‘Synaesthesia’ is a neurological condition in which some people experience one of the senses, through another. For example, great American jazz man Duke Ellington and Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, both experienced musical notes as colours.
‘Oenesthesia’ is a term coined to describe the widespread belief that people unwittingly match music to the tastes, aromas and flavours of wine. So being the scientific-minded, tennis-playing community that we are, last Saturday 22nd July, Collaroy Tennis Club set out to prove or disprove the theory that music can change the flavour of wine. And we did!
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