I remember sitting on a bench in the Strasbourg museum of modern and contemporary arts. In front of me was the Salon de Musique designed by Kandinsky. At first, there was the color of the walls. One was made of anise tiles, another was deeply dark. Not much happened. But then, after nearly a minute, the abstract figures started to produce sounds in my mind. Some squiggles turned into a violin section, parallel lines became busy percussions, and soon there was a whole symphony of timbre dialoguing before my eyes. The imagined volume of these sounds left me in a state of oceanic awe that carried me around the museum, open to every piece and profoundly enchanted. Your video made me think again about this experience and realise that it was what Kandinsky intended. How inspiring. Thank you.
Barnaby, watching this essay was an emotionally intense experience. I felt my heart racing when you illuminated the chords in the last geometric work. Tasteful pace, riveting content and impressive composition mate.
Thank you so much Finnian. I'm so glad you enjoyed the video. I actually planned the whole video out knowing I was going to do that illumination towards the end - I'm just glad I was able to do it when I arrived at that point!
I’m so so happy you’ve made this, it’s almost brought a tear to my eye. I remember a friend of mine years ago told me about Kandinsky when I told her I saw patterns when I hear sounds. I immediately looked up his work and I could not BELIEVE my eyes, he painted EXACTLY what I saw. I was heavily convinced he saw music the same way I do, this video really drove it home. Thank you.
I had experienced Synesthesia with Beethoven's music; a plethora of vivid floral ribbons of different colors. Perception is multidimentional including and transcending our senses !
This is the only good video about Kandinsky on the internet. Thoughtful, creative, and without the misinformation that routinely circulates about him. Bravo many times over and many thanks.
Such a well made video, extremely fascinating. I'm absolutely shocked at the size of your channel. I really hope the hard work pays off for you eventually!
How amazingly meta to have a video on art in which not only the subject of the video is beautiful, but also the video in and of itself. Like the art of Kandinsky, your videos are creatively inspired, masterfully arranged, and, most importantly, emotionally poignant. Thank you Listening In for your hard work!
His synesthesia is an interesting facet of Kandinsky that helps explain his works but each person's color-sounds would be different, and the artist would likely say the same.
Subjectivity is what sort of draws the line here. How can we ever figure out the true relationship between sounds and colours if every experience of that relationship is subjectively different?
Beautiful video, loved the sound editing in this one. You also explained Kandinsky in a way that is understandable and relatable to people who might not be well-versed in the aesthetic theories behind it all. Content like this is truly valuable.
As a musician and budding artist, I found this fascinating. Without having synesthesia, it's hard to understand exactly what Kandinsky experienced. Synesthesia could be considered a seventh or eighth sense, one that not everyone has. Thank you for this video!
Well done! I didn't know what I have is called synesthesia until recently. I just thought it was a special gift (still do). Pretty cool that Kandinsky had it too! Thanks for this informative video.
This is so brilliant. Are you planning a series on other artists? Even if there's no obvious musical connection, your research and production will surely make this a worthy topic. I'm glad to see subscriber numbers rising.
Bravo! Thank you for posting this. It struck many chords within me, and left me breathless at various points. You've put together an excellent summary that gives me a much broader appreciation of his work.. much more than I ever could have imagined. Loved this one❣
You have some videos about russian chauvinist artists and their works (used for long time for propaganda and legalize of russian aggression), but no one word about Ukrainian composites, or about their works. No one video about Schedryk or "Cossak Rode beyond the Danube". That's sad. And l understand, why it's happen. For centuries, Russia has been promoting the cult of the greatness of Russian culture, while at the same time using the heritage of foreign cultures (Tchaikovsky stole Ukrainian melodies, and Bortnyansky, Berezovsky and Vedel have been were Ukrainian composers, but Russia distorts their image). Ukrainian music suffered mercilessly, and it is a pity that you did not study this issue, because it suffered not because of weakness, but because of its efforts and national strength. For example, Vasyl Oleksandrovych Barvinsky was arrested in early 1948. In the MDB, he was forced to sign a document: "I allow the destruction of my manuscripts." And the manuscripts were destroyed. Then there was a long exile for 10 years in Mordovian camps. After returning from exile (1958), he concentrated all his efforts on restoring from memory the works whose manuscripts were destroyed during his arrest (he worked on this until his death). And this is one of many stories. Unfortunately, they were overshadowed by the glory of Russian composers who were promoted by Russia on the world stage. However, is it possible to live in a limited world where there was no one except Tchaikovsky? I have Ideas, about what you can investigate. You can tell, why music of Myroslav Skoryk are so powerful? ruclips.net/video/77_M9s-ESxQ/видео.html ruclips.net/video/VzEgzOAronQ/видео.html ruclips.net/video/OW78Pg5jJHA/видео.html ruclips.net/video/baPF8zb-RaQ/видео.html ruclips.net/video/pxBwud5hz8s/видео.html Or, tell about Mykola Lysenko, and why so lyrical his overture to opera "Taras Bulba". Do you like his valts? ruclips.net/video/bv7gm3cf8Bw/видео.html ruclips.net/video/kkP56egOOPQ/видео.html Or, tell about Mykola Leontovych, great Ukrainian composer, killed by russian chekist. How he made a lot of iconic now melodies? ruclips.net/video/Pj4ZcVBevoo/видео.html ruclips.net/video/AdBZZ0pDrMw/видео.html ruclips.net/video/_yCOw-2Bkr4/видео.html ruclips.net/video/SYt6ILrsVn0/видео.html
It's nice seeing different people's art from those with synaesthesia. It would be great to play a few people the same song and ask them to create what they envisage from their listening, and how their interpretations are similar and different. I have synaesthesia and if I could justify the wasted canvasses, I'd like to paint the movementscapes I see when I listen to different songs.
