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In Mike Nesmith's "Rio" he sings
I'm hearing the light from the window,
I'm seeing the sound of the sea
This could be called synaesthesia, which, according to Wikipedia is
"a neurological condition in which two or more bodily senses are coupled. In one common form of synesthesia, known as grapheme → color synesthesia, letters or numbers are perceived as inherently colored, while in ordinal linguistic personification, numbers, days of the week and months of the year evoke personalities. In spatial-sequence, or number form synesthesia, numbers, months of the year, and/or days of the week elicit precise locations in space (for example, 1980 may be "farther away" than 1990), or may have a three-dimensional view of a year as a map (clockwise or counterclockwise)."
Some folks are born with it, some experience it while on psychedelic drugs.
I don't claim to be either one, however I will say that the voice of David Grey always makes me smell ground beef cooking.
Some say he sounds like Mark Mulcahy. I say no.
1 comment:
It's possible that is synesthesia (albeit a rare form in which sound is induced by vision, and vision is elicited by sound) or it could be this is simply a matter of David Grey being metaphorical. This type of device is also a commonly used literary trope, and researchers who investigate this go go great lengths to distinguish between the two.
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