Rainbows in my ears - Synesthetic color perception with
partial-reduced and morphed musical instrument timbres
Christoph Reuter1, Jörg Jewanski1, Sarah Ambros1, Isabella Czedik-Eysenberg1, Saleh Siddiq1, Solange Glasser2, Jamie Ward3

1 SInES (Space for Interdisciplinary Experiments on Sound), University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
2 Music Psychology Department, Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, Melbourne, Australia
3 School of Psychology, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom

Timbre-induced color perception with partial-reduced sounds - Oboe

Oboe sounds with reduced partials (TT1 to TT10) as seen by synesthesists (sound on mouseover)
Colors perceived by synesthetes in comparison, in each case the color perception of the original instrument (twice, snd 1 and snd 2), followed by the partial-reduced sounds from one partial (TT1) up to ten partials (TT10).

 

Oboe sounds with reduced partials (TT1 to TT10) as seen by non-synesthesists (sound on mouseover)
Colors perceived by non-synesthetes in comparison, in each case the color perception of the original instrument (twice, snd 1 and snd 2), followed by the partial-reduced sounds from one partial (TT1) up to ten partials (TT10).

 

 


Oboe, reduced partials: 10 Oboe, reduced partials: 9 Oboe, reduced partials: 8 Oboe, reduced partials: 7 Oboe, reduced partials: 6 Oboe, reduced partials: 5 Oboe, reduced partials: 4 Oboe, reduced partials: 3 Oboe, reduced partials: 2 Oboe, reduced partials: 1 Oboe, original