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 morphed sounds - Violin ⇔ Oboe

Violin and oboe sounds morphed with different ratio s 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 morphed sounds in the ratio s 10:90, 30:70, 50:50, 70:30, 90:10 and followed by the original instrument as target (figure can be read from left to right and from right to left).

 

Violin and piano oboe morphed with different ratio s 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 morphed sounds in the ratio s 10:90, 30:70, 50:50, 70:30, 90:10 and followed by the original instrument as target (figure can be read from left to right and from right to left).

 

 


Violin morphed with French horn in the ratio 30:70 Violin morphed with French horn in the ratio 10:90 Violin morphed with French horn in the ratio 50:50 Violin morphed with French horn in the ratio 70:30 Violin, original Violin morphed with French horn in the ratio 90:10 French Horn, original