Sound and color are both waves that physically alter our environment, each capable of evoking the full spectrum of human emotion.
The phenomenon of synesthesia is literally the interpretation of sound as color. Synesthetes and non-synesthetes alike experience music-color association — on dancefloors, in dreams, through psychedelia, or in moments of surprise and inspiration.

Hearing Color asks the question: What does it mean to view sound through color instead of genre, and to explore every color in a contemporary sonic palette? What does colorful music sound like?

James Axon looks to the most cosmic, emotive, and lush varieties of dance music past and present for answers, drawing from the sounds of deep house, dreamy techno, italo, balearic, psychedelic disco, ambient, IDM and the in-between. Sometimes it’s a solo mission, and other times like minded guests join in the musical inquiry.

For this episode of Hearing Color, James Axon invites special guest Hiver.

As said by the so missed Juno Plus: “The middle ground between US and European electronic music iis where the work of Hiver exists.” They’ve been defining their aesthetic path, driven by melodic and distant elements slowly evolving in a mould of linear rhythms. Their debut EP “A Day” on Vidab Records has been followed by the highly acclaimed “Blue Aconite” EP released via Curle Recordings and including a Tobias remix. Thanks to this release, Hiver’s name started to be recognized worldwide. Clubs and festival promoters soon started taking note of their works, as testified by their shows at Panorama bar, Circoloco, Printworks, Dimensions Festival, Polifonic, ADE, Oval Space, tresor, and tours in Asia, US, South America.

Based in Milan, they have issued several releases on the likes of Curle, Luke Hess’s Deeplabs, Polifonic. In 2019 Peggy Gou featured a Hiver track for her compilation on !K7, followed by Hiver EPs on her GUDU label with “Wave Sliding” in 2022 and “Dream Universe” in 2024, a record that both marks and celebrates Hiver’s 10 years of operation.