cat-wings:

leonacortez:

Melissa McCracken, a painter with synesthesia, explains what it’s like to see your favorite songs. [x]

“Karma Police” — Radiohead 

“Little Wing” — Jimi Hendrix 

“Gravity” — John Mayer 

“Imagine” — John Lennon 

“Joy in Repetition” — Prince 

“Since I’ve Been Loving You” — Led Zeppelin 

“Life On Mars?” — David Bowie 

“Tonight, Tonight” — The Smashing Pumpkins 

i migght be overly caffeinated but i cried looking at these

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#music #art #synesthesia #(I’m not familiar with most of these songs (at least not by name)) #(so I don’t know enough for these depictions to feel wrong to me) #(and thus engage in the traditional synesthete pastime of lightheartedly arguing about what a song looks like) #((except I’m pretty sure ”Imagine” does not glow like that)) #((*choirs* glow)) #((it’s been a while since I heard it and TBH I don’t really want to hear it again)) #((but I think it was mostly dark greyish-green?)) #(((P.S. my apologies to near-future!me for making you deal with this post))) #(((I know images are a pain to convince WordPress to mirror especially when they’re part of a reblog chain))) #(((but this is neat enough that I think we should reblog it anyway))) #tag rambles