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05.25.2018 Listening in colour

Arnold Schönberg - Der rote Blick (1910) (probablement un autoportrait du compositeur)
Crossed paths

« the colour of sound – its timbre – is the vast territory of music » (Arnold Schoenberg)

04.23.2018 The minimalist music

Quelques compositeurs du courant minimaliste (de gauche à droite) : Steve Reich, Philip Glass, John Adams, Terry Riley, Michael Nyman, et Arvo Pärt.
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

Brian Eno (photographie de Sølve Sundsbø)
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

La Monte Young
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

John Cage - 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)

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

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).
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

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

Composers never stopped generating graphic flourishes and signs.

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)
Along the way

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

02.08.2016 “Rose-fever”

"Pelleas et Melisande", 1927 (Erté, 1892-1990) (© 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS) New York)
Along the way

Claude Debussy’s opera “Pelléas et Melisande” would give the “rose-fever” to writer Marcel Proust.

01.25.2016 Stockhausen weekend

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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

En 1966, Maurice Béjart a chorégraphié la Symphonie pour un homme seul au Palais des Papes au Festival d'Avignon.
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

Nature-morte-au-vase-Wan-Li-de-Bosschaert-l’Ancien
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

John Cage (1912-1992) en 1988.
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

Karlheinz Stockhausen & Rikrit Tiravanija - Oktophonie
Along the way

The diptyque’s founders would never miss a concert of the Maestro in Paris…

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