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There is a great deal of debate about whether or not synesthesia can be identified through historical sources. Sean A. Day, a synesthete, and the President of the American Synesthesia Association, maintains a list of synesthetes, "pseudosynesthetes" and individuals who are most likely not synesthetic, but who used synesthesia in their art or music.
- Rollo Armstrong, producer/mixer (member of Faithless). Music → color.
"He gets on with the broad strokes, textures and colors — that’s how he hears music, he’s got that synesthesia (a phenomenon where sounds have color), he says ‘make it really sad, like a rainy day, I want to hear thunder’ — and I get on with all the anal fiddly bits."
— Sister Bliss talking about her working relationship with Rollo Armstrong
Pseudo-synesthetes
- Alexander Scriabin (6 January 1872 – 27 April 1915) probably was not a synesthete, but, rather, was highly influenced by the French and Russian salon fashions. Most noticeably, Scriabin seems to have been strongly influenced by the writings and talks of the Russian mystic, Helena P. Blavatsky, founder of the Theosophical Society and author of such works as Isis Unveiled and The Secret Doctrine. The synesthetic motifs found in Scriabin's compositions – most noticeably in Prometheus, composed in 1911 – are developed off of ideas from Isaac Newton, and follow a circle of fifths.
Others proposed which are still under review:
- Frank Lloyd Wright (June 8, 1867 – April 9, 1959) , architect, claimed to hear music sometimes while designing buildings.
- Wassily Kandinsky (December 16, 1866 – December 13, 1944), painter
- Victor Hugo (26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885), writer
- Anthony Powell (December 21, 1905 - March 28, 2000), writer
- Richard D. James aka Aphex Twin (born August 18, 1971), Cornish electronic music artist. Musical sounds and words → color.
- Davey Havok (born November 20, 1975), musician
- Steve Aylett (born 1967), writer
- Hélène Grimaud (born November 7, 1969), musician
- Syd Barrett (January 6, 1946 - July 7, 2006), composer. Multiple synesthesiae.
References
- Dann, Kevin T. 1998. Bright Colors Falsely Seen: Synaesthesia and the Search for Transcendental Knowledge. New Haven and London: Yale University Press.
- Dann, Kevin T. 1998. Bright Colors Falsely Seen: Synaesthesia and the Search for Transcendental Knowledge. New Haven and London: Yale University Press.
- B. M. Galeyev and I. L. Vanechkina (August 2001). "Was Scriabin a Synesthete?". Leonardo; Vol. 34, Issue 4, pp. 357 - 362.
- Scriabin, Alexander. 1995(1911). "Poem of Ecstasy" and "Prometheus: Poem of Fire". New York: Dover.