Can you think of a musician who sees sounds and hears colors?

Answer 1

Yeah... Some people can do that. It is called Synesthesia not only musicians are prone to it but writers and artists too. It is a brain malfunction where the circuits (so to speak) get cross wired and experiences are sorted and experienced differently than the way everyone else experiences things.

Here is a poem about it by Arthur Rimbaud. He was a synesthetic

A. Black, E. white, I. red, U. green, O. blue: vowels,
I shall tell, one day, of your mysterious origins :

A, black velvety jacket of brilliant flies
Which buzz around cruel smells,
Gulfs of shadow ;

E, whiteness of vapours and of tents,
Lances of proud glaciers, white kings, shivers of cow-parsley ;

I, purples, spat blood, smile of beautiful lips
In anger or in the raptures of penitence;

U, waves, divine shudderings of viridian seas,
The peace of pastures dotted with animals, the peace of the furrows
Which alchemy prints on broad studious foreheads ;

O, sublime Trumpet full of strange piercing sounds,
Silences crossed by Worlds and by Angels :
O the Omega, the violet ray of Her Eyes !

Answer 2

Pink Floyd co-founder Syd Barrett, who passed away last month.

Answer 3

i think jerry garcia tapped into the source from where those sounds and colors originate on occasion.

Answer 4

Maynard James Keenan!!
"black and white are all I see in my infancy/ Red and yellow then came to be reaching out to me/ Let's me see"

Answer 5

Any of them known for acid usage.

Answer 6

ray charles lol