05.25.2018 Listening in colour
« the colour of sound – its timbre – is the vast territory of music » (Arnold Schoenberg)
« the colour of sound – its timbre – is the vast territory of music » (Arnold Schoenberg)
“The concept of “minimal music” evolved during the Seventies, but it originated in the early Sixties…” (Jean-Yves Bosseur)
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.
Now aged 80, La Monte Young stands firmly on the fringes of the commercial world and continues to create music.
It was American writer and philosopher Norman O. Brown who recommended that John Cage use this poetic technique of mesostics.
The mystic composer contemplates the possibilities of a “world music” of the future.
The founders of diptyque held Karlheinz Stockhausen in high esteem and went to all his Paris concerts.
Composers never stopped generating graphic flourishes and signs.
Some exemples of great synaesthetic composers: their ears had eyes!
Claude Debussy’s opera “Pelléas et Melisande” would give the “rose-fever” to writer Marcel Proust.
Composer Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928-2007) was dear to the heart of the founders of diptyque.
In the first row of the orchestra at the concert hall, the « inventor » of concrete music slips behind a mixing desk with rotating potentiometers…
“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.
4’33’’ is a three-movement musical composition by John Cage without a note or even a sound…
The diptyque’s founders would never miss a concert of the Maestro in Paris…