How do you feel at listening to music? Black, white or colorful...?

Is there color in music?  Well, as the people who were interviewed in the video; most of them said that music doesn’t necessarily depends on what the race of the singer is. We can’t judge just for the origins of any kind of musical genre. I mean, many people consider that rap or hip-hop is music from black people; but anyone can interpret or sing or compose lyrics in this genre. There are two different meanings; the first one is the cultural association of the genre´s birth (where musical genre comes from) and the other is relating that genre with only the race it comes from. We can’t say that white music is made by white people or in other way black music is made by black people.

I think that exists a clear relation between the music and the color it has. But my point is that the color is up to anyone’s view. It’s obvious that music produces some feelings and reactions in people, but not all the feelings are similar. For example if I listen to my favorite song, it’s probable that song makes me remember some special moments and the feelings I felt in that moment. If it was a good experience for me, maybe the color is going to be brilliant, happy and intense; I mean we associate or give a color to music according the memories and the colors we remembered.

Another hypothesis is that the color depends on the sound’s frequency and intensity. For example Metallica’s songs are characterized about having strong sounds and a high frequency, so the color which would be associated with, is the black. Also the color depends on the mood. Even though I think that cultural tendencies and customs influence in the color of music. Maybe giving a color to music is a cognitive process; it depends on the symbols environment give every day and the ones the person selects. If one musical genre isn’t known by the person’s beliefs maybe it’s going to be difficult to assign one color for something unknown. So, the person maybe is going to look for something similar and gives it one color to reduce the dissonance of that phenomenon.