‘The sound of colours is so definite that it would be hard to find anyone who would express bright yellow with bass notes or dark lake with treble.’ - Wasilly Kandisky.
Kandinsky was a believer that music and art were connected and certain sounds could trigger visual responses. From this theory he created many paintings inspired by musical pieces. A visual representation of what the musical piece is. He thought that certain colours present certain moods in tones. Bright happy tones would be represented in yellow and therefore never a bass tone in the same colour. People who associate colours with other things or other senses can often be said to have synesthaesia.
An example of one of his pieces below:
With the concept of using colour, tones and patterns to portray a feeling or mood I attempted to listen to a piece of music of my own and visualise the audio and draw an image of what I thought of. I took a less technical approach and drew with emotion and and feeling.
This was my personal representation of this music piece. I thought of the contrast of romantic tones and the fast paced violent chords combining to create a bittlesweet composition of discord and uneasiness.
The image I drew was based on this musical piece:
Scherzo No. 7 - Andante con Fuoco
I also attempted to give my idea of what type of music I thought a piece of art reminded me of through visual queues. I made this short description based on the image below:
Black and White, simple. Ambient noises with a beat-trip. Soft silences with sharp edges to represent the beats. A sharp digital snare. Spacing gives clarity and ambience to the music/art.
A good visual example of this practice would be this extract from ratatouille. The food is shown to have a musical and visual stimulating response showing that the main character probably has synesthaesia triggered through foods and that the senses are all connected.
