[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Dear Walt, > I'm behind on my digests as well, but I am thrilled to know that I wasn't > nuts! Thanks so much for easing my mind!
Aahh, no, not nuts at all. I'd say you're in excellent company of the most sensitive and perceptive kind. Here's some info about Wassily Kandinsky, whose book "Concerning the Spiritual in Art" includes his ideas about the effect of colors and music on one's soul. >From http://www.oir.ucf.edu/wm/paint/auth/kandinsky/: "Kandinsky, himself an accomplished musician, once said 'Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul.' The concept that color and musical harmony are linked has a long history, intriguing scientists such as Sir Isaac Newton. Kandinsky used color in a highly theoretical way associating tone with timbre (the sound's character), hue with pitch, and saturation with the volume of sound. He even claimed that when he saw color he heard music." And some details: http://www.schoenberg.at/4_exhibits/asc/Kandinsky/Farbe_e.htm And while I was looking around I found this too: http://library.thinkquest.org/C007660/main_3.html, which includes the intriguing section called "I feel the music through my eyes." Georges Seurat comes to mind also as an artist who associated colors with music, or maybe he just painted musicians. Hmmm, I'll investigate. Debra Shea NP: A cd of a friend performing his original music... wow, good stuff.
