Pitch and colour octave

A few posters have asked about the connection between colour and pitch.

I put together a page on this about 18 years ago, which shows one practical way to map the colours to an octave.

http://www.harmonics.com/lucy/lsd/colors.html

and:

http://www.harmonics.com/lucy/lsd/freq2wl.html

I'm sure that the "usual suspects" will argue with my use of the speed of light in a vacuum. and wavelengths as the "benchmark", but at least it does explain why C is often considered to be green etc.

Arbitrary as it may seem, I have used this mapping since this time on my various sites and publications, and it generally seems to work to my display satisfaction.

(Is it art or is it science?;-)

The synaesthisa connection between pitch and color is interesting, yet the "benchmarks" seem to be determined by the particularities of the observers' neural crosstalk.

Another system can be found here (similar system-different benchmark);:

http://www.harmonics.com/myron/hccs/seal.html

This is how my old friend Myron Blazek (who experiences pitch/color synaesthesia) sees colours as he hears pitches.

Charles Lucy - lucy@harmonics.com
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Splendid dear Charles. I like the keyboard diagram most of all.

Cordially,
Ozan
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From: Charles Lucy
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Sent: 21 Ocak 2005 Cuma 21:12
Subject: [tuning] Pitch and colour octave

A few posters have asked about the connection between colour and pitch.

I put together a page on this about 18 years ago, which shows one
practical way to map the colours to an octave.

http://www.harmonics.com/lucy/lsd/colors.html

and:

http://www.harmonics.com/lucy/lsd/freq2wl.html