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Hi Kelly,
I think Paul answered the points on phi pretty much
as I would have, so I won't repeat any of that.
But I'm intrigued by your synaesthetic experience of
chord colour. How vivid would you say the colours were
to you? The reason I ask is because I have only very
faint colour associations with harmony, but do have a
stong and different kind of synaesthesia with music,
namely texture, as in the sense of touch. I'm talking
about smooth and rough, brittle, spiky, watery, muddy,
velvety, slub linen, fine cotton lawn, silk, honey and
molasses! Is this unusual, do you think?
Regards,
Yahya
-----Original Message-----[Yahya Abdal-Aziz] ------------8><----------Snip!
Sent: Tuesday 24 May 2005 9:06 am
Subject: [harmonic_entropy] standing waves and phi
Also (---going out on limb here!) could it be possible that there is
some sort of interaction of harmonics, almost like the interference
pattern referred to above, but at the level of harmonics, which is
involved with the perception of 'chord color'? I guess I'm sort of
thinking of that older theory of dissonance pertaining to coinciding
partials....
If this is all too murky to even respond to, I understand! It's just
that I sort of visualize chord color, like synthesia, and am trying to
understand it...
thanks, Kelly
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