I have synesthesia.
I realized this around a week ago at a really grand percussion ensemble concert on campus. Always before when I listened to music live I was very focused in on the music and the sound, too focused maybe to even realize that what I felt as "crunchy" and "wave-like" were not universal feelings about what was going on in the music but a first-level abstraction of what was going on before my eyes.
I see shape-like things.
For a while now I have been discussing with everyone my ideas for a "better" music visualizer (think windows media player, only, you know, better). They ask me: "what do you mean by better? voice recognition?" "No, no," I say, frustrated, "tone, theme, crunchiness, smoothness, how much the music is like a bubble!" And they nod hesitantly, maybe willing to let me and my crazy ideas alone, maybe afraid to admit that they don't know much about music, probably not completely comprehending.
It is not about the music. Or rather, it is. I have a history of being irritated when the music visualizers do not "align" or "fit" to the music, and only now do I realize that it's because the shapes and textures on the screen do not fit with what I feel are the shapes and textures of the music.
So, my "better" music visualizer? Maybe it won't be better for anyone but me. Maybe, there is hope, though. I am not entirely certain that synesthesia is a personal thing, that there is not some universal base case for what is associated with what among people who associate the same this with the same that.
I am going to explore pathways into this, I'm looking into CSound and player-dependent music (there are no mistakes, if you make a "mistake" just go with it, each next part of the music relies on what has already happened, credit a friend I have, I am not certain what my ideas about intellectual property are yet, so if you want to play around with this, talk to me first and I'll pass on the name of this guy so that you can talk to him and potentially credit/acknowledge him).
Wish me luck. In any case, it is really fucking cool, this shape-thing. I have been delighted with it all week.
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: are the images in V1 or higher, because I see, or perhaps imagine I see, shapes of music ( and they do seem to be similar between people ), but its quite clear that most of the normal visual input is still accessible, which means that this is not an outright hallucination, so I don't know weather I can claim synesthesia.
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a few random approaches to extracting higher order features from music
: you've seen the visualizers whivh ( I assume ) operate on the Fourier transform of the sound, and respond to pitch, but nothing more.
: the autocorrelation matrix from Keegan's blog entry reveals structure and similarities between music.
: Another class of transforms which might be useful are the wavelet transforms. I think these should have the ability to extract the "crunchiness" and other textural properties of music that you seek.
: you could also try doing further transforms ( in the time domain ) of the frequency spectrum to get local beat / phrase structure ( although the autocorrelation matrix might still be better )
: I don't technically know what I'm talking about, but some day I might.
I think many people have some slight synesthesia with music. Like, many people see images in their heads when listening to music. I know I do.
Also, I have always seen numbers as the same colors as far back as I can remember. Maybe I just decided one day and then remembered? Thus creating my own synesthesia? Random associations are very useful for memorizing things.
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