Thingesthesia

Thingesthesia is a hypothetical phenomena which may occur when the sense channels of sight and/or somatic feeling are coupled with the sound of music that has The Thing. Thingesthesia has not been empirically tested, but is is suspected that a sufficiently coterminous visualizer in the case of the sight sense, and a sufficiently coterminous sound wave vibration transmission to the body, would result in coupling of the senses, which would make The Thing, as well as the composer's/producer's artistic intention more obvious and aligned with their own phenomenology of the song.

A thingesthesia visualizer would likely need to be very precise and fully aligned with the music, and include visualization elements of all sounds, including the ones likely to go unnoticed at first listen without it. Such a visualizer might have some number of arbitrary ways to map the sonic elements one to one, allowing the artist to make a choice that best reflects their own emotional responses or conceptualizations of the musical choices, though there may plausibly be an ideal way to have the sonic sense data translated. Whether a coterminous visualizer would be arbitrary or have an ideal form would likely require empirical testing.

A thingesthesia somatic transmitter would likely be less arbitrary, due to the simple fact that sound, being vibrations in the air, can vibrate parts of the human body in sync with it. It may be the case that a full translation of every part of the sonic sense of the music into the the somatic sense would require a finer way to transmit smaller vibrations, such as having a listener wear a suit that could amplify the sounds waves reverberating in the body.

Thingesthesia if actualized may result in significantly easier processing of how music works, due to having one or two extra sense channels processing the music. One of the main ways Thingesthesia could be used is to make it more likely for the listener to catch finer details and intentions, and be able to more easily recognize The Thing. Thingesthesia would also likely result in significant hedonic enhancement of music.