How to Live an Aesthetic Life by Wearing, Eating, Traveling By, and Listening to Specific Colors for a Week

Step 7 Orange Day Music

While creating the Orange Day playlist -- which was lacking in its overall number of songs -- it occurred to us that a few bands who tend to name their songs after colors were going to be over represented in this experiment.

• Agent Orange - Depeche Mode
• Agent Orange - Tori Amos
• Appels + Orange - The Smashing Pumpkins
• Orange Blossom Special - Cash, Johnny
• Orange Crush - R.E.M.
• orange hexagon sun - Boards Of Canada
• Orange Pony - Hilt
• Orange Rolls, Angel's Spit - Sonic Youth
• Orange Romeda - Boards Of Canada

Comments

[kmmich]

I always thought Bach feels pretty orange, especially his Brandenburg concertoes. But people always start laughing whenever I suggest that some music associates very well with a specific colour...

[Punkergal]

Hey I'm with you. I tend to think of colors when I listen to music. I also tend to think of shapes when I'm trying to describe a flavor...We should just call it a sign of intelligence...!

[kmmich]

O yes, flavor and shapes or textures... Great to hear of someone else thinking the same way! I think it actually has a name, this association thing (synesthesia, just found it on Wikipedia). But intelligence is also a good name, I'm sure :)

[Punkergal]

I once real an article about children who were associating colors with letters, for example, W would always be brown in their mind...I wonder if this is the same thing?

[EmmettO]

Thats actually a condition called synesthesia where one mental pathway activates another normally unrelated pathway.

[threadbare]

XTC has a whole album called "Oranges & Lemons", I bet that would do!

[Richie15]

More orange day music:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLrYN8CgVPY

[bustedit]

Boards of Canada, huh? You could use ROYGBiV (not sure if thats how BoC spell it) for many days during this ible.