I was privileged to experience the crossing of my senses once (for several hours) when I was 16 years old... could hear colors and see sound. 💙🌹🧡🌼💚 forever memorable.
This is great! I wonder if we could you deep learning neural networks to illustrate what does color sounds like? and what music looks like? If successful, the model would learn feelings in music and transfer the feeling to artworks. If successful, can feelings be learned through pattern recognization? Are feelings just patterns?
I happen to have synaesthesia and very often assign colours to letters, numbers, days of the week, months of the year, words and especially sounds but I have never seen a colour and heard a particular instrument which is truly fascinating. As a musician and composer, I often feel and see the colours of the music I am creating but never the other way around. I have never seen a painting or colour and instantly been struck by inspiration. When listening to my cello concerto, I see Movement 1 as black, movement 2 as red and movement 3 as blue, which is subject to the key signatures (G, Eb and B - In that order) and the colours of the letters but also the way the music is shaped and how it makes me feel. Truly an extraordinary phenomenon.
Very, very well done. I'd seen Kandinsky works many times, without paying much attention to them. Thanks to Will Gompertz's book ("What Are You Looking At?") on modern art, I was recently awakened to Kandinsky's full power and genius; and, as a music student (long ago) with what I believe is mild synethesia, I am particularly fascinated by that aspect of Kandinsky's creativity and thinking. This video is great, and I'm glad to be a new subscriber to your channel! Thank you!
Synesthesia must've seemed like the Holy Grail at that time. Conflating the goal and it's reward. You get synesthesia when all your beliefs line up. That takes a lot of work... Model Kandinsky! If that helps. B/c, no doubt, it is an individual thing... Materialism, and the phenomenological (our raw material) starts somewhere. Pace Anselm of Canterbury: "Say it. Fool." The rest rolls out.
At first glance, Kandinsky's compositions are just shapes on a canvas, but this is abstract, a representation of Kandinsky's soul. Thank you, your videos teach me a lot.
I'm so glad I found your work! I'm going through the process of learning music on my own and you have introduced me to some very profound artists and works! 🙏🏽💕
it’s all subjective and incredibly specific to him, BUT it means there is no right way of seeing sounds, which is very encouraging! Lovely video, thank you!
Just found your channel and I'm so glad I did. Great lecture, so very interesting and you have such a great voice for these kinds of presentations. I'm now going to explore your channel further. Great worrk, great research and a great pleasure to listen to. Thank you.
This has been on my recommended for a while and I'm glad I decided to watch. This was created in such an informative and inspired way that I couldn't resist subscribing and watching your other videos! Thank you for such wonderful content, truly made my day better.
My teacher and idol, Lingling, told me to watch this video. I don't know why, but the Liszt of composers should include less known composers instead of just Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, and Debussy. Although those names are recognizable, I'm sure other composers would like to be recognized in their decomposing state.
You helped me discover a new artist and a new form of viewing and experiencing art, you are clearly the best art RUclipsr I've seen and I really love your work.
As a professional cellist (mid-blue and madder red) I was totally inspired by this video. I’ve always felt a deep connection to Kandinsky’s work because of the colors and now I know why. It’s speaking the language that I know best. Many many thanks to you for this wonderful and enlightening video!
Thank you so much for your very kind comment - I'm glad you find it so inspiring. I've loved his paintings for as long as I can remember, and I didn't know about his intimate connection with music until I started doing my research. I was amazed reading his words and how he thought about relationship between colour, form and sound.
Yes this is accurated I have synesthesia too and I see the color when I Listen to music .I cant figure out How to project the color because when I hear a music theres A ton of Color that I cant explain , its like a scattered color that Dancing in front of my eye , its hard to tell what is red and what is Blue or something because its really Fast and so much ,
As a musician and composer myself I can't help to say that your channel is addictively interesting and the way you organise your research is just beautiful. I have been interested in Synesthesia for many years and done a lot or studies about it. Out of all the related stuff you can find online, this video is definitely one of the most comprensive and well done researches. I am glad that such a good exposure is also well appreciated by many people. I hope that your content will get more and more credit cause what you're doing is just fantastic! I can't wait to see more video essays and good luck with everything! Greetings from London!
Thank you so much Valerio! I'm really enjoying putting these essays together, but they do require a lot of time/effort, so it means a huge amount to receive kind comments like this. I'm also being inspired by what I'm finding out in my research, so I'm very glad you are too!
