Anyone else with a visual experience of music?

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I don't have any form of synesthesia, but my experience of music does have a visual portion to it. For example, since I'm classically trained to read sheet music, whenever I listen to a piece for the first time, I visualize what I think the score of the piece would look like, noting key signature, time signature, etc. As well, I will always imagine some form of image (usually an animation of some sort) to go along with it, no matter what kind of piece I'm listening to,

I like to think of scenes, like in a movie, that the music will work well with or artworks that will also work well with it.

I don't think I qualify for synesthesia, either, but I felt like Could relate because there is some visual connection to how I take things in that is definitely out of the ordinary. I've often visualized scenes taking place to music but nothing really significant. However, whenever I sing staying in tune is visual for me. My family likes to sing sometimes and I can sing best when we stand in a circle facing in. With my eyes closed I can feel/see connections coming from each person if we're all reasonably in tune. As a part of the group my job is to keep my thread connected with the others and to strengthen the connection if I can. Also, when I am singing alone or trying to tune personally or with accompaniment, one other singer, et cetera, I visualize being in tune as standing solidly on a roof. Going flat is like falling off the roof and trying to get back in tune is like hanging on to the edge of the roof and climbing back up... It's much easier if I just jump and overshoot and come back. I don't know if that makes sense.

Saralicia - Yeah, that definitely makes sense to me. I experience something similar when singing in tune/harmony with others, in regards to the connections.

I understand this. This happens to me sometimes. I have synesthetic connections and associative connections, ie, I have certain associations that spring up, aside from synesthesia. Sometimes it's album covers. For one example, I only have colour/key associations with G major/E minor and E major/C# minor. These keys are blue/grey and red. I do, however, get really strong colour associations with green; it is, however, unrelated to key, but one thing that I have found is that green songs have titles that begin with the letter D, which is green to me, so the first letter of the title paints the song a certain colour. This happens with J as well (yellow/orange)... unless it is in my synesthetic color associative keys, which will overpower the grapheme synesthesia.

This probably sounds like a lot of random rambling. :/ I should probably slumber now.

Some moods from music are related to colors for me; calm is a nice dark orange for example.

Visual experience of music? of course, that's called synesthesia.

And I do have it. It is esp. strong when I'm not distracted by anything else, like in concerts, where you really can only sit and listen, well... really totally immerse yourself in the sounds.

It can be a very intense, almost mystical experience, IMHO.

I don't often go to concerts, bc of the crowds (I have agoraphobia), but I do go when it is classical music and/or soft, nostalgic music like fado. Those are magical memories that I cherish. I did go (or was strongly influenced into going) to loud, rock and/or punk music, but didn't like it. simply not my kind of crowd.

Sometimes my visual experiences with music are very vivid, but most of the time they're fairly abstract to a certain degree. If I like the song and am paying close attention to the lyrics I sometimes am able to picture full scenes and "videos" related to the song, which always involve dancing/singing/performing anthropomorphic animals. This is one of the best things about music for me. If I'm not paying any attention to the lyrics whatsoever or am not really fond of the song then I just picture colors and shapes. Not too exciting.