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| Composer | Murail, Tristan (b. 1947) |
| Period | Contemporary |
| Work type | Orchestral |
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Messiaen, Mozart and Murail offer a kaleidoscope of colors and sounds at the New York Philharmonic
“Synesthesia” is a neurological condition that causes an involuntary sensory experience to be provoked from an initial stimulation of a different sensory or cognitive pathway – for instance, automatically associating colors with numbers, letters, or sounds. Olivier Messiaen, a 20th-century French composer, organist, and ornithologist, “heard” colors in all music, whether tonal, modal, or serial.