![]() ![]() To take this a step further, some musicians see individual pitches as having particular colors as is the case with people who have perfect pitch. You might hear discourse among musicians claiming that one key is brighter or darker than another or that a music key has an assigned color. There are also composers who write their compositions based upon colours. One famous synesthete was the musician, Duke Ellington. Now that we have a baseline for coloring words, how about entire paragraphs or structures? What about a novel or documentary?ĭo you see words in colors? Coloring Music Each voice actor comes at this from a different perspective depending on their life experience and world view. The meaning of a word, and the context within it is used, often dictates how it is approached and painted accordingly. Voice artists are encouraged to color their words, creating a desired emotional response through tone, emphasis, timing and so on. Someone who has synesthesia is often referred to as a synesthete. ![]() ![]() 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”. 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. There are two overall forms of synesthesia: projecting synesthesia and associative synesthesia. There are many forms synesthesia takes, and the form I’d like to explore with you now is called chromesthesia. If you’ve not ever heard of synesthesia before, people who possess such abilities are able to see, hear or feel what the majority of us don’t. But was this description merely a poetic way of labelling my voice, or, was my teacher interpreting the sound of my voice through shapes and colors? Enter SynesthesiaĪ sensation produced in one modality when a stimulus is applied to another modality, as when the hearing of a certain sound induces the visualization of a certain color. Many creatives love words, that’s a given. Based upon my research, I came to understand that burnished, in relation to my voice resembling a bell, meant that my instrument’s bell-like sound was shiny, polished and bright. Knowing what a bell was came easily, but “burnished” was a word that I had to look up. While I liked her word choices, I began to wonder what it really meant to sound like a burnished bell. When I was taking voice lessons at conservatory, my voice teacher referred to my voice as sounding like “a burnished bell.” She used other words too, but that identifier has stuck with me over the years as being the most memorable. The words we use to describe tone alone could serve as the basis of an entire article! In voice over, and voice production in general, there are myriad ways that we describe the vocal instrument. How can this be? So far as audio goes, did you know that there are people in our midst who hear through color?įind out more about what the phenomenon of synesthesia is and how it can be used in today’s Vox Daily. Have you ever been on the receiving end of confusing artistic direction? Whether it’s your drama teacher asking you to “be a tree,” or a director telling you to “sound more purple,” we’ve all be given direction that we didn’t understand that seemed entirely clear to the director. ![]()
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