color and sound

[Ursell, TD 122-23:]
>
> How would I describe B color note to you?
> Well........, it was sort of a soft, stupid sound, like pink, or lilac
> (purple mixed with white-a bit more to the reddish shades).
>

Hmm . . . I've been pondering ways to use color to
represent differences in pitch on my lattices and in
my software for quite a while, and I thought a long
time ago that applying the spectrum to the octave made
sense, with red at the "1" end and going into the
violet as it approached "2", where it would be red again.

Maybe it would model our actual hearing better if
it went from red to violet as from "1" to the "tritone",
then smoothly backwards back to red at "2".

For someone who knows about the mathematics of color
combination, would this make the colors which represent
octave-complement ratios equal their sums (or products),
in the same way the sounds do intervallically?

-monz
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Sarn Richard Ursell's response to my post, in which
he discussed the subjectivity of color perception and
how it relates to sound, reminded me that "chroma,
the term I'm having such a hard time defining adequately now
for my purposes, thanks to Erlich's criticism - thanks, Paul :(
- is the Greek word which literally means "color".

I guess that subjectivity is why I'm having such a hard
time defining it properly.

-monz

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