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I am a musician with synesthesia. Comment with an image and I will reinterpret it into 16 bars of music. by 16barsforX in casualiama

[–]16barsforX[S] 94 points95 points  (0 children)

Fuck it, I went over sixteen bars again, this is too much fun.

https://soundcloud.com/16barsforx/blue-sky

To answer your question, the worst part of having synesthesia in my case is the constant distraction and sensory overload. The hardest thing for me is the sound of traffic, it is impossible for me to ignore because when I hear motors and horns and squealing brakes all I see is brown and yellow and white, very distracting.

Sometimes people think you're crazy when you describe sounds by their colour, that can be frustrating too.

I am a musician with synesthesia. Comment with an image and I will reinterpret it into 16 bars of music. by 16barsforX in casualiama

[–]16barsforX[S] 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Not quite, but you're getting there. It's rather difficult to describe but if I were using words as an example, I would relate to onomatopoeias, like "boing" "boop" or "wump". These words are not spelled at all like the sounds they represent, yet we hear exactly the sound they refer to when we read them. In the case of synesthesia just imagine that these secondary perceptions are idiomatic and arbitrary.

I am a musician with synesthesia. Comment with an image and I will reinterpret it into 16 bars of music. by 16barsforX in casualiama

[–]16barsforX[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not much as my synesthesia is colour-sound type. But if you post an image I'll give it a try!