Associations between Color and Music are Mediated by Emotion and Influenced by Tempo

Tsang, Tawney; Schloss, Karen B.

doi:10.1037/e525772013-006

Cited by 18 publications

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“…They concluded that music to color associations are mediated by common emotional associations. This is supported by Tsang and Schloss (2010 ), who found consistent correlations between emotional ratings for musical selections and emotional ratings for colors. However, in their report there was no direct work on the contribution of key, and there were only 10 participants.…”

Section: Relationships Among Music Emotion and Colorsupporting

confidence: 67%

Musical Key Perception in Relation to Color

Firth¹

2014

Psychol Rep

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A link between musical keys and colors is common among musicians, although there has never been any agreement about which color matches which key. This study tested two alternative key-color associations: E is red and Eb is green, or vice versa. 21 participants (10 men, 11 women; M age = 20 yr., SD = 3.3) with absolute pitch listened to melodies beginning with an anacrusis and a perfect cadence which were played through in C major. Then the melodies began in another key, while four or two colored squares were displayed (in Experiments 1 and 2, respectively). Participants were asked to chose the color which best matched the quality of the new key. The results showed strong support for the E red / Eb green linkage.

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Section: Relationships Among Music Emotion and Colorsupporting

confidence: 67%

Musical Key Perception in Relation to Color

Firth¹

2014

Psychol Rep

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“…More recent researches focus on the shared emotions that they evoke. Tsang and Schloss discovered a consistent correlation between emotional ratings for music and the emotional ratings for colors [7]. Bresin found that people choose different color to classify the same piece of music when the instruments in the music or the interpretations of the musician's emotion are different [8].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Visimu

Wang¹,

Chen²

2013

Proceedings of the Adjunct Publication of the 26th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology - UIST '13 Ad

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Based on previous studies of the associations between color and music, we introduce a scalable way of using colors to label songs and a visualization of music archives that facilitates music exploration. We present Visimu, an online game that attracted users to generate 926 color labels for 102 songs, with over 75% of the songs having color labels reaching high consensus in the Lab color space. We implemented a music archive visualization using the color labels generated by Visimu, and conducted an experiment to show that labeling music by color is more effective than text tags when the user is looking for songs of a particular mood or use scenario. Our results showed that Visimu is effective to produce meaningful color labels for music mood classification, and such approach enables a wide range of applications for music visualization and discovery. ACM Classification: H5.3 [Information interfaces and presentation]: Group and Organization Interfaces. -Collaborative computing.

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“…It is a common phenomenon that synesthesia is human sensory perceptions [3]. Synesthesia is figuratively described as the ability that people "hear" colors and "see" the music [4]. Synesthesia phenomenon has a huge effect on sense and psychology, and provides a theoretical basis in the aspect of psychology to the development of color music, music visualization technology.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%