Re: [tuning] back to the future [sound, light and action]

the 7/4 is blue joe

Joseph Pehrson wrote:

> TD #618:
>
> > Could we possibly perceive tuning in remembered pitches?
> > How can tuning happen linearly? Any feelings?
> >
> > jason yust
> >
> We're halfway on the path back to "Mark C." with this one... wouldn't
> you say?? BTW, I personally found those days, including the discussion
> of the implications of transferring esthetic vibrations ACROSS media...
> i.e. from sound to light or whatever, fascinating. It seems most of it
> really is hogwash, though, but fun to think about. Doesn't it seem like
> other psychological considerations in this are paramount... our
> associations of color with keys or sounds. I believe this kind of
> approach is what Scriabin used... But are there not people who actually
> SEE frequencies as specific colors, through their specific mental
> wiring?? I thought I read something of this nature. Wow, this is
> really a technical post...
>
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"the 7/4 is blue joe"

Intervals have colors for me, too. It's not really "the notes are the
colors", it's "if the notes had colors (which is silly), these would surely
be them. The most powerful are the first 5 of the diatonic scale:

1/1 - white, the "neutral" color and the most basic
9/8 - blue, a cool and flowing color (not entirely based on water - water's
clear anyway)
5/4 - green: in equal temperment, the washed-out green of dying grass; in
JI, a juicy limeish green
4/3 - yellow, like the river in China with all the mud
3/2 - fire engine red

If 7/4 were blue it would surely be a silvery metallic blue, like fish
scales.

Stay Tuned,
Keenan P

P.S. I would never lie about anything like this.

Keenan

You may want to look at Barbara Hero's work
at http://www.lambdoma.com and then there is of course
Hazrat Khan's book. But my comment was on the blues 7th
but you took the bait---hippie :-))

Pat

At Thu, 27 Apr 2000 17:36:53 -0400, you wrote:
>
>"the 7/4 is blue joe"
>
>Intervals have colors for me, too. It's not really "the notes are the
>colors", it's "if the notes had colors (which is silly), these would surely
>be them. The most powerful are the first 5 of the diatonic scale:
>
>1/1 - white, the "neutral" color and the most basic
>9/8 - blue, a cool and flowing color (not entirely based on water - water's
>clear anyway)
>5/4 - green: in equal temperment, the washed-out green of dying grass; in
>JI, a juicy limeish green
>4/3 - yellow, like the river in China with all the mud
>3/2 - fire engine red
>
>If 7/4 were blue it would surely be a silvery metallic blue, like fish
>scales.
>
>Stay Tuned,
> Keenan P
>
>P.S. I would never lie about anything like this.
>
>
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