05.25.2018 Listening in colour
« the colour of sound – its timbre – is the vast territory of music » (Arnold Schoenberg)
04.23.2018 The minimalist music
“The concept of “minimal music” evolved during the Seventies, but it originated in the early Sixties…” (Jean-Yves Bosseur)
01.23.2017 Eno’s nose
Eno became very interested in both natural and artificial scents during his time at Art College. His reflexions on this subject sheds light on his conceptual understanding and experimental approach of music as an artist.
12.05.2016 A time-sound dream
Now aged 80, La Monte Young stands firmly on the fringes of the commercial world and continues to create music.
08.22.2016 Mesostics
It was American writer and philosopher Norman O. Brown who recommended that John Cage use this poetic technique of mesostics.
07.29.2016 Cosmic music (II)
The mystic composer contemplates the possibilities of a “world music” of the future.
07.25.2016 Cosmic music (I)
The founders of diptyque held Karlheinz Stockhausen in high esteem and went to all his Paris concerts.
06.17.2016 Notes and signs
Composers never stopped generating graphic flourishes and signs.
04.18.2016 Sounds in colors
Some exemples of great synaesthetic composers: their ears had eyes!
02.08.2016 “Rose-fever”
Claude Debussy’s opera “Pelléas et Melisande” would give the “rose-fever” to writer Marcel Proust.
01.25.2016 Stockhausen weekend
Composer Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928-2007) was dear to the heart of the founders of diptyque.
01.07.2016 Symphony for one man alone
In the first row of the orchestra at the concert hall, the « inventor » of concrete music slips behind a mixing desk with rotating potentiometers…
08.03.2015 Flower songs
“Mille-fleurs” means “a thousand flowers”, that is the age-old tradition of master perfumers which involves the collection of unsold flowers at the end of a season to compose a perfume.
07.23.2015 John Cage
4’33’’ is a three-movement musical composition by John Cage without a note or even a sound…
12.18.2014 Karlheinz Stockhausen
The diptyque’s founders would never miss a concert of the Maestro in Paris…