Attempts to create color or music systematically from other sources
There have been many attempts to create color from music in a systematic way throughout history. Pianos which produce
colored light shows when played are one such example.
Here is an interesting article about a couple of researchers (one is a classically trained pianist) who have turned gene sequences into computer code and
then into music. It’s an interesting idea and you can hear some examples of it here. The Huntingtin one sounds OK. It occurred to me that if the idea was that the human ear may be able to detect these sequences
(or mutations of same) as pieces of music in large data files then synesthetes with music to color or shape would likely be
able to spot these sequences even faster/better.
‘Synaesthesia’ is a program that gives a graphical accompaniment to music. Anyone can make some pretty piece of graphics that flashes in
time to the music. I haven’t tried it – I would be interested to hear from any of you that do.
Looks like Brian Eno doesn’t have color grapheme synesthesia but certainly seems to use color
in his musical compositions. See attached article from his recent art exhibition called '77 Million Paintings'.
