Hearing Color
06.04.25
Sound and color are both waves that physically alter our environment, each capable of evoking the full spectrum of human emotion.
The phenomenon of synesthesia is literally the interpretation of sound as color. Synesthetes and non-synesthetes alike experience music-color association — on dancefloors, in dreams, through psychedelia, or in moments of surprise and inspiration.
Hearing Color asks the question: What does it mean to view sound through color instead of genre, and to explore every color in a contemporary sonic palette? What does colorful music sound like?
James Axon looks to the most cosmic, emotive, and lush varieties of dance music past and present for answers, drawing from the sounds of deep house, dreamy techno, italo, balearic, psychedelic disco, ambient, IDM and the in-between. Sometimes it’s a solo mission, and other times like minded guests join in the musical inquiry.
On this edition of Hearing Color, James Axon is joined by Pilo.
Tracklist:
HOUR ONE: JAMES AXON The Violet Hour – Prisoner of Love Iron Curtis & Johannes Albert – Private Dancer Omri Smadar – You are here (Massimiliano Pagliara Remix) Easttown – Balancing Half Cut – Energy Duowe & Picasso – Tumbeweed Dennis Quinn – Muscle Tornado Wallace – Bitter Suite (Rui da Silva Remix) Retroauve – Feel so Right Demi Riquisimo & The Trip – On A Roll Michael Cignarale – Your Love is My Drug (Club mix) Kerri Chandler – Bar a Thym (Tom Middleton Cosmos Mix) Ron Hagen, Pascal M. – Don’t Hold Back Sleep D – Bush Snake HOUR TWO: PILO Tease – Berserk in a Hayfield Hong Kong Counterfeit – Metal Disco in aeternam vale – oh yeah Le Monsieur Zut Suit – Sid Le Rock Jamie Paton – Dark Room (remix) Le syndicate Electronique – En Partance Steril – say final Pilo – Transmission [unreleased] Neon Man – Bundesnachritchen
