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Synesthesia – The Color of Music

Blue, listening to David Gilmour's "5 a.m."

Excerpt from upcoming January
issue Hudson Magazine, hudsonmagazine.us

by Lisa LaMonica, lisalamonica@yahoo.com

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I fall into a category of people who, when they hear music, see colors. Hearing music where each key does have a different brightness or mellowness to it, triggers color, shape and movement visualization. Sound to color synesthesia is what scientists describe as “senses crossing paths.” It's an experience rather than a thought where one sensory path leads to a second sensory path experience. Scientists believe that DNA on chromosome 16 is the reason for “colored sequence,” where a person assigns a color after hearing music, a word or numbers. This is a deep unchartered territory which is still being researched and explored. It's been determined that one in two thousand people experience synesthesia and those who do feel that it aids creativity.

Songs and whole albums are hinged relationships between color and emotion. Music, color and mood. Coldplay's song “Yellow” as one example, is about unrequited love and some people interviewed by the American Synesthesia Organization have assigned that color to that concept.

For many of us the Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon album and Moody Blues Days of Future Past naturally produced colors and imagery when hearing the flow of the music contained, and that imagery is retained and can be expessed then with paint on paper or canvas. Song titles with color names in them are also a strong trigger of the experience by some and not all.

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Excerpt from Nov issue, Hudson Magazine

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by Lisa LaMonica

Creativity creates what is known as “Flow”; a state of happiness where time, worries and anxieties melt away. Being in the process of a creative project with passion and focused attention, for some, is what makes life worth living and gives it more meaning. It's creativity that makes imagination possible.

For me, my home is my creative sanctuary, it is everything to me and where I make my art. Two years ago is when I bought my first home on my own, and it was such an important achievement to me. To be able to do this while being self employed, was a real dream come true for me.

The journey to my home was a long one; I had taken a detour trying to buy a two family house with a relative. It became clear that I needed to buy the house I now own, on my own.

My home would be where I needed peace and the ability to have solitude when I needed it to create and meet deadlines. This just wouldn't be possible or understood by a family member.

Writing, painting, or creating music for example, every day can feel like a chore when not inspired.

Buying a house at times seems so time consuming with so many business people becoming part of your daily life. Once you leave that closing table, and get the keys – that all goes away.