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Non-verbal Mapping Between Sound and Color-Mapping Derived from Colored Hearing Synesthetes and Its Applications

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Entertainment Computing - ICEC 2005 (ICEC 2005)

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This paper presents an attempt at ‘non-verbal mapping’ between music and images. We use physical parameters of key, height and timbre as sound, and hue, brightness and chroma as color, to clarify their direct correspondence. First we derive a mapping rule between sound and color from those with such special abilities as ‘colored hearing’. Next we apply the mapping to everyday people using a paired comparison test and key identification training, and we find similar phenomena to colored hearing among everyday people. The experimental result shows a possibility that they also have potential of ability of sound and color mapping.

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  1. School of Science and Technology, Kwansei Gakuin University, 2-1, Gakuen, Sanda, Hyogo, 669-1323, Japan

    Noriko Nagata

  2. Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, 1-3, Machikaneyama, Toyonaka, Osaka, 560-8531, Japan

    Daisuke Iwai

  3. Faculty of Human and Social Environment, Doshisha Women’s College of Liberal Arts, Kodo, Kyoutanabe, Kyoto, 610-0395, Japan

    Sanae H. Wake

  4. Faculty of Media Contents, Takarazuka University of Art and Design, 7-27, Hanayashiki-tsutsujigaoka, Takarazuka, 665-0803, Japan

    Seiji Inokuchi

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  1. Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Osaka University, 2-1 Yamada-oka, Suita, 565-0871, Osaka, Japan

    Fumio Kishino  & Yoshifumi Kitamura  & 

  2. Department of Systems Innovation, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, 1-3, Machikaneyama, Toyonaka, 560-8531, Osaka, Japan

    Hirokazu Kato

  3. School of Science and Technology, Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan

    Noriko Nagata

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Nagata, N., Iwai, D., Wake, S.H., Inokuchi, S. (2005). Non-verbal Mapping Between Sound and Color-Mapping Derived from Colored Hearing Synesthetes and Its Applications. In: Kishino, F., Kitamura, Y., Kato, H., Nagata, N. (eds) Entertainment Computing - ICEC 2005. ICEC 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3711. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11558651_39

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  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/11558651_39

  • Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

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