People with chromesthesia 'see' color in sounds. Artist Melissa McCracken is among them, and creates paintings based on the colors and scenes evoked by her favorite music. (hereandnow)
Between 5 and 15% of people have experienced some form of synesthesia,. The cross-wiring in the brain causes a second stimuli not associated with the first — some people visualize shapes when they hear sounds, for instance.
, who creates paintings based on the colors and scenes evoked by her favorite music, from Jimi Hendrix to the Spice Girls.'s Robin Young."It just was something that was natural, and [I] never second-guessed it, never even considered that someone might not be experiencing it as well." "I found this Michael Jackson song, and I turned to my friend and I was like, 'Oh, my gosh, this is perfect. It's an orange song. It matches my phone perfectly.' And he jumped in and he said, 'What do you mean it matches?'"McCracken says."That was kind of the epiphany moment of, 'Oh, my gosh, I might be experiencing things differently.
"It is a lot of color going on, and in the experience itself, there's a lot more movement. It's kind of translated into this static image, but there's a lot more movement going on, a lot more fading and new images coming in. So it's kind of a picking and choosing process of what elements I feel are most vital to the entire experience."
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