A brilliant and informative video on a lesser known aspect of Kandinsky's art. As someone who also has synesthesia myself,I have laerned to embrace it's effect on my life and on my work as an artist,I don't think of it as a condition,more of another compomant of my creativity,after I had a stroke the effects of it became more pronunced.I love looking at abstract art as I can also haer what I'm looking at and it makes viewing art a really unique experience.Kandinsky's paintings have a realy lyrical quality,a sense of his capuring the sounds of colour as he painted them.
Bravo! How absolutely fascinating. I just saw a piece on 60 minutes not too long ago featuring Itzhak Pearlman who said he sees colors when he hears music. This soooo helped me understand what the heck he was talking about. Thank you so much!
wow! havent used you tube before and wanted to find some art essays on Kandinsky. Thank you for this. i actually have Kandinsky's book, i bought it for some reason, but now am starting to actually understand his art.
English composer Sir Arthur Bliss wrote "A Color Symphony" -each movement in it represents a color.I think that the great French composer Olivier Messien had synesthesia as well.
I don't tend to write comments, but this video definitely deserves one. I clicked on the video being a bit skeptical about abstract art and its meaning, as I've observed abstract pieces before, I tend to associate colours with emotions but I never thought about linking them with music! I learned about art, history, music, composition, and theory in just a 10 minutes video! Your video essays are really amazing!
When we hear sounds, we often see colours and when we see colours, we often hear music. However, this is highly subjective and depending upon his/her psyche, emotions, mindset, each person experiences in his/her unique way. Generalisation is not possible.
Before watching this video I honestly thought there was little to no rhyme or reason to these kinds of abstract paintings. That it was just random colors thrown onto the canvas without any deeper meaning or representation behind it. Thanks for providing a very, very insightful look into this world of modern art. It definitely helped put a lot of this stuff into perspective.
It's completely my pleasure. You're right - it can often be very difficult to know how to interpret an abstract/modernist painting, especially if no context is given. Part of my motivation for making this essay was to try and work out what was going on in Kandinsky's paintings, so it was as much a discovery for me as it is for you. Thank you so much for watching.
Hello, truly interesting RUclips thank you very much.. But, I'm Wondering my friend _ And i hope you'll help me About if we can put a theory; Let say: What if there is a new child which he don't know about the (great music) then he became an artist Without all of those great music... What i want to say: Aren't he going to see in the colours his own music?! Truly interesting great work from you, thank you .. every time i will Whtach it, because it's about a great artest too.
Wonderful ! My work is so close to Kandinsky Synesthesia, but Kupka and Klee too (my 3K, I like to say). Why don't we see paintings on display during concerts to immerse the audience in the colors of the sound, the landscape of the music ? I just want to add "The next time you're looking at the landscape, just ask yourself, "What is the music like?"
So does every person with synesthesia hear the same thing with the same color? (objective) Or does it vary with the individual? (subjective). I couldn't find a concrete answer. From a music standpoint, you may ask what color is music? One way to determine this (so to speak) is to double the frequency of every pitch (octaves) until you reach the visual light spectrum. In doing so you'll find that the corresponding visual light frequency to every pitch is Red- with pitch variations being visually indistinguishable. Interesting subject.
Not sure I am buying everything Kandinsky says or hears but he is onto something rather personal. I am sure his Russian contemporary Scriabin would have a thing or two to say about color and music to Kandinsky. I see colors from keys but not vice versa. For me C is white, D is Red, E is yellow, F is green, G is blue, A is purple, and Bb is brown. The other five are less clear as are minor chords. PS, in the first painting the four figures are a chord or colors going towards a hand and to a piano. That's my theory and I 'm sticking to it. Anne Elk. PS, you've clearly hooked me. Good job. Subscribed.
DUUUUUUDE I was gonna say that first painting has to be either Stravinsky or Schoenberg! o.O It's funny; my synesthesia looks a bit different from anyone else's (everybody's seems to be unique, which is so cool!) but I can usually see what other synesthetes are getting at with their associations. They always seem to "match" for me which is so cool.
If I has a time machine and used it to visit Kandinsky, I would probably show him a bunch of paintings and ask "So what does this sound like? And what about this? And this?" He would probably get really annoyed with me.
There's two kinds of synesthesia, strong and weak. Weak synesthesia isn't a "condition" or an illness or anything like that. It's just a thing, a genetic quirk. Some people are ambidextrous, some people make a cloverleaf with their tongues; I can picture colors when I hear music. It's not any more of a big deal than that; it honestly doesn't affect my life at all and I barely notice it 99% of the time - only when I deliberately think about it. Strong synesthesia (where you actually see the colors or taste the tastes and so on) is a condition, because it can interfere with and disrupt people's lives and they can't tune it out. My grandma had this kind and it was very upsetting to her. But for me, my "weak" synesthesia is just a cool fun thing. Non-synesthetes always seem to think it's either a weird delusion or hallucination, or a magical superpower, when it reality it is neither (though I appreciate when people think it is cool). Nothing so dramatic - it's just a random cool thing that adds a little more depth and texture and interest to life, that's all. :) And fwiw I don't think it makes me any more creative than anyone else, though it is a fun challenge to try to paint what I see. :)
I like some Kandinsky work but abstract art doesn't mean or represent nothing. Now... you can put the whole theory that you want on it and still the same.... nothing but form and color.....
