Entire songs or musical genres evoke overall color impressions or palettes.
Inducer
song
Concurrent
color
Category
Auditory Visual
Entire songs or musical genres evoke overall color impressions or palettes. Frank Ocean named his album 'Channel Orange' because orange was the color he saw when he first fell in love. Lorde has described refusing to finish songs whose color palettes feel wrong.
Ward, J. et al. (2024). Synaesthesia and music preference. Psychology of Music, 53(3).
View publication →Palmer, S.E. et al. (2013). Music-color associations are mediated by emotion. PNAS, 110(22).
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