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globohomo
I also experience the color association when I compose music. It's innate, really. I also, in my mind's eye, have a sense of texture and can sort of visualize lines and movement depending on the rhythm and tempo, but color has more to do with chords and harmony. I don't know if it has anything to do with Ni, though. But I feel it's also natural to visualize music. I can visualize scenes that go with the music I hear as well as create. I don't know how it relates to Ni but I don't think it's exclusive to Ni ego.
I've come to find, though, that with many classical pieces, a story is associated with the piece. I had an SLE conductor who says that stories have nothing to do with music, that music exists for music's own sake. I agree with him on that, from a composer's POV (I create music for the sake of music, being led by my ear, my emotions, and pure spontaneity as I play around with chords and single notes until something clicks inside of me, and like a sculptor, I chip away the excess until I have a fully formed melody and harmony), but I don't think it's at all unusual to have a visual association with music (I'm talking about the instrumental quality, purely, and not lyrics and songwriting) that lends to a sense of pattern, color, and even a story.
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