Check out this fascinating article on a synesthesia, a phenomenon where stimulation of one sense involuntarily induces perception in another sense.

This Swiss musician experiences tastes when she hears different intervals. Not surprisingly she has perfect pitch, which seems to be an artifact of multiple sensory cortices (auditory & taste) processing the same auditory stimulus, aka more brain power devoted towards pitch discrimination.

I didn't know that this could exist and I'm a bit envious. This puts a whole new meaning on already tasty music. So I wonder how Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, Schoenberg's dodecaphonic String Quartet No. 4 or noise music (aka no discernible intervals per se) would taste ?

I wonder how closely mapped gratifying tastes are to pleasurable sounds ... and on that note (yum!) how flexible or adaptable one's buds can be, the way you can sometimes tune your ear to something that was initially disagreeable. I'm curious also if these additional powers predispose her to certain [tonal] languages with particularly palatable pitch contours?

For me the closest I've come to synesthesia was metaphorically this time last year at my auntie's house. I could hear the sweet melodies of her owo stew beckoning my taste buds into their fragrant embrace while harmonizing my salivary glands and tongue in an exquisite anticipatory dance ... *ahem*