http://us.cnn.com/2005/TECH/science/03/03/taste.sounds.reut/index.html
Interesting article about a woman who can literally taste the interval of notes and sees notes as colors. Way cool, I bet it's a real trip.
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Trippy. So right away, it makes me wonder what the reverse would be like. -- I wonder what a marinated Filet Mignon, bacon-wrapped and lightly grilled, smothered with sauteed mushrooms and onions would sound.like?
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synaesthesia, right? Isn't that the name of the phenomenon? It shows up in Romantic and symbolist literature. People used to assume that it was a literary convention but as it turns out, some people do have perceptions that cross senses. Fascinating stuff.
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Trippy. So right away, it makes me wonder what the reverse would be like. -- I wonder what a marinated Filet Mignon, bacon-wrapped and lightly grilled, smothered with sauteed mushrooms and onions would sound.like?
It would be, of course, a symphony of flavor!
I remember times when I've seen and tasted more than colors when the music was playing.
Pink elephants and cowgirls were dancing across the ceiling. Does that count?
Joe
Interesting, because Jimi Hendrix always used colours to describe tones - maybe he had the same thing.
According to Sky News "A minor second interval is sour, a minor third is salty.
When she hears a major second it is definitely bitter, but major thirds are sweet and a minor sixth is always creamy.
And it is not just taste, but colour that she associates with sound. The note C is red and F sharp is violet."
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I remember times when I've seen and tasted more than colors when the music was playing.
Pink elephants and cowgirls were dancing across the ceiling. Does that count?
Joe
I think I've experienced that too. I could even feel the sounds...felt like somebody slapping and punching me in the face. I think the song was still stuck in my head as I could feel the bass pounding away in my head the next day.
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Trippy. So right away, it makes me wonder what the reverse would be like. -- I wonder what a marinated Filet Mignon, bacon-wrapped and lightly grilled, smothered with sauteed mushrooms and onions would sound.like?
I hope she doesn't do that, I don't even put any peppersauce on the fillet minion. You have your Sirloin and your Bone Caps, fine, A1 steak sauce material. If you are quite a fancy diner you have your round eyes and your striploin, that will taste good with whatever you want. You if your boss is coming over, or you just got a bonus, and you're eating fillet minion or T-Bone steaks or whatever, you better not touch that with any sauce or meat or onions or mushrooms.
Anyways I'm surprised that they say that C is red. Shakespearian endings are always compared to both the C chord and the colour green. Funny how some effects are cultural.
Rock and Roll- I taste Budweiser
Country- I taste Pabst Blue Ribbon
Jazz- I don't know what kind it is, but I taste wine.
Classical- I'm still tasting wine, but this is better.
Rap- I'm gettin' sick, I gotta go home now. :D
If you know something better than Rock and Roll, I'd like to hear it - Jerry Lee Lewis
Hahah, way to tell it, Wes...
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