When asked what they consider themselves to be experts in, Erivo, who said music is like her second language, shared that she ...
Green Mondays, pointy chickens and chocolate-flavored metronomes may sound like children’s-book fantasies, but they’re a mundane reality for some people. To them, words can have tastes, tastes can ...
It’s time to stop scoffing at the synesthetes: linking music to colors is totally normal. It’s not really about the notes, though. Researchers say the colors we find in music are actually the colors ...
A local music teacher has become one of the most successful choir directors in greater Cincinnati. She credits her rare neurological condition as one of the keys to her success. "For me, it's one of ...
FARGO - One of Kat Smith’s favorite songs makes her see popcorn butter yellow. Now 32, she still thinks about a middle school classmate. It’s not that she knew him well, but his voice evoked a shade ...
Would they be the same ones you’d pick for an album cover or music video for the heavy metal band Metallica? Probably not. For years, my collaborators and I have been studying music-to-color ...
If you were toy ask what music looks like, most people might refer to John Mayer’s famous guitar face. Ask anyone affected by synesthesia, however, and you might get a vivid kaleidoscopic blur of ...
If I told you the letter “G” is red, you might be confused. But if you had what’s called grapheme-color synesthesia (GC), there’s a good chance you’d argue I’m wrong. That’s because many people who ...
Ever since I can remember, numbers have appeared to me in specific colors. The number 2 is baby pink, 3 is sunshine yellow, 4 is royal blue-the list goes on. It’s not just that they look a certain way ...
Wherever I see the color '4,' it glows orange in my mind's eye. I still see it as black on a white page but I know, somewhere deep down, that it's really orange. It's the same way I know that 7 is ...