This is why interaction designer and creative coder Andreas Refsgaard has created Eye Conductor, a music production app that uses facial tracking to translate the human eye's gaze into musical notes or beats in a drum sequencer, while specific facial movements can trigger effects and octave transposition.
The ambiguity of sound is partly due to the nature of enharmonic chords, chords that sound identical but in musical notation use different notes (as G♭, identical in sound with F♯).
They have connected -- beautifully -- in the pen strokes of Shakespeare, in the musical notes of Mozart, and in the inventive genius of men like Isaac Newton and Bill Gates.
A number of types have been reported, ranging from music-colour synesthesia, in which musical notes and sounds are associated with colour visualization, to tactile-emotion synesthesia, in which certain fabrics and textures conjure certain emotions in the synesthete.
Martinů's keen humour was also evident in The Revolt, a ballet in which musical notes call a strike, critics commit suicide and Stravinsky takes refuge on a desert island before a Moravian folk song saves the day.
Her Italian, with its remnants of Swiss German, swoops high and low in thrilling musical notes, like an excited bird.
On the contrary, DIFFERENT errors were sometimes (32.1% of times, 9 pairs out of 28) associated to mistakes made in identifying musical notes corresponding to black keys, which are usually more difficult to identify.
The results observed here are possibly underestimated as SAME errors were always (100% of times, see Table 1) associated to mistakes in identifying musical notes corresponding to white keys of the piano whose pitch is usually easier to identify [1].
"Through the variation in these musical notes, it tries to give you an idea of how the graph might be laid like," he said.
The gameplay is similar to GuitarFreaks, in that the player presses buttons on the guitar controller in time with musical notes that scroll on the game screen.
