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aisthesis-4635	Hawkins, Vanessa	Music-Color Synesthesia: A Historical and Scientific Overview	2022	8	.pdf	application/pdf	4909	250	49	e deaf in this way will be able to see the music of the ears, the blind to hear the music of the eyes, and we who have both eyes and ears will enjoy music and colors better by enjoying them both at the same time.14 Castel conceived an instrument known as the color organ, in which each key produced not only a rich sound but also a dazzling hue.15 He even dreamed of having the music of an opera painted out on the walls of a room; to have concerts live on through color a)er the music fades away.16 While Pythagoras and Newton approached the link between music and color from a scientic standpoint (which is a logical conclusion, as both sound and light are composed of waves), Castel’s perspective was to nd an emotional connection between the two. e condition was not even a respectable scientic subject until the end of the nineteenth century, following the research of a few pioneers in the eld.21 In 1881, Eugen Bleuler and Karl Bernhard Lehmann conducted the rst comprehensive study of synesthesia as young medical students in Switzerland.22 Blueler himself was a grapheme-color synesthete.23 A)er recognizing Bleuler’s quality as unique, the two scientists began an investigation of this quality in their family members, eventually branching out to an inquiry into other sensory associations with a larger sample size (596 people, 17 Maria Konnakova, “From the Words of an Albino, a Brilliant Blend of Color,” Scienti!c American, Springer Na- ture, February 26, 2013, https://blogs.scienticamerican. com/literally-psyched/from-the-words-of-an-albino-a- brilliant-blend-of-color/https://blogs.scienticamerican. com/literally-psyched/from-the-words-of-an-albino-a- brilliant-blend-of-color.	cache/aisthesis-4635.pdf	txt/aisthesis-4635.txt