Color and tone color: audiovisual crossmodal correspondences with musical instrument timbre.

ABSTRACT: Crossmodal correspondences, or widely shared tendencies for mapping experiences across sensory domains, are revealed in common descriptors of musical timbre such as bright, dark, and warm. Two experiments are reported in which participants listened to recordings of musical instruments playing major scales, selected colors to match the timbres, and rated the timbres on crossmodal semantic scales. Experiment A used three different keyboard instruments, each played in three pitch registers. Stimuli in Experiment B, representing six different orchestral instruments, were similar to those in Experiment A but were controlled for pitch register. Overall, results were consistent with hypothesized concordances between ratings on crossmodal timbre descriptors and participants' c

SUBMITTER: Reymore L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11747214 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature