Scriabin's Color Hearing Explained

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This video explains why Scriabin didn't have synesthesia in the way it's defined today and gives an alternative explanation while exploring Scriabin's system for color hearing.
How do you think Scriabin's color associations affected his music?
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@neilr5208 10 ай бұрын

Awesome!! Thank you for making a video about this topic that is so ubiquitously misunderstood.

@jaybeardmusic8074 10 ай бұрын

Thanks! Yea, I’m guilty of believing what was commonly stated until I read otherwise by a reliable source. I suppose the reason it’s so widely believed that Scriabin had synesthesia has to do with the color organ in Prometheus. Also, I think people only relatively recently have started to be more rigorous with the definition of synesthesia.

@Marklar3 10 ай бұрын

I'm skeptical that all synethesia isn't just a form of ideasthesia. We can talk ourselves into believing all kinds of things about our own mental states, or even beliefs about our own memories and development. Anyway, I appreciate the biographical background you brought to this subject.

@jaybeardmusic8074 10 ай бұрын

Yea makes me wonder if people like Billy Joel don’t just have Ideasthesia as well. However I do think synesthesia really exists in some people. The way ideasthetes and synesthetes describe their experience is quite different. There’s a good Ted talk from a women with synesthesia. I think scientists can more the less see why someone would have synesthesia with the interlacing of nerve fibers. It is interesting to be skeptical about this though.

@neilr5208 10 ай бұрын

There is actual research that shows connections between cortical regions responsible for senses, but a lot of these psychological conditions like synesthesia and aphantasia in my opinion are just people hearing about descriptions of a condition and convincing themselves they have it.

@juliazhou3514 10 ай бұрын

Thank you for these videos, my piano teacher and I are both incredibly interested in Scriabin! I've recently been working on his second sonata in g-sharp minor, so I was hoping you could make a video breaking down some elements in that one!!

@PeterYiffin 10 ай бұрын

Color-sound association seems very subjective, but when you presented the key center wheel I found myself completely agreeing with every one of Scriabin's choices. I wonder if there is some deeper correlation between key-color and the human mind.

@jaybeardmusic8074 10 ай бұрын

Wow, interesting! I wonder if anyone else can relate!

@hauthot287 5 ай бұрын

Notr really, at least in my opinion. Rachmaninov recalls in Recollections a conversation between him, Scriabin, ands Rimsky-Korsakov abt associating keys with colors where he points out that Scriabin associates e flat major with a reddish purple while Rimsky-Korsakov associates it with blue