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Colours and emotions research

How can we give those with hearing disabilities a way to experience music visually?

I wanted to investigate the correlations between music and colour, and explore how practitioners use colour in their works to associate with chords. As my intentions are to create a series of outcomes which stimulate similar emotions, and feelings in which music does, I began researching artists who are influenced by music and other practitioners who use music to support their concepts. 
Isaac Newton was a well known scientist who found answers to colour through nature and music. He believed the order of rainbow colours had a harmony, and thought of colours as musical notes. Within this theory he was able to visualise the colour harmonies and the contrasts through the chords, influencing the 'Colour Wheel Theory'. 



Melissa S McCracken is an artist who creates synesthetic art to relate to her experience with music. Synesthetsia refers to the production of a sense impression relating to one sense or part of the body by stimulation of another sense or part of the body. McCracken stated “Basically, my brain is cross-wired,” she explains regarding her synesthesia. “I experience the ‘wrong' sensation to certain stimuli. Each letter and number is coloured and the days of the year circle around my body as if they had a set point in space. But the most wonderful ‘brain malfunction' of all is seeing the music I hear. It flows in a mixture of hues, textures, and movements, shifting as if it were a vital and intentional element of each song.” She ends up creating these polychromatic pieces, flooding the canvas with texture and creating very abstract, vibrant and quite explosive compositions.    

 


Wassily Kandinsky is an expressionist artist who is heavily influenced by music. 
Exploring chords in the orchestra in his pieces, he uses shapes, colours and structure to create pieces which he believed should influence the soul, as music does.


I designed a questionnaire as an experiment to explore others views on colour associations with emotions. This information will assist towards me exploring visual language and how colour can play a part in identifying music genres.  

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