You trying to describe the "meaning" of all the colours in Kandinsky's paintings for what they could represent in the real world exactly contradicts Kandinsky's whole art philosophy and what the abstract art movement is about. Not saying your theories weren't interesting: But as the famous saying goes "If you analyze anything, you destroy it." And I think especially in art that's quintessential to keep in mind, or it will lose its magic. Great magicians and great artists are similar in that aspect, that they don't tell people how their tricks work because then the magic would be lost and it wouldn't work. They are really subtle about their influences and want people to find out and interpret it for themselves. Because if they would give their art an one-size-fits-all answer, and just tell on their whole artistical process, it would become deeply boring and lose its dimension. Kandinsky was also so innovative and avant-garde in part, because he was bored of the same stagnant culture loop ruling the art world at that time.
I visualize music. Note that composition 8 lacks the previously asserted relationships of specific colors & specific instruments. The rules are a great beginning, but that is all.
I'm sorry, but shouldn't you have to give credit at least to all the music you used? I'm not trying to be an ass but Sevish really deserves the shout-out, and many people may not know Steve Reich or other you've used.
A lot of ideas echo Adam Neely's videos on synesthesia and the meaning of music but I must say your presentation is preferable. Not to knock Adam, but this is just fantastic.
Thank you so much, again, Andy! I actually hadn't seen Adam's video. Just watched it - it's fantastic (as all his videos are). What videos have you got planned?
@@ListeningIn I think you typed Adam twice when you meant Andy the first time? Idk haha. I'm planning a big video on dissonance, and I am experimenting with equal tempered harmonics, basically the converse of just intonation. Production takes a while with my equipment and with going off to school and all.. but yea. Again wonderful stuff. Listening In episodes, to me and I think many others, are emotional in their own rite, in addition to conjouring up memories of the subject material. Looking forward to the next :)
Ah - so sorry! I was thinking of Adam N (+ also finishing off watching the synethesia video!). Really looking forward to your video on dissonance. Also watched your bread rap - I had no idea what I was watching but it was very funny. I'm really pleased you're enjoying the episodes. I try to make them as immersive as possible, so I'm pleased this is coming through! Next one currently being researched.
To be authentic all artists should study Shakespere and Classical song, its about allowing sensation to enter our vibrational body where a synthesis between consciousness a d rhythm can take place whist letting go of ego.....then genius happens.
This is probably one of the most underrated art channels on youtube!
Thank you Paul!!
who else is watching this for art class, thought it was gonna be boring and ended up liking
Me!!
Im actually watching it for music class
No
lol
I'm watching it because I'm a lifelong learner. The whole _world_ is my class.
I remember sitting on a bench in the Strasbourg museum of modern and contemporary arts. In front of me was the Salon de Musique designed by Kandinsky. At first, there was the color of the walls. One was made of anise tiles, another was deeply dark. Not much happened.
But then, after nearly a minute, the abstract figures started to produce sounds in my mind. Some squiggles turned into a violin section, parallel lines became busy percussions, and soon there was a whole symphony of timbre dialoguing before my eyes. The imagined volume of these sounds left me in a state of oceanic awe that carried me around the museum, open to every piece and profoundly enchanted.
Your video made me think again about this experience and realise that it was what Kandinsky intended. How inspiring. Thank you.
This was beautiful! Thank you for this :)
Amazing experience...thanks for sharing!
That's so cool!
Barnaby, watching this essay was an emotionally intense experience. I felt my heart racing when you illuminated the chords in the last geometric work. Tasteful pace, riveting content and impressive composition mate.
Thank you so much Finnian. I'm so glad you enjoyed the video. I actually planned the whole video out knowing I was going to do that illumination towards the end - I'm just glad I was able to do it when I arrived at that point!
I’m so so happy you’ve made this, it’s almost brought a tear to my eye. I remember a friend of mine years ago told me about Kandinsky when I told her I saw patterns when I hear sounds. I immediately looked up his work and I could not BELIEVE my eyes, he painted EXACTLY what I saw. I was heavily convinced he saw music the same way I do, this video really drove it home. Thank you.
He’s vital to anyone with synesthesia. I can’t really put down laws, but instead let the music do the colors, shapes, textures, etc
Words cannot describe how vastly underrated this channel is
180.000 views are reasonably decent for this type of content, I would say
I have synasthesia. Took me 29 years to realize it was a thing. And yes I am an art student. Coincidence?
That's a Human condition xD it's normal haha
how does it works? you hear music when you see a color? or vice versa?
Le seconde grigio nebbia con screziature di rosso. Le quarte blu indaco come il mare.
I taste sounds. I was also pretty old before I realised it wasn’t normal. 🤦🏻♂️
I had experienced Synesthesia with Beethoven's music; a plethora of vivid floral ribbons of different colors. Perception is multidimentional including and transcending our senses !
This is the only good video about Kandinsky on the internet. Thoughtful, creative, and without the misinformation that routinely circulates about him. Bravo many times over and many thanks.
