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    The Colors of Voices
    The Colors of Voices
    The Colors of Voices
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    The Colors of Voices

    By Dave Love

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    In 1979, Dave Love lost his sight. This book presents his methods of using sounds and color memory to recognize people and discern moods and personalities. Citing well-documented sources, he explains how individuals perceive visual and auditory information, presenting a rare glimpse into the mental workings of a visually-challenged person, revealing that everyone owns a voice of its own color.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDave Love
    Release dateAug 24, 2010
    ISBN9781452495934
    The Colors of Voices
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    Dave Love

    Dave Love hears colors. To him, peoples’ voices can appear red or blue—or any other color in the rainbow—and include tones and hues that help him discern moods and personalities.Dave is a musician, composer, singer, author, equestrian, and professionally, a music therapist. At the age of seven, he suffered a traumatic brain injury that resulted in loss of his vision, taste, and smell. He realized that he would not be able to pursue art as a career as he had hoped, so he studied piano and guitar, and later joined the marching band at his high school. At eleven years of age, Dave began showing horses and won world championships in Fox Trotting in 1982, 1984, and 1986, competing against sighted riders.After being mainstreamed in the Parkway public school system in St. Louis, Dave graduated from Missouri Baptist College in 1994 with a degree in Behavioral Sciences. In 2004, he received his Music Therapy degree from Maryville University. Today, Dave works as a music therapist and, in his free time, composes music. He has produced four albums of his original compositions: Beyond A Shadow Of A Doubt, Just To Be Different , It’ s Music To My Ears, and Peace In Pieces. They are available as C Ds. He loves to travel and his excursions have taken him to London, Paris, Canada, the former Soviet Union, Cancun, and the Bahamas. He credits his trip to the Soviet Union in 1992 with inspiring the writing of this book.“Because I no longer rely on my sight, my hearing has become acute. I am also reliant on my memories from before my accident. These two attributes, hearing and memory, work together to provide the colors I hear in voices.” – Dave LoveTo contact Dave or order his CDs and books visit: www.davelovemusic.com

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      The Colors of Voices - Dave Love

      The Colors of Voices

      By

      David Love

      The Color of Voices

      Copyright 2011 by David Love

      All Rights Reserved. No part of this publication may be used, sold, reproduced, stored, or transmitted in any form, or by any means without the prior written permission of the copyright holder.

      Cover design by Amanda Shull

      Book design by StL Books LLC

      Printed in the United States of America

      First Printing: April 2011

      Second Printing: August 2013

      Third Printing: November 2014

      Fourth Printing: February 2015

      Smashwords Edition License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each person you share it with. If you're reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then you should return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the author's work.

      Dedication

      I dedicate this writing to my mother Ethyl Love, to my friend

      Jackie McCoy, the Oldies Show, and my other close friends.

      Thank You

      Thank you to Cheri Robertson for her valuable editing assistance

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Introduction

      Chapter One – Defining Colors

      Chapter Two – The Eye

      Chapter Three – How the Colors Are Made Up In the Sound of the Voice

      Chapter Four – Color Layers of Sound and the Shape of a Voice

      Chapter Five – Sentences, Words, Numbers and Music Notes

      Chapter Six – Background Colors of Moods and Feelings

      Chapter Seven – Outline of a Voice Study

      Chapter Eight – The Way the Voice Study Sounds Within the Colors

      Chapter Nine – Another Voice Study

      Chapter Ten – Voice Frequencies

      Chapter Eleven – Music Tone Colors

      Chapter Twelve – Singing Voice

      Chapter Thirteen – Conversation Formulas

      Chapter Fourteen – Stages of Life and the Developing Communication Skills

      Chapter Fifteen – Outline of the Vocal Chords

      Chapter Sixteen – Voice Disorders, Diseases and Other Causes

      Chapter Seventeen – The Ear

      Chapter Eighteen – Causes of Hearing Loss

      Chapter Nineteen – Other Voices, Words, Sayings and Changing Colors

      Chapter Twenty – Facts of Colors in What You See and Hear Everyday

      Chapter Twenty-One – The Colors of Life Experiences

      Chapter Twenty-Two – Voices in Dreams

      Chapter Twenty-Three – Different Kinds of Therapies

      Chapter Twenty-Four – Voice and Color Technologies

      Conclusion

      Helpful References

      Introduction

      In 1979, in a forklift accident on my grandfather’s farm, I lost my senses of sight, smell, and taste, and suffered a brain injury as well. Although I didn’t realize it at the time, I also gained something, something most people regard as remarkable if they believe me. It is something no one can see, smell, taste, or touch, but we all hear it. It is something I am so familiar with that it has become second nature to me.

