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Multi-Family ? Somerville, MA 02143 is now new to the market! | Benoit Real Estate Group Blog Your number one source for finding homes in Somerville MA Real Estate, Cambridge MA Real Estate, Arlington MA Real Estate, Middlesex County Real Estate, and surrounding towns.

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iTunes 11.0.3 released with enhanced MiniPlayer, multi-disc albums

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Cutting through all the Google I/O news is this update from Apple: today, Cupertino released iTunes version 11.0.3. This isn't just an incremental refresh, as several new features are on board, including an improved Songs View and the ability to view multi-disc albums as a single album. The update also brings enhancements to the MiniPlayer, such as a new album artwork view and a progress bar. Of course, those changes are accompanied by the usual performance improvements and bug fixes. You can get iTunes 11.0.3 now through Software Update.

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The Practical Guide To Buying Real Estate | Pete Siegel

There are many aspects of real estate that can be overwhelming, from the various regulations to the difficulties of obtaining financing. Learning home buying tricks can make your experience more successful.

When negotiating with real estate purchases, always use a moderate approach. Lots of people try to be overly aggressive only to lose out in the end. Firmly establish the basic deal you will accept, but let professionals take care of the details. Your lawyer and the Realtor or experienced in these things, and will probably negotiate a better deal than you could.

Be sure to find a partner you can trust to work together with, when buying expensive and large commercial property. It gives you someone to consult with, and also will increase your standing when applying for a mortgage. Investing with a partner helps to reduce the cost you will have to pay for a down payment, and it can increase your chances of being approved when applying for a large commercial loan.

TIP! A steady, non-confrontational approach is best when you decide to buy a property and enter the negotiating phase. A lot of people want to get a good deal, and begin acting aggressively; they end up doing themselves more harm than good.

Exercise flexibility when making decisions. Finding a home with all of the features on your wish list may not be financially possible, but you probably can afford a few things. If you can?t find the perfect house in the perfect area, look for it in an adequate area or find an adequate house in a perfect area.

Buying a fixer upper is a great way to save money and invest wisely. The value of the home will increase right away after doing this kind of work. In fact, the value of the home may even go up more then you actually invested in it.

Now is the perfect time to start investing in real estate. The market crashed, and prices as well as interest rates are extremely low right now. It?s the perfect time to leave an apartment and move into your own house. Since the prices will eventually go up again, if you purchase now, you are sure to make your investment profitable.

TIP! Real estate agents who make an effort to remember clients will be rewarded when those clients need to remember a real estate agent. They will remember how helpful you were when you contact them.

Make an offer only after researching the comparable home sales in the area, the condition of the home and how long the house has been on the market. The seller can help you settle on an ultimate selling price you will both be satisfied with.

Buying a new home? Here are some things you should know before you get started. Implement these tips and avoid the pitfalls that many new home buyers fall prey to. Hopefully you can use these techniques to find a home you love living in. Good luck.

For more real estate info, visit: Anchorage Ky homes for sale The time you?ve spend reading these real estate buying tips is time well spent. A real estate agent can help you to a certain extent, but there are many decisions that you have to make yourself. You have now equipped yourself with better tools for making the right choices.

Source: http://petesiegel.com/the-practical-guide-to-buying-real-estate

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The Honest Toddler: A child's guide for parents - Parentdish UK

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If you haven't been following @HonestToddler on Twitter, you've missed a treat over the past year.

Written by an infamous tot, with an unbridled sense of entitlement and irrefutable charm, the hilarious and witty diatribe of toddler tweets gives us an insight into what a two-year-old's mind might just work like.

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Why WOULDN'T she get upset when asked to eat a broken cracker or a 'wrongly peeled' banana? What, exactly, is the point of spoiling juice by diluting it with water? And would YOU share your brand new car with a 'friend' who might 'break' it? Get real!

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Up until a month ago, the identity of the 'toddler' on a tirade was unknown. But she has recently 'come out' as Canadian parenting writer, and mum, Bunmi Laditan, who launched the hilarious Twitter account as a form of cathartic release (and also because she thought it would be interesting to think about life from a toddler's perspective) after her angelic baby morphed overnight into a mini-tyrant determined to make even a simple trip to the supermarket a hellish and humiliating experience. (Haven't we all been THERE?!)