Wow, thank you!
What’s the misinformation about him?
@@owenroche5247 yes I’m very curious
@@pinkajou656 yeah
Such a well made video, extremely fascinating. I'm absolutely shocked at the size of your channel. I really hope the hard work pays off for you eventually!
Thank you! I hope the hard work pays off as well!!
Synesthesia is a fascinating phenomenon, and I'm so happy that someone like you has now talked about it! Beautiful work once again.
You're right - it is incredibly fascinating. Thank you for watching - really glad you enjoyed the video!
There are also some blind people who can distinguish color from their finertips.
@@ikmarchini really?
How amazingly meta to have a video on art in which not only the subject of the video is beautiful, but also the video in and of itself. Like the art of Kandinsky, your videos are creatively inspired, masterfully arranged, and, most importantly, emotionally poignant. Thank you Listening In for your hard work!
His synesthesia is an interesting facet of Kandinsky that helps explain his works but each person's color-sounds would be different, and the artist would likely say the same.
Subjectivity is what sort of draws the line here. How can we ever figure out the true relationship between sounds and colours if every experience of that relationship is subjectively different?
Beautiful video, loved the sound editing in this one. You also explained Kandinsky in a way that is understandable and relatable to people who might not be well-versed in the aesthetic theories behind it all. Content like this is truly valuable.
One of the most exciting 10 minutes on RUclips.... And I enjoyed the "Im Abendrot" passage. Thank you.
As a musician and budding artist, I found this fascinating. Without having synesthesia, it's hard to understand exactly what Kandinsky experienced. Synesthesia could be considered a seventh or eighth sense, one that not everyone has. Thank you for this video!
Well done! I didn't know what I have is called synesthesia until recently. I just thought it was a special gift (still do). Pretty cool that Kandinsky had it too! Thanks for this informative video.
This was beautiful, man. Thanks.
My pleasure!
This is so brilliant. Are you planning a series on other artists? Even if there's no obvious musical connection, your research and production will surely make this a worthy topic. I'm glad to see subscriber numbers rising.
Bravo! Thank you for posting this. It struck many chords within me, and left me breathless at various points. You've put together an excellent summary that gives me a much broader appreciation of his work.. much more than I ever could have imagined. Loved this one❣
uh so is gabriele munter's influence to Kandinsky ignored again here
You have some videos about russian chauvinist artists and their works (used for long time for propaganda and legalize of russian aggression), but no one word about Ukrainian composites, or about their works. No one video about Schedryk or "Cossak Rode beyond the Danube". That's sad. And l understand, why it's happen.
For centuries, Russia has been promoting the cult of the greatness of Russian culture, while at the same time using the heritage of foreign cultures (Tchaikovsky stole Ukrainian melodies, and Bortnyansky, Berezovsky and Vedel have been were Ukrainian composers, but Russia distorts their image).
Ukrainian music suffered mercilessly, and it is a pity that you did not study this issue, because it suffered not because of weakness, but because of its efforts and national strength.
For example, Vasyl Oleksandrovych Barvinsky was arrested in early 1948. In the MDB, he was forced to sign a document: "I allow the destruction of my manuscripts." And the manuscripts were destroyed. Then there was a long exile for 10 years in Mordovian camps.
After returning from exile (1958), he concentrated all his efforts on restoring from memory the works whose manuscripts were destroyed during his arrest (he worked on this until his death).
And this is one of many stories. Unfortunately, they were overshadowed by the glory of Russian composers who were promoted by Russia on the world stage. However, is it possible to live in a limited world where there was no one except Tchaikovsky?
I have Ideas, about what you can investigate.
You can tell, why music of Myroslav Skoryk are so powerful?
ruclips.net/video/77_M9s-ESxQ/видео.html
ruclips.net/video/VzEgzOAronQ/видео.html
ruclips.net/video/OW78Pg5jJHA/видео.html
ruclips.net/video/baPF8zb-RaQ/видео.html
ruclips.net/video/pxBwud5hz8s/видео.html
Or, tell about Mykola Lysenko, and why so lyrical his overture to opera "Taras Bulba". Do you like his valts?
ruclips.net/video/bv7gm3cf8Bw/видео.html
ruclips.net/video/kkP56egOOPQ/видео.html
Or, tell about Mykola Leontovych, great Ukrainian composer, killed by russian chekist. How he made a lot of iconic now melodies?
ruclips.net/video/Pj4ZcVBevoo/видео.html
ruclips.net/video/AdBZZ0pDrMw/видео.html
ruclips.net/video/_yCOw-2Bkr4/видео.html
ruclips.net/video/SYt6ILrsVn0/видео.html
It's nice seeing different people's art from those with synaesthesia.
It would be great to play a few people the same song and ask them to create what they envisage from their listening, and how their interpretations are similar and different.
I have synaesthesia and if I could justify the wasted canvasses, I'd like to paint the movementscapes I see when I listen to different songs.
Love it ...yes, more of Kandinsky music art.
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I was privileged to experience the crossing of my senses once (for several hours) when I was 16 years old... could hear colors and see sound. 💙🌹🧡🌼💚 forever memorable.
