SOUVIK CHAKRABORT Y
WHAT DO YOU SEE
WHEN YOU PLUG IN?
So do you see strong colours of pink, or red
when you listen to an Arijit Singh number?
Or do you feel like a canvas coming up to
life when you listen to a playlist of your
favourite songs? Well, if you can; it could
be that you are in possession of a special
talent called synesthesia? also mean that a coloured number will or will not
trigger a musical memory. There are more than 60
permutations of synesthesia, but the fun fact is that
studies have suggested around 4% of us have it in
some form.Synesthesia can also be heterogeneous
as many people with these qualities tend to see
different colours for similar music.
For the famous musician Duke
Ellington, the note of D seemed dark
blue while G was satin blue. When
Pharrell Williams was a little boy
Earth, he saw burgundy and blue,
when he listened to Wind. Kanye
West associated blue to pianos,
and dark brown and purple to
bass lines. Other famous artists
that have synesthesia include
the greats like Stevie Wonder,
Billy Joel, Mary J. Blige, and
Dev Hynes. So what happens
in synesthesia? Unfortunately
the legendary stalwarts like
the great Van Gogh could not
earn make much of his gifted
talent as he was mostly down
with the deviations of his piano
teacher who thought that the
act of associating colours and
numbers to music is purely an act
of insanity, in fact he categorically
suspended him from his classes.
Thanks to the outright admission
of this secret talent by Pharrel
Williams,"medical condition". There is a popular conjecture that, listening to
music through headphones will trigger blood flow
in the part of our brains that deals with sound.
When this part of the brain interacts with
the part responsible for sight as well, it
create the sensation called synesthesia.
Also, it has been formulated that
synesthesia is a dominant trait and
genetically carried down on the
X chromosome. In synesthesia it
is believed that the neurons and
the synapses are responsible for
the cross over from one sensory
system to the other.
Synesthesia is a Greek word which
means "joined perception". The cross-modal
association of sensations and their relationship
to musical perception leads to a kind of ability
that makes you see colours in everything that you
hear.Synesthesi