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08.08.2016 OuLiPo

ambigram-oulipo-by-basile-morin

The journey taken by memento along the rollercoaster of language – dancing letters, the language of birds – includes a detour to OuLiPo.

08.05.2016 The fan

La robe Jaune (James Tissot, 1836-1902), Musée d'Orsay

The Eureka moment first came when man watched a bird’s wings flapping in the air.

07.29.2016 Cosmic music (II)

Karlheinz Stockhausen, 1980, par Claude Truong-Ngoc (© Claude_Truong-Ngoc)

The mystic composer contemplates the possibilities of a “world music” of the future.

07.25.2016 Cosmic music (I)

Karlheinz Stockhausen à l'université d'été de Darmstadt, en Allemagne (probablement en 1957).

The founders of diptyque held Karlheinz Stockhausen in high esteem and went to all his Paris concerts.

07.22.2016 Bulb bubble

Le triomphe de Flore dans le char de la Fortune, vers 1640, par Hendrik Gerritsz. Pot (vers 1580–1657)

The speculative bubble caused by tulips in 1637 has the experts split in two camps.

07.18.2016 SATOR

Carré SATOR

he ink that has been spilt on this topic so far in scholarly, theological and mystical squabbles is equivalent to a thousand years of monsoons on a postage stamp.

07.15.2016 Black Narcissus

le-narcisse-noir

The title of the film comes from the name of the 1911 perfume Black Narcissus by the House of Caron.

07.11.2016 the tuberose

gravures botanique Rousseau - 137 polyanthes tuberosa - polyanthe tubereuse

The fragrant scent of tuberose spreads its renown.

07.08.2016 Duvelleroy

Métier d'éventailliste - montage et encollage (organza)

The oldest fan-making specialists in France and heirs to a long tradition in the field, Duvelleroy was recognised by the French nation as a Living Heritage company.

07.01.2016 Pelleas…

Mary Garden interprétant Mélisande, photographiée probablement à New York (Davis & Eickmeyer)

diptyque is the official partner of the Aix Festival 2016, which opening opera is Pelleas and Melisande by Claude Debussy.

06.24.2016 Soundscape

BC-Soundscape-1024x802 [Une]

Canadian musician and theorist Schafer launched his soundscape studies with harmonious acoustic ecology as the end goal.

06.17.2016 Notes and signs

Sports et divertissements, partition imagée d’Erik Satie (1886-1925)

Composers never stopped generating graphic flourishes and signs.

06.10.2016 Magellan’s voyage

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Magellan’s armada opened the seas to a new world era.

06.06.2016 Solid perfumes

pattern-concrete-diptyque

Perfumes in liquid form have become so commonplace these days that we forget how things were done when it came to distilling alcoholic solutions.

05.27.2016 Desmond’s landscapes: Asia

Dessin de Desmond Knox-Leet

An artist at home, Desmond Knox-Leet filled his notebooks with sketches and travel commentaries.

05.16.2016 Desmond’s landscapes: Mediterranean world

Dessin de Desmond Knox-Leet: Assise

An artist at home, Desmond Knox-Leet filled his notebooks with sketches and travel commentaries.

05.09.2016 Voyage around my room

Xavier de Maistre (1763-1852), gravure de Cyprien Jacquemin

« So that’s how come I’m learning lessons about philosophy and humanity from my servant and my dog during my voyage. » (Xavier de Maistre)

05.06.2016 Desmond’s landscapes: France

Dessin de Desmond Knox-Leet: jardin de Provence

Wherever Desmond Knox-Leet went, he drew. An artist at home, he filled his notebooks with sketches and travel commentaries.

05.02.2016 Voyages

Carnets de Desmond

As spring comes round again, diptyque puts journeys travelling centre stage.

04.18.2016 Sounds in colors

David Hockney - “Snails Pace with Vari-Lites.” (Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of Nan Tucker McEvoy © 1995-96, David Hockney 2003.31A-X Smithsonian American Art Museum 3rd Floor, East Wing)

Some exemples of great synaesthetic composers: their ears had eyes!

03.31.2016 Art Paris Art Fair 2016

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diptyque is an official partner of Art Paris Art Fair 2016.

03.28.2016 Fraternal senses

Several circles, 1926 (Wassily Kandinsky 1866-1944)

Synaesthesia shows itself when one stimulus makes several sensory pathways react simultaneously and always identically.

03.24.2016 « The Orange Blind »

The Orange Blind (1929) by Francis Campbell Cadell (Scottish, 1884-1937)

memento is a magazine based on the logic of harmonics…

03.17.2016 Manual of soap

Coalescence IV  (oil on linen) © Matthew Johnson (Olsen Irwin Gallery)

The vast history of soap spans several eras, and probably all the continents and all cultures.

03.07.2016 A seer’s vowels

Manuscrit du poème "Voyelles" d'Arthur Rimbaud

«A black, E white, I red, U green, O blue: vowels, » is a verse of typical synaesthetic association, made by a poet who was seer.

02.22.2016 Inside a woman’s bag

© Nick Veasey

A woman’s bag may be a fashion accessory, but it has nothing of the accessory about it.

02.18.2016 Salutary rebus

Sainte-Chapelle du Palais, Paris (vitrail, détail)

The stained glass windows of the Gothic cathedrals (from the 12th century) are the most accomplished witnesses of how the Christian story was illuminated by images.

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