Yet, the Third Ancestor said, “The six senses are not evil. Even more, they are the same as true awakening.” If we chase after sound and color, or if we hide from sound and color, we miss the ...

For Russian painter and pioneer of abstract art Wassily Kandinsky, music and color were inseparable. It’s possible that the artist had synesthesia, a condition in which sensory modalities are ...

But in some cases it goes even further. Individual notes have strong connections to color for some musicians. 20th century composer Alexander Scriabin created a “color organ” based on his experience ...

What does race sound like? A new history and literature seminar taught by lecturer Lucy Caplan, “Sound and Color: Music, Race, and US Cultural Politics,” aims to answer that question as it explores ...