After @HonestToddler became an internet sensation, the logical step was for said toddler to write a manual instructing parents on the needs of toddlers.

Cue new (and effortlessly entertaining) book: The Honest Toddler, A Child's Guide to Parenting, ?7.99 (Orion) published in the UK on May 23

This comical manual covers the big questions such as: Who Does Mummy Belong To? How Can You Prevent Siblings? Sleep and Weaning Your Parents Off It, plus general advice on preferred toddler foods (ice cream and non-organic gummy bears) and sleep training methods (hint: none), Honest Toddler has everything every parent needs to know to keep their little angel happy.

It's a giggle a page as you recognise your own gregarious tot through the book and read an all-too honest appraisal of your own parenting shortcuts that don't go unnoticed by an honest toddler (think skipping pages in a bedtime story. Oh yes!).

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?You'll be hooked on this book from beginning to end. Cleverly- written with tongue placed expertly in cheek, it deserves a place on the bookshelf of every (tired and confused) parent of a toddler. Not least to make you laugh out loud through that haze of exasperated exhaustion.

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Here's a snapshot of some of it, in our Q&A session with Honest Toddler. But I'd advise you to get hold of a copy yourself if you want to know what your toddler really thinks of you and your parenting style and how to make him/her endlessly happy!

Q: What does The Honest Toddler think about 'Sharing'?

A: Even though it sounds ridiculous, many adults believe that because children don't have formal employment, all of their possessions must be non-proprietary, This form of communism is not only dangerous but 100 percent no.

Wrong: Sadie, it looks like Henry wants to play with your LEGO. Why don't you give up your dreams and let him destroy everything?

Right: Sadie, it looks like Henry wants to play with your LEGO. Move aside while I throw him out of the house.

70 percent of all toddler-on-toddler violence comes from sharing. 86 per cent of toddler illness is a direct result of sharing.

Parents, please be honest with yourselves. Do you like sharing? If a strange woman or man knocked on your door and asked to borrow your vehicle, how would you feel? Mothers, everyone sees how you guard your handbag, as if it's full of gold coins and chardonnay rather than toddler socks and receipts. Daddies, you clench that remote control as if it's the only thing keeping your heart beating. It's time to admit that sharing hurts everybody.

Q: What does The Honest Toddler think about you treating the family to eating out in a restaurant?

A: What a terrible idea. Even if you're bringing a bag of emergency clothes, snacks from home, an iPad, iPhone, iTouch, backup Android, markers, stickers, a 1,001 page activity book, and a stuffed bear, you will eventually regret your choice. The only thing toddlers detest more than dinner is dinner in public. There is an enormous amount of pressure to remain seated in restaurants, as well as to maintain lower than reasonable voice-decibel levels.

Everyone knows that toddlers are burrowing animals. Your child will feel most comfortable under the restaurant table. Leave it alone. Public booster seats and high chairs smell like sick and are constricting.

There is only one course your child is interested in: the bread. Order the ?15 macaroni and cheese or chicken strips if you must, but understand that you'll be taking it home to feast on at midnight (as if we don't know). Pass your child the breadbasket under the table along with a juice box from home.

Five minutes later, your toddler will be done eating. Your drinks may not have arrived, but now is the time to pack it up and go home. If you decide to stay, know that you are opening yourself up to a world of public embarrassment.

A box of crayons and a menu that doubles as a colouring book are no match for a toddler determined to end a family's evening out. Next time go to the drive-through and eat in the car.

Q: What does The Honest Toddler think about the food you try to feed him?

A: Do not go to the Internet for information on feeding your toddler. It's full of lies and blog posts. Toddlers need to eat from the following five food groups daily:

RED: Popsicles, certain apples, and juice all fit into the red category. Be sure that toddlers enjoy some red each and every day.

WHITE: Normal bread, birthday cake, pasta without seasoning, pizza, and marshmallows are all part of a healthy white diet. Don't make a big deal.

JUICE: Better than water, this liquid will help your toddler advance in life. Resist the urge to get weird about it.

CHEESE: If you see a cheese on the Food Network, it's the wrong kind. Only two types of cheese are toddler-appropriate: yellow and string.

