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At the Crossroads of the Senses
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At the Crossroads of the Senses – Digital Companion
Visualizing the Table of Contents
Visualizing Synaeshesia as Constellation
Synaesthesia Timeline
Synaesthesia Science and Art: Introduction and Chapters 1–2
Vision: Chapter 3 - Salome
Music: Chapter 4 - Scriabin
Color-Sounds & Visual Music: Chapter 5 - Kandinsky
Color-Forms, Sounds & Motion: Chapters 6–7 - Kupka and Bely
Touch: Chapters 8–9 - Rilke
The Lower Senses: Scent, Taste & Touch
Epilogue: The Afterlife of Synaesthesia – Neurodiversity, Visualizations, Constellations
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Music Example 2. Jochanaan’s disembodied voice-music with perfect authentic cadence in Richard Strauss’s “Salome.”
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Richard Strauss, Salome - Op. 54, 1905. Click the Annotations Button below the full score for Music Examples 1–5.
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Click the Annotations button under the full score for Music Examples 1–5. 0:00- Scene I; 5:21- Scene II; 14:24- Scene III; 40:24- Scene IV. Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Georg Solti, 1961. Birgit Nilsson – Salome; Gerhard Stolze – Herod; Grace Hoffman – Herodias; Wächter – Jokanaan
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Color-Forms, Sounds & Motion: Chapters 6–7 - Kupka and Bely
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Russian Synaesthetic Art
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Music: Chapter 4 - Scriabin
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Color-Sounds & Visual Music: Chapter 5 - Kandinsky
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Music Example 5. Salome intones, “Deine Stimme war ein Weihrauchgefäss, und wenn ich dich ansah, hörte ich geheimnissvolle Musik.” (Thy voice was an incense vessel, and when I looked on thee, I heard a strange music) followed by Jochanaan’s voice-music.
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DH 8.12. Auguste Rodin, "The Inner Voice," 1896
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Auguste Rodin, "Inner Voice" (La Voix intérieure), plaster, Musée Rodin, 1896
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Richard Strauss, Salome - Op. 54, 1905. Click the Annotations Button below the full score for Music Examples 1–5.
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Click the Annotations button under the full score for Music Examples 1–5. 0:00- Scene I; 5:21- Scene II; 14:24- Scene III; 40:24- Scene IV. Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Georg Solti, 1961. Birgit Nilsson – Salome; Gerhard Stolze – Herod; Grace Hoffman – Herodias; Wächter – Jokanaan
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DH 4.6-9. Scriabin Music Examples: The Mystic Chord and Prometheus
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Music Example 4. Salome impores Jochanaan, “Sprich mehr, Jochanaan, deine Stimme ist wie Musik in meinen Ohren” (Speak again, Jochanaan, thy voice is like music to my ears), against the Young Syrian’s distraught protestations.
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DH 8.11. Auguste Rodin, “The Beauty” (La Beauté), 1890s
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Rodin's illustration for Charles Baudelaire's "The Beauty" is another adaptation of Rodin's "Inner Voice."
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Music Example 7. Theme of the Creative Will in the Trumpets
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Music Example 1. Jochanaan’s disembodied voice-music accompanying his entrance on stage in Richard Strauss’s “Salome.”
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Music Example 3. Salome sings “Er ist schrecklich” (He is terrible) as if flirtatiously echoing Jochanaan’s orchestral theme with its signature descending perfect fourth prophetic motif.
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Music Example 2. Jochanaan’s disembodied voice-music with perfect authentic cadence in Richard Strauss’s “Salome.”
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DH 6.3. František Kupka, “Amorpha: Fugue in Two Colors II," 1910-11
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Oil on Canvas, 129.5 × 84.8 cm, Cleveland Museum of Art. Photo by the author, Kupka, Pioneer of Abstraction, Grand Palais, Paris 2018
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Scriabin, “Prometheus: The Poem of Fire,” 1909-10. Click on the Annotations Button for Music Examples 7-9.
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In February 2010, Anna Gawboy, a doctoral candidate at the Yale School of Music and scholar of Russian composer Alexander Scriabin, attempted to realize Scriabin’s dreams in her production of “Prometheus” with colored lights.
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DH 3.13. Gustave Moreau, "Salomé Dancing before Herod," 1874-76
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The Armand Hammer Collection. Gift of the Armand Hammer Foundation. Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California. Photo Credit: Robert Wedemeyer. Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International License.
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DH 6.3a. František Kupka, “Amorpha: Fugue in Two Colors,” 1912
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Oil in canvas, 211 x 220 cm, National Gallery Prague. Photo by the author, Kupka, Pioneer of Abstraction, Grand Palais, Paris 2018
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Music Example 9. Culmination and Finale of the Exposition. Theme of the Creative Will in the Piano in Fast Harmonic and Color Rhythm
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DH 3.3a. "Dance of Salome," Rouen Cathedral Notre-Dame, ca. 1240-1250
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Alfred Schnittke, “Yellow Sound,” 1974/1984
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Alfred Schnittke (1934-1998), “Yellow Sound” (“Der gelbe Klang»), a stage composition for pantomime, instrumental ensemble, soprano and mixed chorus by Wassily Kandinsky. In the USSR, the first performance with Schnittke’s music took place Tchaikovsky Hall of the Moscow Conservatory on January 6, 1984.
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Alfred Schnittke, “Yellow Sound,” 1974 (1/3)
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Alfred Schnittke (1934-1998): Yellow Sound, stage composition for pantomime, instrumental ensemble, soprano and mixed chorus, after Vassily Kandinsky ...
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DH 8.1. Rainer Maria Rilke. Drawing for “Primal Sound,” 1919
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Pencil drawing of the “world’s whole field of experience for “Primal Sound,” Rilke Archive, Bern, Switzerland., SLA-RMR-G_9, https://doi.org/10.7891/emanuscripta-52353.
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DH 3.5. Domenico Ghirlandaio, "Herod's Banquet," 1486-90
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Wassily Kandinsky, Improvisation 27 ("Garden of Love II"), 1912
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Wassily Kandinsky, Improvisation 27 (Garden of Love II), oil on canvas, 1912
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DH 3.2a. Alice Guszalewicz as Salome
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Published in Horst Schroeder, "Alice in Wildeland" (Braunschweig, 1994), p. 33. Originally published in "Bühne und Welt" 9 (1907), p. 444.
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Music Example 8. Theme of the Creative Will. First Piano Entrance
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DH 3.1. Alice Guszalewicz as Salome, or Wilde as Salome?
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Alice Guszalewicz as Salome in the Richard Strauss opera, c. 1910. Richard Ellmann misidentified this photograph in his 1987 biography as "Wilde in costume as Salome." The error was corrected in 2000. Public domain/Wikimedia Commons
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Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951): Die Gluckliche Hand (full)
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Mussorgsky Kandinsky
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DH 8.12a. Auguste Rodin, "The Inner Voice," 1896
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DH 3.4. Benozzo Gozzoli, "The Feast of Herod and the Beheading of Saint John the Baptist," 1461-62
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