{"id":3799,"date":"2018-04-18T12:39:34","date_gmt":"2018-04-18T16:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/?p=3799"},"modified":"2018-04-18T12:39:34","modified_gmt":"2018-04-18T16:39:34","slug":"sound-is-sight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/sound-is-sight\/","title":{"rendered":"Sound is sight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Synesthesia.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3800\" src=\"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Synesthesia-300x169.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"655\" height=\"368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Synesthesia-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Synesthesia-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Synesthesia-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Synesthesia.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 655px) 100vw, 655px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Synesthesia is the technical name given to the psychological phenomenon of being able to see colour as the result of sounds.\u00a0 For example, some individuals are able to see certain colours when they hear a\u00a0specific note in music and will associate that tone of sound to red for example.\u00a0 While it remains to be\u00a0ascertained whether people are genuinely\u00a0producing the\u00a0photo neurons\u00a0of colour in their brains\u00a0when the tone, pitch and volume of a sound forces their brain into producing a specific\u00a0coloured image or whether their brain is forcing them to imagine it, scientific evidence has proven that this does indeed force the brain into at least creating the perception of colour.\u00a0 Ramifications of this\u00a0range from the ability to\u00a0\u00a0open oneself up to &#8216;deep listening&#8217;- a process brought up in Pedro&#8217;s <em>deep listening, open ears<\/em> Mook, to being able to have a significantly better and more sophisticated grasp of sound, resulting in an increased ability to create melodies and harmonies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/beethoven_810_500_55_s_c1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3803\" src=\"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/beethoven_810_500_55_s_c1-300x185.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/beethoven_810_500_55_s_c1-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/beethoven_810_500_55_s_c1-768x474.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/beethoven_810_500_55_s_c1.jpg 810w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is often said that Beethoven unwittingly had synesthesia after he\u00a0described\u00a0his\u00a0colourful thoughts\u00a0abilities, which\u00a0was\u00a0only furthered by the fact that he was 60% deaf by the end of his career.\u00a0 His partial deafness is likely to have been the foundation from which his synesthesia arose and subsequently enabled him to maintain his abilities by filling the partial void in his hearing with a more creative alternative.\u00a0 His creativity and musical genius is a manifestation of the power of synesthesia and subsequently the power of sound.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Synesthesia is the technical name given to the psychological phenomenon of being able to see colour as the result of sounds.\u00a0 For example, some individuals are able to see certain colours when they hear a\u00a0specific note in music and will associate that tone of sound to red for example.\u00a0 While it remains to be\u00a0ascertained whether &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/sound-is-sight\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sound is sight&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3141,"featured_media":3800,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"coauthors":[2600],"class_list":["post-3799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3141"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3804,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3799\/revisions\/3804"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3799"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}