Color association with different keys

This is something I've always found really interesting. I was reading something about Scriabin and how he always associated colors with keys and he sometime even wrote a color part to his music. This is what I see when I think of keys

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http://www.youngcomposers.com/forum/scriabins-colour-13321.html

http://www.youngcomposers.com/forum/synaesthesia-tonality-10985.html

http://www.youngcomposers.com/forum/thinking-keys-4480.html

http://www.youngcomposers.com/forum/alexander-scriabin-1909.html

http://www.youngcomposers.com/forum/musical-keys-colors-1491.html

http://www.youngcomposers.com/forum/meaning-music-962.html

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Thank you flint :P

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Hey guys, I'm new to the board, and am so glad I found a place like this. Hope you all are doing well!!

I don't so much associate keys with colors. I don't know about some of you, but I find different keys to be more reflective of different emotions. I think a lot of times when I play something in G, it feels kind of reflective to me. Call me crazy, but I'm thinking that's what I hear.

I associate a very few keys with colors.

E flat Major is my green key

D Major is my red key

D dorian is my white key (mode, I know)

G minor is my black key

and that's about it. There are some vague notions of color other places, but nothing palpable enough to write about.

I associate C major with white and Gb pentatonic major with black. I wonder why!

I see colours when I listen to music, or I read it on paper, also sometimes when I read regular text. And also when I play music or I compose.

I have keys that assume different colours and I also feel a kind of vibration in my hear... it is not something that shakes, but it's like when you see a very tasty pastry and you get that weird feel that makes u want and buy it (maybe it's just me on this too eheheh).

sometimes I also feel temperature sensations when I listen or play music, and this leads me to see things, but I warn you, it is not all vividly depicted, it is more like a shadow, a nuance... it is not a strong colour or image.

I really like this, and makes me feel more involved in what I do.

The colour I see are not the same for same note/same tonality, like D and D major. They share the same nuances, but ,with the tonality, it is a bit more stronger and full regarding other colours too, not only because there are more notes, but also because their interaction makes it different. So for example I see this

C maj = VIVID RED, almost GOLD, like the feel you get when you see red and gold together.

A min = LIGHT VIOLET with some little of light BLUE in it

G maj = BLUE like the one you see in the sky when you have those great sunny and warm days, and it can be also a bit darker depending on my mood too.

E min = LIGHT GREEN but a real light one, kind of like the highlighter green but not that much light :-p

D maj = ORANGE-RED but not like C maj, more into orange

B min = DARKER VIOLET

E maj = EMERALD GREEN

C# min = DARK GRAY

F maj = GOLD YELLOW

D min = DARK RED, kind of bloodish

Bb maj = YELLOW, like lemon and anyway not gold.. With a feel of “cold” in it

G min = “COLD” WHITE

Eb maj = GOLDISH GREEN, with a feeling of warmth

C min = BLACK

Ab maj = PEARL

F min = BROWN

Then I don’t use other tonalities for my compositions so I didn’t experiment but for the single notes those colours may apply but with a less defined nuance.

By the way music and colours are related to one another, since they both work on frequencies.

Anyway hope I didn’t bore you all with this. Thanks a lot for reading

- Guglielmo

Why do you still write things in minor or major keys..?

I see colours when I listen to music, or I read it on paper, also sometimes when I read regular text. And also when I play music or I compose.

I have keys that assume different colours and I also feel a kind of vibration in my hear... it is not something that shakes, but it's like when you see a very tasty pastry and you get that weird feel that makes u want and buy it (maybe it's just me on this too eheheh).

sometimes I also feel temperature sensations when I listen or play music, and this leads me to see things, but I warn you, it is not all vividly depicted, it is more like a shadow, a nuance... it is not a strong colour or image.

I really like this, and makes me feel more involved in what I do.

The colour I see are not the same for same note/same tonality, like D and D major. They share the same nuances, but ,with the tonality, it is a bit more stronger and full regarding other colours too, not only because there are more notes, but also because their interaction makes it different. So for example I see this

C maj = VIVID RED, almost GOLD, like the feel you get when you see red and gold together.

A min = LIGHT VIOLET with some little of light BLUE in it

G maj = BLUE like the one you see in the sky when you have those great sunny and warm days, and it can be also a bit darker depending on my mood too.

E min = LIGHT GREEN but a real light one, kind of like the highlighter green but not that much light :-p

D maj = ORANGE-RED but not like C maj, more into orange

B min = DARKER VIOLET

E maj = EMERALD GREEN

C# min = DARK GRAY

F maj = GOLD YELLOW

D min = DARK RED, kind of bloodish

Bb maj = YELLOW, like lemon and anyway not gold.. With a feel of

Why do you still write things in minor or major keys..?

Because just as the 2nd Viennese school outgrew tonality, we outgrew atonality.

Granted one shouldn't write in the style of Brahms or Mozart anymore (though if you can really write like Brahms, maybe you should) but everything's been done. Major, minor, modes, tone rows, penta- hexa- octo-tonic, whole tones, microtones. It's all been done. It's just a matter of arranging the notes pleasantly and appropriately. Major and minor tonalities can work to this end.

Synesthesia is a partially genetic phenomenon. It is caused when there is cross wiring between a sensory area in the brain and another area of the brain. The most common form of synesthesia is color-number synesthesia. That is because the color center of the brain is located adjacent to the brain's number center.

Synesthesia is 8 times more common among artistically able people even when their synesthesia is not related to the form of art they practice, for example a poet with number-color synesthesia. It is theorized that that is because people with synesthesia have brains with a tendency to more liberaly form connections between different areas.

People who experience color forms of synesthesia generally observe the same relations between colors and stimuli. Thus, for example, different people who experience number-color stimuli generally associate the same number with the same color.

Source:

YouTube - V.S. Ramachandran at Beyond Belief 2007 Part 1

I'm jealous; I don't associate senses or emotion with any particular key, except that I know that the key of 'C' is easier to play and write in than the key of 'Cb'. So when people say 'C' is a bland key, I don't really know what they're talking about, save that it can get depressing when you don't get to play the black keys.