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Here, Rectangles of various widths represent note duration. For instance, a whole note is a perfect square. It is twice as wide as a half note, which is twice as wide as a quarter note, which is twice as wide as an eighth note, etc.
Musical pitch has a corresponding color. Scientists equated audible frequencies (hertz) with color wavelength 
(nanometers/angstroms). For instance, a D note is Blue and a C note is Green. By combining the size of each rectangle with a specific color, one has a musical note. By arranging the rectangles in a linear form, one creates a song. It is music reflected in art. It is art that one could use to play music. It is a new language.
The songs that I like to listen to the most, look the best. Other people have the same reaction to cNOTEs. This often leads to the bigger questions: What is the difference between painting and music? Art and science? Science and religion?
I don’t know. However, I do know that I can turn any song into visual art. Custom cNotes are perfect for homes and offices. They are ideal gifts for weddings, anniversaries, birthdays and other occasions, even for people who have everything. For instance, make a cNote of the #1 song on your spouse’s date of birth or your friend’s graduation day.
Positively 4th Street/ Bob Dylan
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For more information about cNotes or the the custom process, please me at erik@cNoteArt.com or (617) 834-9600. Thank you for your time and I look forward to hearing from you.
Sincerely,
Erik
Erik Rosen was born in Monticello, New York. He has an AB from Colgate University; a JD and MA Journalism from Syracuse University/ The Newhouse School; and an MBA
from Yale University. He has worked as a Lawyer,
Investment Banker and Management Consultant.
Last year, I had my second Stem Cell Transplant for Stage IV Hodgkin's Lymphoma. It was unpleasant. I was locked in a sterile room for 35 days. I had no immune system. My lungs were filled with fluid and my kidneys were teetering on failure. At one of my lowest points, something happened to me. It could have been because of my medical condition or the magic morphine machine. I’m not sure, but the experience haunts me.
I do not know why this happened to me. I never intended to turn music into images. At NYC’s Memorial Sloan Kettering, I saw The Velvet Underground’s Rock and Roll reflected against the walls of my eighth floor clean room. One song after another burst out of the iPod dock that I received a few days earlier for my birthday. The notes echoed against the white masonry in an opiate-laden kaleidoscope of colors. And it was all right.
Since that experience, I learned that other people also have sensory misfires. Some people can taste sound or feel odors. Some people can see pain or smell colors. It is a condition known as Synesthesia.
I created a platform, the “cNOTE,” to express my synesthetic experience. The cNOTE is a musical image. One means of creating a cNOTE is the “Rectangle Method.” I believe it is the most honest reflection of my synesthesia. The Rectangle Method achieves a superior aesthetic by redefining the two components of a musical note: duration and pitch.
