05.25.2018 Listening in colour Crossed paths « the colour of sound – its timbre – is the vast territory of music » (Arnold Schoenberg)
04.23.2018 The minimalist music Crossed paths “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 Along the way 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 Crossed paths Now aged 80, La Monte Young stands firmly on the fringes of the commercial world and continues to create music.
08.22.2016 Mesostics Crossed paths 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) Along the way The mystic composer contemplates the possibilities of a “world music” of the future.
07.25.2016 Cosmic music (I) Along the way The founders of diptyque held Karlheinz Stockhausen in high esteem and went to all his Paris concerts.
06.17.2016 Notes and signs Along the way Composers never stopped generating graphic flourishes and signs.
04.18.2016 Sounds in colors Along the way Some exemples of great synaesthetic composers: their ears had eyes!
02.08.2016 “Rose-fever” Along the way Claude Debussy’s opera “Pelléas et Melisande” would give the “rose-fever” to writer Marcel Proust.
01.25.2016 Stockhausen weekend Along the way Composer Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928-2007) was dear to the heart of the founders of diptyque.
01.07.2016 Symphony for one man alone Along the way 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 Along the way “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 Along the way 4’33’’ is a three-movement musical composition by John Cage without a note or even a sound…
12.18.2014 Karlheinz Stockhausen Along the way The diptyque’s founders would never miss a concert of the Maestro in Paris…