CHOCOLATE: Be generous.

Q: What does The Honest Toddler think about bedtime routine?

A: Ah! There's nothing like a cosy pair of cotton pyjamas. The only thing that can ruin them is the wrong design. Science has proved that toddlers who sleep in the wrong-coloured pyjamas throw up. Check your toddler for signs that the pyjamas you've chosen are incorrect. Screaming and head banging will be the first obvious indicators. It's now up to you to go on a scavenger hunt for the right set. If they're dirty, run the washer and dryer. Why should I even have to say that?

Your confusion over saying goodnight comes from television. In diaper commercials, parents tuck their toddlers in, wave goodbye from the door, go outside, and drive away. That isn't real life.

The proper way to wish your toddler pleasant dreams, is to start with four kisses and then ten hugs. Walk towards the bedroom door. As you get one foot out, your toddler will call you back. This is fine. Relax the angry lines in your face. Since there are no limits on true love, repeat the kiss/hug intervals for as long as it takes. If a demon tempts you to say something like "This is the last hug," tap out and call Grandma. Shame on you.

About an hour into your kiss/hug dance, pick up your toddler and tenderly place him in the big bed (aka mummy and daddy's). Don't think, just do it. Lie down beside your blessing and watch a movie on your computer until you both fall asleep. You did it! Treat yourself with a small mint.

Q: What does the Honest Toddler think about mum's iPad?

A: If your toddler doesn't have an iPad, she doesn't know what a good time looks or feels like.

There are hundreds of games to play and contacts to delete. When your toddler clears your address book, he's saying, 'You are mine.' Open your heart to this message of love, and cut your friends out of your life once and for all. If your songs, movies or books go missing, see it as a form of censorship by your toddler. You don't have time for books other than this one, let's be honest about that. What are you reading? Nothing. Your music is nonsensical and makes you feel carefree (you're not).

iPads are indestructible, but every now and then, a powerful toddler fails to recognise her own strength. Don't make a big deal. When your toddler kills the iPad, through either juice saturation or a short but fatal flight across the room, just pick it up and bury it in the front yard. The people of Apple will bring a new one in five to seven days; all you have to do is give them hundreds of dollars. What's money when you have love?


The Honest Toddler, A Child's Guide to Parenting, ?7.99 (Orion) is published in the UK on May 23.

  • <p> [In the supermarket] &ldquo;Mummmy? I need a weeeee.&rdquo;</p> <p> <br /> &ldquo;But you had a wee before we came out.&rdquo;</p> <p> <br /> [With great urgency] &ldquo;Need a WEEEEEEEEE!&rdquo;</p> <p> <br /> [10 minutes later, shopping abandoned, supermarket traversed, cubicle awaited, trousers/pants removed, child balanced on toilet]</p> <p> &ldquo;So? Are you going to do a wee?&rdquo;</p> <p> <br /> &ldquo;No.&rdquo;</p>

  • <p> &ldquo;Mummy? Make scramble egg?&rdquo;</p> <p> [Spend 15 minutes helping child break eggs and stir them VERY slowly until partially mixed. Wipe egg off all kitchen surfaces. Spend 15 minutes helping child stir eggs in warm pan until eggs are massively overcooked]</p> <p> &ldquo;Right, time to eat your scrambled egg!&rdquo;</p> <p> &ldquo;Want CocoPops.&rdquo;</p>

  • <p> &ldquo;Come on QUCKLY please! We're really late.&rdquo;</p> <p> <br /> [Child goes into slow motion mode. Or worse, bends double, hangs arms to floor, and goes into robot which has lost power mode]</p>

  • <p> &ldquo;Please go and get your shoes.&rdquo;</p> <p> <br /> [Child returns five minutes later. With a place mat]</p>

  • <p> &ldquo;Swings, mummy! Swings, mummy! SWINGS, MUMMY!&rdquo;</p> <p> [Concede child needs fresh air and exercise. Dress child appropriately. Attach child's coat. Attach child's wellies. Ensure child has a wee. Pack essential snacks and juice. Put on own coat and shoes&hellip; discover child asleep on sofa]<br /> </p>

