Mezzo Soprano Emily Harmon On Seeing Color Harmonies In Music

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In today’s episode, we take a slightly different angle. We explore color through the eyes of a professional who works with music. Operatic mezzo-soprano Emily Harmon shares how music affects her vision and her extraordinary relationship with color through synesthesia.

I found our conversation fascinating, and it led me to question how a color grade could be shaped by the emotion of the moment, even at a subconscious level.
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Synesthesia: a perceptual phenomenon in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway. – Wikipedia
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• (00:00) - - Introduction
• (01:00) - - Emily Harmon introduction
• (02:37) - - What is a crossover artist?
• (05:30) - - Opera & Color?
• (09:55) - - Can it be overwhelming?
• (11:16) - - How did you find out you had Synesthesia?
• (13:58) - - Do the colors always match the sound?
• (15:27) - - Does vision induce hearing sounds?
• (17:54) - - Synesthesia and feature films
• (19:25) - - Do the tones of color come into this?
• (21:21) - - Do adjacent keys share similar colors?
• (23:44) - - Wrap up
• (24:09) - - Closing Remarks