This is great! I wonder if we could you deep learning neural networks to illustrate what does color sounds like? and what music looks like? If successful, the model would learn feelings in music and transfer the feeling to artworks. If successful, can feelings be learned through pattern recognization? Are feelings just patterns?
Anyone know the pieces playing when he is describing the sounds the white, black, red, and darkest blue make?
I happen to have synaesthesia and very often assign colours to letters, numbers, days of the week, months of the year, words and especially sounds but I have never seen a colour and heard a particular instrument which is truly fascinating. As a musician and composer, I often feel and see the colours of the music I am creating but never the other way around. I have never seen a painting or colour and instantly been struck by inspiration. When listening to my cello concerto, I see Movement 1 as black, movement 2 as red and movement 3 as blue, which is subject to the key signatures (G, Eb and B - In that order) and the colours of the letters but also the way the music is shaped and how it makes me feel. Truly an extraordinary phenomenon.
i got literal goosebumps from this! beautiful video, excellently made! 🧡
Very, very well done. I'd seen Kandinsky works many times, without paying much attention to them. Thanks to Will Gompertz's book ("What Are You Looking At?") on modern art, I was recently awakened to Kandinsky's full power and genius; and, as a music student (long ago) with what I believe is mild synethesia, I am particularly fascinated by that aspect of Kandinsky's creativity and thinking. This video is great, and I'm glad to be a new subscriber to your channel! Thank you!
this video is a piece of art in itself
Thank you Dom!
Synesthesia must've seemed like the Holy Grail at that time. Conflating the goal and it's reward.
You get synesthesia when all your beliefs line up.
That takes a lot of work... Model Kandinsky! If that helps.
B/c, no doubt, it is an individual thing... Materialism, and the phenomenological (our raw material) starts somewhere. Pace Anselm of Canterbury: "Say it. Fool."
The rest rolls out.
What's the name of the background music you used--especially at the end during the discussion of Composition VIII (I think)? Perfect!
That's a section from 'Recomposed by Max Richter: Vivaldi - The Four Seasons'. Glad you liked it!
Such a great video, thank you so much, I`m glad i found it))) What`s the music on 07:30?
At first glance, Kandinsky's compositions are just shapes on a canvas, but this is abstract, a representation of Kandinsky's soul. Thank you, your videos teach me a lot.
Could you tell me the name of the song playing toward the end of the video? It's stunning.
I'm so glad I found your work! I'm going through the process of learning music on my own and you have introduced me to some very profound artists and works! 🙏🏽💕
Thank you for this. I look forward to more of your insightful videos!
Thank you for presenting ideas that children learned in the 1950's schools that included learning fine art.
it’s all subjective and incredibly specific to him, BUT it means there is no right way of seeing sounds, which is very encouraging! Lovely video, thank you!
Unlike perfect pitch, i don’t think synesthesia is uniform
Just found your channel and I'm so glad I did. Great lecture, so very interesting and you have such a great voice for these kinds of presentations. I'm now going to explore your channel further. Great worrk, great research and a great pleasure to listen to. Thank you.
This has been on my recommended for a while and I'm glad I decided to watch. This was created in such an informative and inspired way that I couldn't resist subscribing and watching your other videos! Thank you for such wonderful content, truly made my day better.
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Wow...I really like that final thought about art and the spiritual pyramid reaching into heaven.
So good
Beautiful video, thank you very much. I'm a musician and always thought each note had a color.. seing this makes all sense.
Thank you!
My teacher and idol, Lingling, told me to watch this video. I don't know why, but the Liszt of composers should include less known composers instead of just Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, and Debussy. Although those names are recognizable, I'm sure other composers would like to be recognized in their decomposing state.
You helped me discover a new artist and a new form of viewing and experiencing art, you are clearly the best art RUclipsr I've seen and I really love your work.
Thank you so much Leonardo! I'm so glad you enjoyed the video!
As a professional cellist (mid-blue and madder red) I was totally inspired by this video. I’ve always felt a deep connection to Kandinsky’s work because of the colors and now I know why. It’s speaking the language that I know best. Many many thanks to you for this wonderful and enlightening video!
Thank you so much for your very kind comment - I'm glad you find it so inspiring. I've loved his paintings for as long as I can remember, and I didn't know about his intimate connection with music until I started doing my research. I was amazed reading his words and how he thought about relationship between colour, form and sound.
Yes this is accurated I have synesthesia too and I see the color when I Listen to music .I cant figure out How to project the color because when I hear a music theres A ton of Color that I cant explain , its like a scattered color that Dancing in front of my eye , its hard to tell what is red and what is Blue or something because its really Fast and so much ,
i have synesthesia and yes, i find this extremely accurate and beautiful
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Beautifully put together, outstanding, thank you.
As a musician and composer myself I can't help to say that your channel is addictively interesting and the way you organise your research is just beautiful. I have been interested in Synesthesia for many years and done a lot or studies about it. Out of all the related stuff you can find online, this video is definitely one of the most comprensive and well done researches. I am glad that such a good exposure is also well appreciated by many people.
