The sound of color

Yes, I am talking about color again. Several things have happened this week that really intrigued me.

I was driving the other day to the airport - had about an hour on the road. Sometimes I listen to a lesson, sometimes I just listen to the radio, and other times I find an old CD, an old friend, and sing along to songs that inspire me.

So anyway, driving down the freeway and suddenly there's a Pier One commercial. Now if you know me, ads are wasted on me, I can tune them out very easily, and most don't get any attention. For an ad to grab me, it had to really stand out. Pier One did an ad that was the sound of color...they said the word pink and then played the music to go with it, and it instantly brought to mind a pink room. Then Green, then Blue. It was interesting that each piece of music not only brought up a color but even a shade of color. I could see the color they were talking about. Very brave to do that on a commercial I thought, and very effective. It really made me think, not so much about Pier One but about the effects that colors have on us and the fact that you could hear it. I began thinking of how music would describe other shades and how I would communicate it. It reminded me of a class in college on the study of imagination and creativity. We had to make up some music for it, if I could go back, this would be my song, my rainbow song. Create a rainbow of music. Doesn't that sound enticing? It intrigues 2 senses instead of one.

As I was thinking all this, Spandau Ballet's "True" came on the radio. There's a line that just isn't sung, it's sung from the bottom of the heart. "This is the SOOOOOOOOOOUNNNNNNND of my soul". With that one word I connect to my own soul and feel it's uncaged depths. I see a rainbow with that song - the rainbow of my soul.
And while we are singing "it's red and gold and green and" ok, but humor is good right? For this musician, sound is his art form and how he connects to the world so this is very powerful for him. Music is powerful for me but I have not been blessed in that area, music may speak to me, but my communication to the world is through color and design. Creating a story with a home, making it YOUR story and making it a story that has all the exciting things you need, a great hero or heroine, a challenge and the great reveal which makes it all make sense. It's a story that discovers a deeper part of who you are and helps propel you to who you want to be.

Do you know how you communicate to the world? What colors are in your rainbow? What speaks to you, music, the written word, a picture - a little bit of all? How do you show your colors?

Here's a fun exercise, choose the colors and it will tell you a bit about your career path. Don't think a color could say that much about you - give it a try, a color speaks volumes. http://www.careerpath.com/career-tests/color-test/