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Sound and Color

I'm trying to find an information about sound-color relations. One of most commonly system used - associates C with red, D with orange, E with yellow and so on.

My question here is: Where from this system of associations came from? When and where it was created?

I know other systems of color-sound tuning (like the one, based on octaves, where C is green if you follow up the frequency), and I'd like to know if this one - is a symbolic one, or if it has a deeper (pysiological? philosophical?) background.

Whoever I ask - nobody knows, but all of them - use this association scale. Can you help?

And I'd like also to know if there are other "technical" association systems.

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Permalink Reply by Christopher on October 16, 2011 at 7:51pm
I'm sorry, but I'm out of this discussion. My english is limited, so I'm using "shortcuts". But my desire to talk in this particular tone - is limited even more. Bye and good luck.
Permalink Reply by Alexandre Letellier on October 16, 2011 at 8:07pm
oh yeah right ... :)

Like "mainstream humankind" is a shortcut for "western cultural-ethnocentrism", well in a way it is...

But please continue, I'm the one who intruded...

Sincerely,
Alexandre
Permalink Reply by Susan Phillips on May 15, 2012 at 6:35pm

some link from tone to geometric shapes to color: I have seen a pile of sand on a metal plate form a pentagram when the plate was struck with a tuning fork-

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