  • <p> &ldquo;Mummy, PLAY HIDE SEEK! Pleeeeease!&rdquo;</p> <p> <br /> &ldquo;Okay, you count, I'll hide.&rdquo;</p> <p> <br /> [10 minutes later, emerge from behind kitchen door to find child has forgotten all about hide and seek and is looking at a book]</p>

  • <p> &ldquo;Mummmy&hellip;?&rdquo;</p> <p> <br /> &ldquo;Yes, darling?&rdquo;</p> <p> <br /> &ldquo;&hellip;Mummmyyyy?</p> <p> <br /> &ldquo;Yes, darling what is it?&rdquo;</p> <p> <br /> &ldquo;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;Mummmmmmyyyy?&rdquo;</p> <p> <br /> &ldquo;YES?! What do you want?!!&rdquo;</p> <p> <br /> &ldquo;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&rdquo;</p> <p> <br /> [Child exits room]</p> <p> </p>

  • <p> [Exit lounge to go to the loo. Return to find entire room covered in flour. Recognise hysteria bubbling up through torso at sight of completely white child/sofa/carpet&hellip;]</p> <p> &ldquo;I luff you, mummy!&rdquo;</p> <p> &ldquo;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip;&hellip; [deeeeep breath] I love you, too.&rdquo;</p>

  • <p> &ldquo;Mummy, this your glasses?&rdquo;</p> <p> &ldquo;Yes you know you're not supposed to touch&hellip;&rdquo;</p> <p> [SNAP! ?#@*&amp;%!!!]</p>

  • <p> &ldquo;Mummmy? Biscuit please?&rdquo;</p> <p> <br /> [Hand over packet of biscuits with instruction to take just one.</p> <p> Child drops packet of biscuits twice.]</p> <p> &ldquo;Not this one, iss broken. Not this one, iss broken. Not this one, iss broken. Not this one, iss broken&hellip;&rdquo;</p>

Source: http://www.parentdish.co.uk/kids/the-honest-toddler-a-childs-guide-for-parents-interview-twitter-star/

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Thursday, May 16, 2013

Vintage Homemaker: Today&#39;s card - Vintage Papery

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After spending time sorting through all my crafting stash, cleaning, discarding?and organizing those loose bits you eventually gather, I sat down and made a simple card.

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I used a gatefold style card and arranged the items I wanted to use around the fold of the card.

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This cheerful topper was one of the very first sticker sets I brought from ebay when I found out I wanted to paper craft.?Back then,?I had one black ink, two stamps, some paper and these stickers. Luckly I also had many bits of lace and things from my sewing I could add. It just goes to show you really don't need much to start any craft. Just start.


Source: http://vintagepapery.blogspot.com/2013/05/todays-card.html

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China missile hit highest suborbital level since 1976: scientist

WASHINGTON | Wed May 15, 2013 1:33am EDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - China launched a large missile on Monday that reached 6,200 miles above the earth, its highest suborbital launch since 1976, according to a U.S. scientist at Harvard University.

Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, said the rocket was launched from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in western China, and China said the rocket carried a science payload which studied the earth's magnetosphere.

He said the rocket could possibly be used in the future to carry an anti-satellite payload on a similar trajectory, but there was no evidence to indicate the launch was intended to test such a capability.

The United States remains concerned about China's development of anti-satellite capabilities after it shot a missile at one of its own defunct satellites in orbit in 2007, creating an enormous amount of debris in space.

Monday's rocket launch was similar to launches using the Blue Scout Junior rocket that were conducted by the U.S. Air Force in the 1960s for research on the Earth's magnetosphere, McDowell said in an emailed response to questions.

The launch came less than a week after U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton Carter unveiled what he called a "long overdue" effort to safeguard U.S. national security satellites and develop ways to counter the space capabilities of potential adversaries.

The Pentagon also released an 83-page report on Chinese military developments that highlighted China's increasing space capabilities and said Beijing was pursuing a variety of activities aimed at preventing its adversaries from using space-based assets during a crisis.

A Pentagon spokesman declined to comment on the Chinese rocket launch.

