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Spatial evocations of sounds.

Heavy plate reverb and heavy shimmer reverb make me think of places, both for different reasons even though they are in principle only different by use of pitch-shifting in the latter. Plate puts me in a very "agoraphobic" (just like people say claustrophobic regardless of whether they like the tight space in question or not) place mentally: canyons and fields, staring at sunsets. Shimmer is more like floating cities and flying through clouds. Synth choirs with moderate amounts of any tasteful reverb has the same effect on me, so long as they aren't analog choirs.
Spring reverb would make me think of being in damp caves where water is dripping from the ceiling if it didn't already make me think of 50s country music.
 

CupofJoe

Myth Weaver
It seems like a flavour of synesthesia. I have a Tibetan Singing bowel and I can "see" that sound as a yellow flame...
 
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