The most of the artists paint, sculpt or tell what they see.
Artist Melissa McCracken does this with what she listens to, her gift, in fact, is to be able to rework music in the form of color.
Hers is a neurological condition called synaesthesia, which affects only the 4% of the population, and it makes possible to associate music with a color in a much more instinctive and spontaneous way.
Melissa, who discovered that she was different from the others by chance at the age of 16, decided to take advantage of her condition and transform it into a work because colors, which she sees without any effort or thought, are a fundamental part of her life.
It’s not difficult for her to identify them, she does not need to close her eyes, she does not experience their presence as if they were part of a hallucination.

She listens to songs and transforms them into abstract paintings following only music and its colors.
She has more fun with funk music, the one that hides more nuances and strength inside because of the different instruments, melodies and rhythms that give her paintings very saturated colors.
Rarely she paints acoustic music, too flat because of the single instrument and the single voice that composes it, and never paints country song because what characterizes it is the brown color, too sad for her.

So from John Lennon’s Julia, David Bowie’s Life on Mars, Prince’s Joy in Repetition and many others, we now also know the colors that usually remain hidden behind the notes.