To hear a note or see a coloured shape, the note has its place in a piece of music or is perhaps a birdsong, the coloured shape in a picture or a certain vista, but apart from their function is being part of some larger synthesis which is already more than half-way to being an idea, they also have a individual character, infinitely particular. That infinite particularity is such through its evocative potentialities, through the hints of character that it evokes, which can be felt as simultaneously personal and general, at least for those whose culture overlaps with yours. these evocative associations are structured say in a tree-like way, this association giving rise to that one etc., and spreading out in a synesthesia. in other words they can be resolved into 'tasting notes'. You could say that what makes a quale what it is is its tasting notes. So then is the quale anything more than those tasting notes? If not then doesn't it reduce to something which is ultimately not made of qualia at all. The tasting notes are a tree every node of which is a quale; the root of the tree is in immediate presence but the note are in re-presentation but otherwise they are not different. So you only need the tree and the immediacy of the root, which is itself a kind of quale, but of an existential kind, neutral to sense.