Re: Vowel "colors", was "colored scripts" etc.

From: "Dan Sulani" <dnsulani@...>

>     In the same way of thinking, why not extend
> the idea to _sound_? Not like the old
> "sol re sol", but more subtle, using, perhaps,
> microtones for one dimension, (or perhaps the "Western"
> notes for "vowels" and microtones in between for
> "consonants"), timbres or types of instrument for another, etc.
> (Naturally, trumpets get the best grammatical features!  ;-)   )
> "Words" could be chords ("read" from low sound to high or the reverse)
> and understood simultaneously, the way chords are heard in music,
> instead of as a sequence of "musical-phonemes"!
Lemme think about that.... if the octave in Western equal temperament tuning
is divided into 12 equal parts, then the color wheel would be used at 12
equadistant points. Red would be assigned to C, giving the following:

C = red
C#/Db = orange
D = yellow
D#/Eb = green-yellow
E = green
F = green-cyan
F#/Gb = cyan (or aqua)
G = blue-cyan
G#/Ab = blue
A = indigo, violet (or blue-magenta)
A#/Bb = magenta (or fuchsia)
B = scarlet (or red-magenta)

Luminance (or brightness) of colors may be used to indicate a lower or
higher octave.

But all this can be a problem unless you're really good at seeing colors;
same goes for vowel descriptions....

~Danny~


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