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Title: Color associations of music genres
Post by: Pink Jazz on August 14, 2014, 04:04:55 PM
This may seem like a strange concept, however, I was wondering, if you can associate different music genres with different colors, what would they be?

Here are mine:


What would your color associations be?
Title: Re: Color associations of music genres
Post by: hbelkins on August 14, 2014, 04:07:46 PM
Hip-hop and rap: Black.
Country and heavy metal: White.

:bigass:
Title: Re: Color associations of music genres
Post by: Duke87 on August 14, 2014, 04:37:48 PM
I make no such associations.

This sounds like something someone who has synesthesia would experience.

 

Title: Re: Color associations of music genres
Post by: Pink Jazz on August 14, 2014, 04:44:06 PM
Quote from: Duke87 on August 14, 2014, 04:37:48 PM
I make no such associations.

This sounds like something someone who has synesthesia would experience.



Well, if you ran a music store, it makes things easier to find by organizing each genre with a color.  I have seen some libraries that color code books by genre.
Title: Re: Color associations of music genres
Post by: Pete from Boston on August 14, 2014, 04:51:59 PM
Not really, though I know there are folks that can tell you what colors music is.  However, Tuesdays will always be yellow, and Mondays a dark but unsaturated blue.

Route 28 is green, but Route 38 is pink.
Title: Re: Color associations of music genres
Post by: Pink Jazz on August 14, 2014, 04:55:53 PM
Quote from: Pete from Boston on August 14, 2014, 04:51:59 PM
Not really, though I know there are folks that can tell you what colors music is.  However, Tuesdays will always be yellow, and Mondays a dark but unsaturated blue.

Route 28 is green, but Route 38 is pink.

Of course, for months of the year, each month can be represented by a color for the dominant holiday, i.e. Pink for February (Valentine's Day), Green for March (St. Patrick's Day), Orange for October (Halloween), or Red for December (Christmas).  However, Pink is overtaking Orange for October due to it being Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

FYI, speaking of route numbers, ADOT once tried color coding the Phoenix area loops.  Loop 101 was blue, Loop 202 was brown, and Loop 303 was black.  ADOT did away with this due to sign fading, in particular the brown Loop 202 shields were especially prone to fading.
Title: Re: Color associations of music genres
Post by: Pete from Boston on August 14, 2014, 05:39:23 PM

Quote from: Pink Jazz on August 14, 2014, 04:55:53 PM
Quote from: Pete from Boston on August 14, 2014, 04:51:59 PM
Not really, though I know there are folks that can tell you what colors music is.  However, Tuesdays will always be yellow, and Mondays a dark but unsaturated blue.

Route 28 is green, but Route 38 is pink.

Of course, for months of the year, each month can be represented by a color for the dominant holiday, i.e. Pink for February (Valentine's Day), Green for March (St. Patrick's Day), Orange for October (Halloween), or Red for December (Christmas).  However, Pink is overtaking Orange for October due to it being Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

February's brown, March blue, October a dark red on the orange side, and December green. 
Title: Re: Color associations of music genres
Post by: Alps on August 14, 2014, 07:36:01 PM
My main color associations are from early childhood map puzzles to states. Michigan is red, Connecticut is yellow, Kansas is pink, California is yellow, Nebraska is orange, etc. I don't remember all of them, but that's a lot more than I remember of most things around that time.
Title: Re: Color associations of music genres
Post by: hbelkins on August 14, 2014, 10:05:37 PM
If I'm associating anything with colors, it's usually states with the sports teams of their primary school. Kentucky = blue. North Carolina = baby blue. Tennessee = vile orange. Florida = a different vile shade of orange. Ohio = red. And so on.
Title: Re: Color associations of music genres
Post by: Alps on August 16, 2014, 12:42:27 AM
Quote from: hbelkins on August 14, 2014, 10:05:37 PM
If I'm associating anything with colors, it's usually states with the sports teams of their primary school. Kentucky = blue. North Carolina = baby blue. Tennessee = vile orange. Florida = a different vile shade of orange. Ohio = red. And so on.
Kentucky is pink. NC is red. TN is yellow. FL is orange. OH... that one I forget.
Title: Re: Color associations of music genres
Post by: kurumi on August 16, 2014, 02:15:00 AM
My strange synesthesia: the NFC (and NL) are odd (like north-south numbering); the AFC and AL are even. No idea where that came from.
Title: Re: Color associations of music genres
Post by: US81 on August 16, 2014, 07:13:25 AM
I understand many synesthetes tend to associate color and music by pitch and key. D major is a bright sunny yellow, G major a light orange, E-flat major = grass green, etc. 
Title: Re: Color associations of music genres
Post by: Alps on August 16, 2014, 12:10:29 PM
Quote from: kurumi on August 16, 2014, 02:15:00 AM
My strange synesthesia: the NFC (and NL) are odd (like north-south numbering); the AFC and AL are even. No idea where that came from.
Yeah I don't know either, cause you're WRONG. AFC and AL are way better, so they're odd. (Also prefer AHL and ABA to NHL and NBA. I'm not a huge fan of A but it somehow becomes round in those words instead of all pointy and slanty like an N.)
Title: Re: Color associations of music genres
Post by: on_wisconsin on August 16, 2014, 12:30:07 PM
What about EDM and Dubstep?