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A feast for the senses

A strange phenomenon is going on this weekend: Synaesthesia 2. Synaesthesia is an involuntary condition experienced by some, such as 20th-century classical composers Scriabin and Messiaen. When they heard a sound or musical pitch, they would automatically see, in their mind’s eye, some particular color. This variety of synaesthesia is sometimes called “chromesthesia” or “color […]

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