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Aug 12, 2025 at 14:56 comment added mudskipper The reference to seeing and hearing is interesting (and imo shows how alienated philosophical discourse is from actual human experiences). We do (sensibly) speak of the "color" of a sound (for instance when describing a clarinet as sounding "dark", "brown", "woody"). It also conveniently ignores synesthesia -- which I suspect is far more common than people are aware of. Messiaen, the French composer, claimed that an Emaj chord with A# sounded like "blue-violet with hints of red" (musicandpractice.org/volume-2/…)
Jun 20, 2025 at 18:29 history answered Kristian Berry CC BY-SA 4.0