(Reporting By Andrea Shalal-Esa; Editing by Mohammad Zargham and Ron Popeski)

Source: http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/reuters/scienceNews/~3/ZFoOpC4Ll6s/story01.htm

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Bach to the blues, our emotions match music to colors

Bach to the blues, our emotions match music to colors [ Back to EurekAlert! ] Public release date: 16-May-2013
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Contact: Yasmin Anwar
yanwar@berkeley.edu
510-643-7944
University of California - Berkeley

Study suggests music-color associations cross cultural boundaries

Whether we're listening to Bach or the blues, our brains are wired to make music-color connections depending on how the melodies make us feel, according to new research from the University of California, Berkeley. For instance, Mozart's jaunty Flute Concerto No. 1 in G major is most often associated with bright yellow and orange, whereas his dour Requiem in D minor is more likely to be linked to dark, bluish gray.

Moreover, people in both the United States and Mexico linked the same pieces of classical orchestral music with the same colors. This suggests that humans share a common emotional palette when it comes to music and color that appears to be intuitive and can cross cultural barriers, UC Berkeley researchers said.

"The results were remarkably strong and consistent across individuals and cultures and clearly pointed to the powerful role that emotions play in how the human brain maps from hearing music to seeing colors," said UC Berkeley vision scientist Stephen Palmer, lead author of a paper published this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Using a 37-color palette, the UC Berkeley study found that people tend to pair faster-paced music in a major key with lighter, more vivid, yellow colors, whereas slower-paced music in a minor key is more likely to be teamed up with darker, grayer, bluer colors.

"Surprisingly, we can predict with 95 percent accuracy how happy or sad the colors people pick will be based on how happy or sad the music is that they are listening to," said Palmer, who will present these and related findings at the International Association of Colour conference at the University of Newcastle in the U.K. on July 8. At the conference, a color light show will accompany a performance by the Northern Sinfonia orchestra to demonstrate "the patterns aroused by music and color converging on the neural circuits that register emotion," he said.

The findings may have implications for creative therapies, advertising and even music player gadgetry. For example, they could be used to create more emotionally engaging electronic music visualizers, computer software that generates animated imagery synchronized to the music being played. Right now, the colors and patterns appear to be randomly generated and do not take emotion into account, researchers said.

They may also provide insight into synesthesia, a neurological condition in which the stimulation of one perceptual pathway, such as hearing music, leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a different perceptual pathway, such as seeing colors. An example of sound-to-color synesthesia was portrayed in the 2009 movie The Soloist when cellist Nathaniel Ayers experiences a mesmerizing interplay of swirling colors while listening to the Los Angeles symphony. Artists such as Wassily Kandinksky and Paul Klee may have used music-to-color synesthesia in their creative endeavors.

Nearly 100 men and women participated in the UC Berkeley music-color study, of which half resided in the San Francisco Bay Area and the other half in Guadalajara, Mexico. In three experiments, they listened to 18 classical music pieces by composers Johann Sebastian Bach, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Johannes Brahms that varied in tempo (slow, medium, fast) and in major versus minor keys.

In the first experiment, participants were asked to pick five of the 37 colors that best matched the music to which they were listening. The palette consisted of vivid, light, medium, and dark shades of red, orange, yellow, green, yellow-green, green, blue-green, blue, and purple.

Participants consistently picked bright, vivid, warm colors to go with upbeat music and dark, dull, cool colors to match the more tearful or somber pieces. Separately, they rated each piece of music on a scale of happy to sad, strong to weak, lively to dreary and angry to calm.

Two subsequent experiments studying music-to-face and face-to-color associations supported the researchers' hypothesis that "common emotions are responsible for music-to-color associations," said Karen Schloss, a postdoctoral researchers at UC Berkeley and co-author of the paper.

For example, the same pattern occurred when participants chose the facial expressions that "went best" with the music selections, Schloss said. Upbeat music in major keys was consistently paired with happy-looking faces while subdued music in minor keys was paired with sad-looking faces. Similarly, happy faces were paired with yellow and other bright colors and angry faces with dark red hues.

Next, Palmer and his research team plan to study participants in Turkey where traditional music employs a wider range of scales than just major and minor. "We know that in Mexico and the U.S. the responses are very similar," he said. "But we don't yet know about China or Turkey."

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Other co-authors of the study are Zoe Xu of UC Berkeley and Lilia Prado-Leon of the University of Guadalajara, Mexico.


