107 - Seeing Sound in Color

Charly Daniels talks about synesthesia not as a quirk but as the core engine of how he writes — a way of hearing harmony as color, sensing timbre as light or shadow, and shaping form through visual landscapes that unfold in his mind long before notes hit the page. He describes how this inner world emerged from childhood daydreaming, early experiments with his father’s keyboard, and years of listening without notation as a guide, eventually becoming a fully integrated compositional tool. His music grows from these sensory crossovers: clarinets that glow blue, strings that bloom in green, harmonies that brighten into orange or sink into brown, all feeding into a flexible structural intuition that shifts as a piece takes shape. For him, imagining music visually is both a starting point and a feedback loop — a way of staying inside the emotional truth of a sound as it evolves.micro/Maker episodes release every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday!Listen to music/Maker with Tyler Kline wherever you get podcasts, or at musicmakerpodcast.com.Support Loose Leaf Transmissions on Patreon at patreon.com/LooseLeafTransmissions.Follow us on Instagram: @loose.leaf.transmissionsmicro/Maker is a production of Loose Leaf Transmissions: Made for All Ears. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.