Tom Service examines how sounds can be experienced as colour. We talk about “dark” sounds and “light” sounds – the opening of Tchaikovsky’s 6th Symphony, down there in the double-basses and the ...

One scale that goes from C to B, with five equivalent flats and sharps in between, makes up pretty much all the melodies in Western music – but how did we get to these 12 notes? All melodies and ...