Post 5 - Synesthesia in Action
August 25, 2023
Colour and Waveforms
Every music note appears as a unique colour. Its colour is a visual representation of its spiritual quality. When notes are arranged into chords, they manifest a personality, in the duality of major and minor. Chords take on the same colour as their base note, the tonic; it’s the spiritual quality which precipitates through the levels of reality, into what we perceive as sound.
Chords and notes also appear to possess two manners of movement. The first, linear movement, appears as a rising, falling, or steady/horizontal movement. The second is a rotating movement either as clockwise or anti-clockwise.
Below is a gif showing the two rotations.
The table below shows all 12 tones with their respective colours, waveforms, and rotations. Some tones have a secondary, black arrow depicting another force on the waveform, namely on E-flat, G-flat, A-flat, B-flat and B.
Note: C can appear white or a lighter blue in the major, but a cooler, darker blue in the minor. (Not to be confused with D minor’s warm, dark blue.)
Music Tone Waveform Chart (2023)
Seeing the Language of Sound – Part 1
In this section, I share two active examples of musical colour and waveform motion.
The first example appears in the song ‘Solace’ by Kyle Watson. Each chord appears as a coloured line (its spirit), tilted in a specific linear, direction of movement. Their rotational qualities are also visible as dotted lines with loops passing around the chord lines.
The video below is an excerpt of the song’s audio with my language of synesthesia in real time.
(Waveforms arranged together in a musical spectrogram)
F minor map – Solace (2021)
Seeing the Language of Sound – Part 2
This second example appears in the song ‘Universum’ by Nublu and Mikael Gabriel. (This song is in Finnish and Estonian.)
Instead of depicting musical qualities as chord lines in the first example, each note is separately visualised. The bass appears as dots and the synth as elongated triangles. The synth’s shapes in the chorus also project light into the darkness of the background, B-flat minor’s darkness.
The video below is an excerpt of the song’s audio with my language of synesthesia in real time.
(Mun universumini – 2021)
-Garrett Porter
*Disclaimer: I do not claim ownership of the music or copyrights to such songs on this page. I only claim copyright to the visual imagery in the two videos, used for informational purposes only.*