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tenlittlebullets) wrote2004-12-17 06:12 am
tenlittlebullets) wrote2004-12-17 06:12 am
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I wouldn't quite call it a meme, but I'm really bored so I thought it'd be fun to list some of my more interesting synesthetic reactions to a few certain songs...
1. VNV Nation - Kingdom - Deep, pulsing blue with more blurry bluish "strokes" for the legato elements
2. VNV Nation - Honour - Absinthe green, and the intro is SPARKLY. Oooh.
(actually, most VNV sets the synesthesia off liek mad crazy. Mostly in blue and green though, and in the same general patterns. But the sparklies on 'Honour' and 'Solitary' kick ass.)
3. Rammstein - Sonne - A little like the video, except substitute a subway tunnel for the mine shaft, with a ray of orange sunlight penetrating down every time the female vocal sample plays
4. Rammstein - Ich Will - Blue and purple sine/cosine waves scrolling together across a black background, with dark TV static for the guitar parts
5. Rammstein - Wilder Wein [studio] - A really rich and deep bluish-purple, that covers my whole mind's eye field of vision and doesn't let up at all. A little too rich and deep, actually.
6. Rammstein - Wilder Wein [Live aus Berlin] - just interesting because it's so different. A very light, smoky greenish-yellow, almost like smoke, wavering against a black background. (Sehnsucht is the opposite. The studio version was greenish-yellow, but the LaB one was blue.)
7. Phantom of the Opera - The Point of No Return - deep green undertones throughout, prominent during the more flowing parts. When the weird "you have come here" chords come in, it's deep green and orange.
8. Just thought I'd mention that Sarah Brightman's voice is very dark and glassy and rippled, almost like obsidian except... rounder. I dunno. It's a nice effect.
9. Phantom of the Opera - All I Ask of You - is yellow [verses] and orange. Ew.
10. Everything off First and Last and Always by the Sisters of Mercy is in varying grayscale, usually towards the black end. There are tinges and highlights of color, though--parts of 'Marian' are tinted slightly copper, and what sounds like a keyboard on 'Some Kind of Stranger' is very light and sharp and almost pink. Mostly, though, it's black on gray.
11. I freely admit that I used to listen to Eminem purely for synesthetic effect. 'Kill You' reads as black serif text on a white background, with dotted orange spirals for the beat; 'The Real Slim Shady' is dusky grayish blue. I still think the iridescent ripples and thin purple horizontal lines on 'The Way I Am' are beautiful.
12. Funker Vogt is kinda trippy; very dense masses of green and yellow and purple lines all put through a Gaussian blur against a black background. I'm thinking of 'This World' in particular, but all FV sounds the same so it doesn't really matter.
13. I only know a couple Nightwish songs, but I remember from hearing one of them in passing that they've made one of the only songs I've ever heard produce bright red. Of the few I know, 'Dead Boy's Poem' starts out blue and adds pinkish stuff on top later in the song, with the piano part white like sprinkles, and 'Angels Fall First' is a very pale pink.
It should also be noted that 'Blue (Da ba dee)' is not blue, but silver with a little bit of turquoise.
If yeh've got any more answers for this, please give 'em, because next post I'm putting up the answers.
1. VNV Nation - Kingdom - Deep, pulsing blue with more blurry bluish "strokes" for the legato elements
2. VNV Nation - Honour - Absinthe green, and the intro is SPARKLY. Oooh.
(actually, most VNV sets the synesthesia off liek mad crazy. Mostly in blue and green though, and in the same general patterns. But the sparklies on 'Honour' and 'Solitary' kick ass.)
3. Rammstein - Sonne - A little like the video, except substitute a subway tunnel for the mine shaft, with a ray of orange sunlight penetrating down every time the female vocal sample plays
4. Rammstein - Ich Will - Blue and purple sine/cosine waves scrolling together across a black background, with dark TV static for the guitar parts
5. Rammstein - Wilder Wein [studio] - A really rich and deep bluish-purple, that covers my whole mind's eye field of vision and doesn't let up at all. A little too rich and deep, actually.
6. Rammstein - Wilder Wein [Live aus Berlin] - just interesting because it's so different. A very light, smoky greenish-yellow, almost like smoke, wavering against a black background. (Sehnsucht is the opposite. The studio version was greenish-yellow, but the LaB one was blue.)
7. Phantom of the Opera - The Point of No Return - deep green undertones throughout, prominent during the more flowing parts. When the weird "you have come here" chords come in, it's deep green and orange.
8. Just thought I'd mention that Sarah Brightman's voice is very dark and glassy and rippled, almost like obsidian except... rounder. I dunno. It's a nice effect.
9. Phantom of the Opera - All I Ask of You - is yellow [verses] and orange. Ew.
10. Everything off First and Last and Always by the Sisters of Mercy is in varying grayscale, usually towards the black end. There are tinges and highlights of color, though--parts of 'Marian' are tinted slightly copper, and what sounds like a keyboard on 'Some Kind of Stranger' is very light and sharp and almost pink. Mostly, though, it's black on gray.
11. I freely admit that I used to listen to Eminem purely for synesthetic effect. 'Kill You' reads as black serif text on a white background, with dotted orange spirals for the beat; 'The Real Slim Shady' is dusky grayish blue. I still think the iridescent ripples and thin purple horizontal lines on 'The Way I Am' are beautiful.
12. Funker Vogt is kinda trippy; very dense masses of green and yellow and purple lines all put through a Gaussian blur against a black background. I'm thinking of 'This World' in particular, but all FV sounds the same so it doesn't really matter.
13. I only know a couple Nightwish songs, but I remember from hearing one of them in passing that they've made one of the only songs I've ever heard produce bright red. Of the few I know, 'Dead Boy's Poem' starts out blue and adds pinkish stuff on top later in the song, with the piano part white like sprinkles, and 'Angels Fall First' is a very pale pink.
It should also be noted that 'Blue (Da ba dee)' is not blue, but silver with a little bit of turquoise.
If yeh've got any more answers for this, please give 'em, because next post I'm putting up the answers.