I hope that your content will get more and more credit cause what you're doing is just fantastic!
I can't wait to see more video essays and good luck with everything! Greetings from London!
Thank you so much Valerio! I'm really enjoying putting these essays together, but they do require a lot of time/effort, so it means a huge amount to receive kind comments like this. I'm also being inspired by what I'm finding out in my research, so I'm very glad you are too!
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Thank you for sharing this wonderful video about the relationship between colors and sounds!
This channel is way too good!!!!!!!
Thank you Eugenia!
A brilliant and informative video on a lesser known aspect of Kandinsky's art. As someone who also has synesthesia myself,I have laerned to embrace it's effect on my life and on my work as an artist,I don't think of it as a condition,more of another compomant of my creativity,after I had a stroke the effects of it became more pronunced.I love looking at abstract art as I can also haer what I'm looking at and it makes viewing art a really unique experience.Kandinsky's paintings have a realy lyrical quality,a sense of his capuring the sounds of colour as he painted them.
Beautiful. Just beautiful. Kandinsky is my new favorite artist and your channel is my new favorite as well.
Thank you so much! I’m very glad you’ve found my channel!
Bravo! How absolutely fascinating. I just saw a piece on 60 minutes not too long ago featuring Itzhak Pearlman who said he sees colors when he hears music. This soooo helped me understand what the heck he was talking about. Thank you so much!
That WAS AMAZING!!!! Thank you! I am an art history instructor, and that ROCKED!!
Thank you so much Christy! This comment has made my day!
Excellent review and presentation of Kandinsky’s synesthesic work. Thank you!
My pleasure! Thank you for watching.
wow! havent used you tube before and wanted to find some art essays on Kandinsky. Thank you for this. i actually have Kandinsky's book, i bought it for some reason, but now am starting to actually understand his art.
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English composer Sir Arthur Bliss wrote "A Color Symphony" -each movement in it represents a color.I think that the great French composer Olivier Messien had synesthesia as well.
I don't tend to write comments, but this video definitely deserves one. I clicked on the video being a bit skeptical about abstract art and its meaning, as I've observed abstract pieces before, I tend to associate colours with emotions but I never thought about linking them with music! I learned about art, history, music, composition, and theory in just a 10 minutes video! Your video essays are really amazing!
from what I have read, Kandinsky apparently just wished he was a synesthete, so he just though like one, which is still really impressive
I sure do listen to my art a lot differently after watching this, great little video!
When we hear sounds, we often see colours and when we see colours, we often hear music. However, this is highly subjective and depending upon his/her psyche, emotions, mindset, each person experiences in his/her unique way. Generalisation is not possible.
Loved Kandinsky's "Concerning the Spiritual in Art" and other writings.
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Brilliant music choices. Not being synesthetic I don't follow you. Though I love Kandinskii's paintings.
great essay really enjoyed it.
love to see more.
That was powerful and perfectly synesthetically illustrated!
omg cool so grear
I study philosophy and I believe that Kandinsky was very influenced by Hegel's Lectures on Aesthetics
Before watching this video I honestly thought there was little to no rhyme or reason to these kinds of abstract paintings. That it was just random colors thrown onto the canvas without any deeper meaning or representation behind it. Thanks for providing a very, very insightful look into this world of modern art. It definitely helped put a lot of this stuff into perspective.
It's completely my pleasure. You're right - it can often be very difficult to know how to interpret an abstract/modernist painting, especially if no context is given. Part of my motivation for making this essay was to try and work out what was going on in Kandinsky's paintings, so it was as much a discovery for me as it is for you. Thank you so much for watching.
Hello, truly interesting RUclips thank you very much.. But, I'm Wondering my friend _ And i hope you'll help me About if we can put a theory; Let say: What if there is a new child which he don't know about the (great music) then he became an artist Without all of those great music... What i want to say: Aren't he going to see in the colours his own music?!
Truly interesting great work from you, thank you .. every time i will Whtach it, because it's about a great artest too.
Wonderful ! My work is so close to Kandinsky Synesthesia, but Kupka and Klee too (my 3K, I like to say). Why don't we see paintings on display during concerts to immerse the audience in the colors of the sound, the landscape of the music ?
I just want to add "The next time you're looking at the landscape, just ask yourself, "What is the music like?"
So does every person with synesthesia hear the same thing with the same color? (objective) Or does it vary with the individual? (subjective). I couldn't find a concrete answer. From a music standpoint, you may ask what color is music? One way to determine this (so to speak) is to double the frequency of every pitch (octaves) until you reach the visual light spectrum. In doing so you'll find that the corresponding visual light frequency to every pitch is Red- with pitch variations being visually indistinguishable. Interesting subject.
Not sure I am buying everything Kandinsky says or hears but he is onto something rather personal. I am sure his Russian contemporary Scriabin would have a thing or two to say about color and music to Kandinsky. I see colors from keys but not vice versa. For me C is white, D is Red, E is yellow, F is green, G is blue, A is purple, and Bb is brown. The other five are less clear as are minor chords. PS, in the first painting the four figures are a chord or colors going towards a hand and to a piano. That's my theory and I 'm sticking to it. Anne Elk. PS, you've clearly hooked me. Good job. Subscribed.