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Bach to the blues, our emotions match music to colors [ Back to EurekAlert! ] Public release date: 16-May-2013
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Contact: Yasmin Anwar
yanwar@berkeley.edu
510-643-7944
University of California - Berkeley

Study suggests music-color associations cross cultural boundaries

Whether we're listening to Bach or the blues, our brains are wired to make music-color connections depending on how the melodies make us feel, according to new research from the University of California, Berkeley. For instance, Mozart's jaunty Flute Concerto No. 1 in G major is most often associated with bright yellow and orange, whereas his dour Requiem in D minor is more likely to be linked to dark, bluish gray.

Moreover, people in both the United States and Mexico linked the same pieces of classical orchestral music with the same colors. This suggests that humans share a common emotional palette when it comes to music and color that appears to be intuitive and can cross cultural barriers, UC Berkeley researchers said.

"The results were remarkably strong and consistent across individuals and cultures and clearly pointed to the powerful role that emotions play in how the human brain maps from hearing music to seeing colors," said UC Berkeley vision scientist Stephen Palmer, lead author of a paper published this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Using a 37-color palette, the UC Berkeley study found that people tend to pair faster-paced music in a major key with lighter, more vivid, yellow colors, whereas slower-paced music in a minor key is more likely to be teamed up with darker, grayer, bluer colors.

"Surprisingly, we can predict with 95 percent accuracy how happy or sad the colors people pick will be based on how happy or sad the music is that they are listening to," said Palmer, who will present these and related findings at the International Association of Colour conference at the University of Newcastle in the U.K. on July 8. At the conference, a color light show will accompany a performance by the Northern Sinfonia orchestra to demonstrate "the patterns aroused by music and color converging on the neural circuits that register emotion," he said.

The findings may have implications for creative therapies, advertising and even music player gadgetry. For example, they could be used to create more emotionally engaging electronic music visualizers, computer software that generates animated imagery synchronized to the music being played. Right now, the colors and patterns appear to be randomly generated and do not take emotion into account, researchers said.

They may also provide insight into synesthesia, a neurological condition in which the stimulation of one perceptual pathway, such as hearing music, leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a different perceptual pathway, such as seeing colors. An example of sound-to-color synesthesia was portrayed in the 2009 movie The Soloist when cellist Nathaniel Ayers experiences a mesmerizing interplay of swirling colors while listening to the Los Angeles symphony. Artists such as Wassily Kandinksky and Paul Klee may have used music-to-color synesthesia in their creative endeavors.

Nearly 100 men and women participated in the UC Berkeley music-color study, of which half resided in the San Francisco Bay Area and the other half in Guadalajara, Mexico. In three experiments, they listened to 18 classical music pieces by composers Johann Sebastian Bach, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Johannes Brahms that varied in tempo (slow, medium, fast) and in major versus minor keys.

In the first experiment, participants were asked to pick five of the 37 colors that best matched the music to which they were listening. The palette consisted of vivid, light, medium, and dark shades of red, orange, yellow, green, yellow-green, green, blue-green, blue, and purple.

Participants consistently picked bright, vivid, warm colors to go with upbeat music and dark, dull, cool colors to match the more tearful or somber pieces. Separately, they rated each piece of music on a scale of happy to sad, strong to weak, lively to dreary and angry to calm.

Two subsequent experiments studying music-to-face and face-to-color associations supported the researchers' hypothesis that "common emotions are responsible for music-to-color associations," said Karen Schloss, a postdoctoral researchers at UC Berkeley and co-author of the paper.

For example, the same pattern occurred when participants chose the facial expressions that "went best" with the music selections, Schloss said. Upbeat music in major keys was consistently paired with happy-looking faces while subdued music in minor keys was paired with sad-looking faces. Similarly, happy faces were paired with yellow and other bright colors and angry faces with dark red hues.

Next, Palmer and his research team plan to study participants in Turkey where traditional music employs a wider range of scales than just major and minor. "We know that in Mexico and the U.S. the responses are very similar," he said. "But we don't yet know about China or Turkey."

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Other co-authors of the study are Zoe Xu of UC Berkeley and Lilia Prado-Leon of the University of Guadalajara, Mexico.


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