Do you ever visualize music?

[Entre_Perpetuo]

I was listening to Slayer as I was going to sleep the other night, and as I was drifting off I began imagining more and more vivid shapes and forms which seemed to somehow match the sounds I was hearing, and they would change and move as the sounds did. I think because I was going to sleep I could really hone in on this effect of music, but I also think it's something that sits in my subconscious a lot. Listening to something will often spur a sense of place or environment in the listener from what I can tell. As a student of architecture I find this really interesting as it shows some kind of subconscious connection and relationship between the visual and audible arts at a really basic level. Just sounds influencing forms, nothing as thought out and constructed as say the score of a film conversing with the images on screen.

 

Have you ever experienced anything like this, a kind of visualization of sounds?

[Nova Carmina]

Yes, all the time -- although less as shapes than as tones of light or colors.

 

I'd be careful about listening to Slayer at bedtime, though!

[RushFanForever]

chromesthesia or sound-to-color synesthesia

[treeduck]

Yes.

[Union 5-3992]

[grep]

Yes. Pretty frequently.

[J2112YYZ]

Yes, most of the time.

 

Did listening to Slayer before you fell asleep give you any nightmares?

[Entre_Perpetuo]

Yes, most of the time.

 

Did listening to Slayer before you fell asleep give you any nightmares?

 

Nope! Actually they're surprisingly easy to fall asleep to, I think because they don't play with dynamics that much, so eventually they just kind of read as white noise.

[JohnnyBlaze]

Death metal is an asymmetrical polygon that seems interesting at first glance. But on further inspection it's not much to look at so I get bored and walk away.

 

J-pop music is a tiny, very faint pink, transparent cube that fits on the tip of my index finger. I try to flick it away but the shit box keeps coming back and attaching itself to that index finger.

[Entre_Perpetuo]

Death metal is an asymmetrical polygon that seems interesting at first glance. But on further inspection it's not much to look at so I get bored and walk away.

 

J-pop music is a tiny, very faint pink, transparent cube that fits on the tip of my index finger. I try to flick it away but the shit box keeps coming back and attaching itself to that index finger.

lol

[JohnnyBlaze]

Death metal is an asymmetrical polygon that seems interesting at first glance. But on further inspection it's not much to look at so I get bored and walk away.

 

J-pop music is a tiny, very faint pink, transparent cube that fits on the tip of my index finger. I try to flick it away but the shit box keeps coming back and attaching itself to that index finger.

lol

 

The short answer is 'yes'. :P

[Tinwoodsman]

... under the influence or not under the influence?

[bathory]

... under the influence or not under the influence?

 

yeah, I was about to say, this is a psychedelic thing. when I listen to music I usually just picture what the band might look like playing it, or the album cover

[Three Eyes]

Rush made a lot of cinematic music. It's always been easy for me to see what Neil's lyrics are saying.

 

 

[Flavia2112]

Death metal is an asymmetrical polygon that seems interesting at first glance. But on further inspection it's not much to look at so I get bored and walk away.

 

J-pop music is a tiny, very faint pink, transparent cube that fits on the tip of my index finger. I try to flick it away but the shit box keeps coming back and attaching itself to that index finger.

Rush is...

...maybe a hypercube?

[invisible airwave]

That middle section of Echoes by Pink Floyd has me imagining being on a submarine below sea.

[Lorraine]

Only the few times I took LSD in high school, or mescaline. Edited December 24, 2020 by Lorraine