Music in Colour

Carmichael, Duncan

Abstract

This chapter provides a neuropsychological account of Messiaen’s well-known sound-to-colour synaesthesia. It offers an overview of the perceptual, cognitive, and neurological mechanisms underlying the condition, with reference to Messiaen’s own experience and to scientific understandings of this phenomenon.

Citation

Carmichael, D. (2023). Music in Colour. In R. Sholl (Ed.), Messiaen in Context (240-247). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108768290

• Online Publication Date: Nov 9, 2023
• Publication Date: Nov 30, 2023
• Deposit Date: Oct 1, 2024
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Pages: 240-247
• Book Title: Messiaen in Context
• Chapter Number: 26
• ISBN: 9781108487917; 9781108738231
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108768290
• Keywords: synaesthesia, colour and sound, psychology, science