Sound and color

The experience of color in the West has always been closely interwoven with the experience of music.

Some Greeks theorists considered "color"to be a quality of sound itself, together with pitch and duration.

What most impressed the Greeks,it seems,was the capacity of color,like sound,to be articulated in a series of regularly changing stages whose differences were perceptible in an equally regular way-for Aristotle and his school light and dark appear to have been cognate with clear and muffled sound or even high and low pitch.

The affective power of music depended on its status as action and its importance in that it provided the most comprehensive imitation of action in human affairs.

Reference: John Gage, the sound of color, P227 Color and culture.