Color/perfect pitch.

>Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 10:58:08
>To: monz@juno.com
>From: Sarn Richard Ursell <thcdelta@pop.ihug.co.nz>
>Subject: Color/perfect pitch.
>
>What you must realise Joe, is that the analogy between visual colors and
aural colors is parallel only in a sence that they represent a:perceptual
view of a wave frequency.
>
>Sure, we could match C with red, and distribute the 12 chromatic pitches of
the 12ET scale throughout the color spectrum/scale of 7 distinct primary and
secondary pigmentation colors, however, experiments with people who have
perfect pitch, has found that ALL PEOPLE ASSOCIATE DIFFERENT VISUAL COLORS
WITH AURAL COLORS OF NOTES!
>
>And even different smells, or so I'm told.
>
>SO, even though we are the same, we are all different.
>
>So, it becomes very difficult to tell, let alone provide a basis of
comparison for reference.
>
>There are, of course altered states of conciousness, and having these,
would very definitely FORCE the brain into hearing and seeing these colors,
at least for some people.
>
>A word of warning:EXPERIMENTING WITH THESE IS DANGEROUS, AND I DO NOT
RECOMEND IT.
>
>(I have heard storys of people feeling their cigarrette packets radiate
heat, staring transfixed at a steelo sponge for 3 hours, seeing Hanna
Barbara cartoon characters run arond the show ect......).
>
>I think hypnosis is the way to go, but what I need is a LASTING effect,
rather than just one that is there when I am at the hypnotist's office.
>
>By this I mean a REAL QUALIFIED hypnotist, not some self elected 120
dollars per hour con artist, with crystals, herbs, a tied back pony tail-the
works.
>
>(Yawn).
>
>Its just a matter of money, and time-something that everyone seems to be
short of.
>
>A lot of blind people have perfect pitch-aparently you hear the colors
repeating in darker and lighter tints in the higher octaves, implying that,
if we really could see radio and gamma waves, they would just be the same
old boring colors, again.
>
>One final thing:
>
>WHAT WOULD IT BE LIKE TO SEE/PERCIEVE A COLOR THAT HAD NEVER EVER EXISTED
IN ANY ONE'S MIND?
>
>By this, I mean a completely different perception from any combination of
th existing colors in our spectrum-much like an alien/exo-biology, with,
say, 17 color receptors, and a brain and optical system as advanced as ours
would percieve.
>
>Colors like:"Bloink", and "Twoil", and "Lemip".
>
>Mabey with interactive artificial intelligence, and also when humans have
the technology to reprogramme the brain structure and chemistry, by hooking
it up to a "bio-modem" and computer, well.....
>
>Who knows?
>
>Any thoughts?
>
>Sarn.
>