Elle Hogan <[log in to unmask]>: >[log in to unmask] writes: > >>What do you think is the cause of your associations? > >Does the word "tone" ring a bell? How about "chiaroscuro"? I don't think that the explanation lies in the mere synestesia. Actually, I was thinking about events that comes to the mind together, and that were bonded once by diverse experiences. As Spinoza once wrote (Ethics, Part III, Prop. XIV): "When the soul has been affected once by two simultaneous passions, if it's later affected by one of them, it will be affected also by the second one". (sorry for the translation). This sort of "inertia" law is the key of the leitmotive technique. It's also an elegant way of describing some feelings and almost any kind of mental association. >Certainly, we know that tone applies to both music and color... And >sound and color are really waves...frequencies... The argument seems scientifically correct. However, the fact that music and color are essentially waves of different lenght isn't enough to establish a solid aesthetic correlate between both (which should be mainly cultural, I guess). Actually I doubt that I could apply a table of equivalents between musical chords and the different cooking times of my microwave oven. >Our brains really do try to connect the dots...don't you think? I wouldn't say that they do "try". They simply do connect the dots. The "why" isn't very clear sometimes. Pablo Massa [log in to unmask]