Mezzo Soprano Emily Harmon On Seeing Color Harmonies In Music

NOV 14, 202425 MIN
The Color Timer Podcast

Mezzo Soprano Emily Harmon On Seeing Color Harmonies In Music

NOV 14, 202425 MIN

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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