      I am talking about the colors of voices, the outline of a voice, and how they are made up. There is no right or wrong answer to a voice color, and there is nothing good or bad about the color that the voice makes up. This is called synesthesia, wherein two senses somehow blend together into one sense in the brain.

      The idea of synesthesia was published for the first time as long ago as 1880 in an article by Francis Galton, a cousin of Charles Darwin. For a long time, it was believed to be a fictitious phenomenon. However, today medical research shows that it is genuine. For relying on my memories of colors, this too has a name, and it is called the Charles Bonnet Syndrome. This is a part of the brain that controls the vision, even though the optic nerves don’t work anymore or don’t function properly. This creates phantom images of things in the mind in colors. These two attributes, hearing and memory, work together to provide the colors I hear in voices.

      The first time I meet a person and hear his or her voice, I picture things in my mind concerning the voice, which I will go into later; but for now, I will say that all voices are based on the color white. Some show their whiteness more than others; it depends on the density of each voice.

      A doorbell’s sound is red, always the same color for every doorbell that rings, even though its sound travels to the ear in two intervals: ding-dong. The second interval is darker than the first interval on the doorbell. If the sound were blue, the boundaries would be different. When I hear a doorbell, I always think of Avon, or the song from Wizard of Oz, Ding-Dong the Witch Is Dead. A phone at the college I attended rang with a red sound. I answered that phone for the Development Department during lunch. The phone’s ring was red, but wet, like bubbles coming from underneath the water. How I hear this, I do not know. Many people think of red as a color signifying danger, while green seems safer. Maybe we have come to these conclusions because of standard traffic lights. The sound of a phone ringing is only one sound, but the wind chimes that I have at home make all sorts of sounds at once, and they are all silver, no matter how the wind blows.

      It is like tools being moved in a toolbox; the bigger the box, the deeper silver sound you get. I remember a lot of tools are silver in color. If your wind chimes have different lengths and sizes, you get more musical silver sounds. Whatever strikes or rings has its own sound, and the sound has its own color. For example, if the wind chimes are made out of glass, this sounds blue. This by itself sounds like a music box. For me, all music boxes have the color sound blue, no matter what notes they play. Of course, the music they make is meant to relax you while you are listening. The frequency’s high notes of the music box gives it the feel of the color blue. If the wind chimes are made out of wood, I picture percussion instruments like the wood block or castanets that make up the color brown, like some bark on the trees. A grandfather clock’s chimes sound gold. The smaller the clock, the lighter the sound. The smaller sound has a white glow, making it gold-white. The big ones have a darker sound, gold-black. Of course, the black glow is the size of the darker ring, even with the other notes that are audible. But on the piano each note has its own color. On the grandfather clock chimes make the sound, while a hammer with strings makes the piano’s noise. When I picture the grandfather clock in my head, I can see the pendulum gold, and the hands on the clock itself are gold, with a brown casing around it. This is the kind of grandfather clock I remember seeing back in the 1970s.

      Sound travels differently for each color. It differs with the shape, width, length, narrowness, depth, or wideness of the sound, but the echo in a sound has no effect on it. The voice however, does.

      I can tell when people I know are feeling under the weather, because their voices are a little bit lower, and softer than usual, or just have a different quality to them. When people are under stress, I hear it in their voices although, there is sometimes confusion, because laughing and crying sound alike. However, I have learned that, if I listen very, very closely, laughter does not last as long as crying. When it comes to coughing and sneezing quietly, you can hardly hear the vocal sounds in the cough and in a sneeze. The louder it is, the more of the vocal sounds will show up. When someone clears their throat without saying any words, the vocal sound is much more clear. Also, when someone yawns, but not quietly, the vocal sounds are very much present.

      Chapter One – Defining Colors

      Within sound travels the light energy of colors. Light energy in this case has nothing to do with how fast the sunlight travels. The colors in the rainbow are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. This is a refracting white light with a prism dissolving into its component attributes. It was discovered by Sir Isaac Newton in his 1666 to 1672 experiments. Before, everyone thought color was a mixture of light and darkness, and that prisms were colored light. The Color Theory Scale that went from brilliant red appeared to be pure white light with the least amount of darkness added, and then to dull blue. This appeared to be the last step before black, which was the dead end, where light is extinguished by darkness. Now, thanks to Newton, we know that light alone is responsible for color.

      With light, there are different wavelengths: x-rays, ultraviolet, infrared, microwave, and radio waves. Then you have the different kinds of lamps, like the tungsten lamp, and common ordinary light bulbs, also the fluorescent lamps, tube light bulbs, arc lamps, neon, mercury, or other gas-filled lamps.

      You cannot perceive the light that I am using in order to pick up

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