I still rewatch this regularly, thank you
Woww! this is the kind of content I needed. Phenomenal work Mr. Martin
Thank you so much Robert! It’s my pleasure to send it out into the world!
Love this explanation of Kandinsky's art!
DUUUUUUDE I was gonna say that first painting has to be either Stravinsky or Schoenberg! o.O It's funny; my synesthesia looks a bit different from anyone else's (everybody's seems to be unique, which is so cool!) but I can usually see what other synesthetes are getting at with their associations. They always seem to "match" for me which is so cool.
If I has a time machine and used it to visit Kandinsky, I would probably show him a bunch of paintings and ask "So what does this sound like? And what about this? And this?" He would probably get really annoyed with me.
There's two kinds of synesthesia, strong and weak. Weak synesthesia isn't a "condition" or an illness or anything like that. It's just a thing, a genetic quirk. Some people are ambidextrous, some people make a cloverleaf with their tongues; I can picture colors when I hear music. It's not any more of a big deal than that; it honestly doesn't affect my life at all and I barely notice it 99% of the time - only when I deliberately think about it. Strong synesthesia (where you actually see the colors or taste the tastes and so on) is a condition, because it can interfere with and disrupt people's lives and they can't tune it out. My grandma had this kind and it was very upsetting to her. But for me, my "weak" synesthesia is just a cool fun thing. Non-synesthetes always seem to think it's either a weird delusion or hallucination, or a magical superpower, when it reality it is neither (though I appreciate when people think it is cool). Nothing so dramatic - it's just a random cool thing that adds a little more depth and texture and interest to life, that's all. :) And fwiw I don't think it makes me any more creative than anyone else, though it is a fun challenge to try to paint what I see. :)
Your stuff gives me the same vibe as the ‘Nerdwritter’ and ‘Great Art Explained’
I like some Kandinsky work but abstract art doesn't mean or represent nothing.
Now... you can put the whole theory that you want on it and still the same.... nothing but form and color.....
You trying to describe the "meaning" of all the colours in Kandinsky's paintings for what they could represent in the real world exactly contradicts Kandinsky's whole art philosophy and what the abstract art movement is about. Not saying your theories weren't interesting: But as the famous saying goes "If you analyze anything, you destroy it." And I think especially in art that's quintessential to keep in mind, or it will lose its magic. Great magicians and great artists are similar in that aspect, that they don't tell people how their tricks work because then the magic would be lost and it wouldn't work. They are really subtle about their influences and want people to find out and interpret it for themselves. Because if they would give their art an one-size-fits-all answer, and just tell on their whole artistical process, it would become deeply boring and lose its dimension. Kandinsky was also so innovative and avant-garde in part, because he was bored of the same stagnant culture loop ruling the art world at that time.
I Love this! i used this video for my work of Wassily Kandinsky at Visual Education, or something like that(im not english)
This was reat. It's where I'm living now. "See the music, Hear the colours, Feel the space."
I visualize music. Note that composition 8 lacks the previously asserted relationships of specific colors & specific instruments. The rules are a great beginning, but that is all.
“ I see Miles Davis as to the truth of Abstract Music in The Art of Kadinski “.
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I don't understand why you don't add a small section with timestamps and the name of the music pieces used in the video.
I'm sorry, but shouldn't you have to give credit at least to all the music you used? I'm not trying to be an ass but Sevish really deserves the shout-out, and many people may not know Steve Reich or other you've used.
A lot of ideas echo Adam Neely's videos on synesthesia and the meaning of music but I must say your presentation is preferable. Not to knock Adam, but this is just fantastic.
Thank you so much, again, Andy! I actually hadn't seen Adam's video. Just watched it - it's fantastic (as all his videos are). What videos have you got planned?
@@ListeningIn I think you typed Adam twice when you meant Andy the first time? Idk haha.
I'm planning a big video on dissonance, and I am experimenting with equal tempered harmonics, basically the converse of just intonation. Production takes a while with my equipment and with going off to school and all.. but yea.
Again wonderful stuff. Listening In episodes, to me and I think many others, are emotional in their own rite, in addition to conjouring up memories of the subject material. Looking forward to the next :)
Ah - so sorry! I was thinking of Adam N (+ also finishing off watching the synethesia video!). Really looking forward to your video on dissonance. Also watched your bread rap - I had no idea what I was watching but it was very funny.
I'm really pleased you're enjoying the episodes. I try to make them as immersive as possible, so I'm pleased this is coming through! Next one currently being researched.
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I just discovered your channel and everything is so interesting!
Thank you - I'm very pleased you've discovered me!
This is one of my favourite channels ever. Thank you for your work
To be authentic all artists should study Shakespere and Classical song, its about allowing sensation to enter our vibrational body where a synthesis between consciousness a d rhythm can take place whist letting go of ego.....then genius happens.
Wonderful video. Facinating. Thank you.
Strangely this concept of colours representing music helps me understand Pollock a bit more.
thanks for this informative and entertaining video. i wonder what he might have thought about algorithmic composition music.