This study is an interesting look at how textile print can be influenced by Synesthesia.

I have used the text from the study (see below) and I have written this document verbatim. This is because I wanted to show how intrinsic the wording is in terms of academic writing. I need to bring this into my own academic analysis and writing.

The purpose of this study is to “investigate the positioning of emotional language images in popular music genres for developing textile print design ideas. Auditory and synaesthetic imagery were employed to deduct emotional language imageries from popular music genres and analyze differences in emotional language imageries according to popular music genres.”

With six genres of popular music, which “were selected as stimulus and a survey was conducted to analyze emotional language imagery differences and similarities depending on popular music genres.”

“The results of this study are as follows:

The results of the factor analysis and the reliability test on emotional language imagery showed factorial structures that include Lyrical-Feminine, Intense-Masculine, Euphoric-Active, Gloomy-Melancholy, Abstruse-Sophisticated, and Addictive-Continuous. The results of the mean scores of emotional language imagery of each popular music genre showed that respondents tended to perceive that ballad and new age music are similar and hip-hop & rap, dance, and metal-rock are similar. Based on the multidimensional scaling analysis, new age positioned Lyrical-Feminine, metal-rock positioned Intense-Masculine, dance music positioned Euphoric-Active, and ballad positioned Gloomy-Melancholy.”

This study provides elementary resources to inspire innovative textile prints designed through different characteristics of emotional language imagery according to each popular music genre.

Key words : Emotional Language imagery, Popular Music genres, Synesthesia, Textile Print Design.

The artist Wassily Kandinsky’s the visualization of music (a synesthete)

Fig 1 Vasilij Kandinski – Impression III (Concert) (Impression III [Konzert])

Fig 2 Vasilij Kandinski – Impression II

Fig 3 Vasilij Kandinski – Composition 5

Jung(2002). A study of fashion design based on musical sensitivities : centred on synesthetic interpretation about Jazz Lee(2004). A study of fashion design based on visualization of music:
centred on expressing cosmos image by synesthetic interpretation about punk rock.

Fashion designs by synesthetic interpretation of popular music

This study goes into quite a lot of detail. Further reading can be found here

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Images

Fig 1 Vasilij Kandinski – Impression III (Concert) (Impression III [Konzert]) https://svetslik.si/en/vasilij-kandinski-en/impression-iii-concert-impression-iii-konzert/

Fig 2 Vasilij Kandinski – Impression II https://www.wassilykandinsky.net/work-135.php

Fig 3 Vasilij Kandinski – Composition V https://www.wassilykandinsky.net/work-115.php