a projector may hear a trumpet and see an orange triangle in space while an associator might hear a trumpet and think very strongly that it sounds "orange".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia

Then, because i was curious as how musical notes can be translated to color, i did a quick search and found this:

http://www.lunarplanner.com/Harmonics/planetary-harmonics.html

It's amazing how frequency can be translated into wavelength.

 

[LaserBeam]

Found an article on a guy who hears colors and writes music based on what he sees.

NEIL HARBISSON DOESN’T see colors, he listens to them. The day I talk to the Spanish-born artist, he is wearing a discordant array of notes: F (red), G (yellow) and C (blue). “It’s not a normal major chord. It’s a bit like “da da da,” he sings.

It’s certainly an unconventional way to approach a wardrobe— Harbisson likes to say he dresses to sound good not look good— but it works for the artist, who was born with achromatopsia, a condition that left him completely colorblind.

For the past 10 years, Harbisson has been wearing an electronic eye, his “eyeborg,” to transform his grayscale world into color. This device, implanted directly into his skull, is essentially a camera that captures colors and turns it into sound frequencies that Harbisson can listen to via bone conduction. In Harbisson’s cybernetic world, every color has a corresponding note: Red is F, orange is F sharp, G is yellow, C is blue, A is green and so on. He listens to Warhols, paints with sounds and writes music based on what he sees around him.

http://www.wired.com/2014/03/cyborg-neil-harbisson-teaches-musicians-play-color-sheet-music/

This is wonderful. Maybe colors and music have always been closely connected to one another, but we are seldom able to see it.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

Ya I've heard of that before. Some theorize that great musicians of the past had that condition. I also read an article about a man that had the ability to remember almost everything that ever happened or was told to him and he had the same condition

 

[LaserBeam]

I always wonder how does it feel to be able to remember everything and never forget. Or to see musics and hear colors. Seems fun

That Tim Bavington guy, he made a beautiful sculpture called Pipe Dream based on “Fanfare for the Common Man,” by composer Aaron Copland.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

That is cool