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At the Crossroads of the SensesMain MenuAt the Crossroads of the Senses – Digital CompanionVisualizing the Table of ContentsVisualizing Synaeshesia as ConstellationSynaesthesia TimelineSynaesthesia Science and Art: Introduction and Chapters 1–2Vision: Chapter 3 - SalomeMusic: Chapter 4 - ScriabinColor-Sounds & Visual Music: Chapter 5 - KandinskyColor-Forms, Sounds & Motion: Chapters 6–7 - Kupka and BelyTouch: Chapters 8–9 - RilkeThe Lower Senses: Scent, Taste & TouchEpilogue: The Afterlife of Synaesthesia – Neurodiversity, Visualizations, ConstellationsPolina Dimovae3cc21567714201b2dd4d0a2c7acf46b8dd6ea1c
1media/Белый, Линия жизни, 266_1.jpg2018-10-04T02:30:09-07:00Polina Dimovae3cc21567714201b2dd4d0a2c7acf46b8dd6ea1cColor-Forms, Sounds & Motion: Chapters 6–7 - Kupka and Bely60image_header8577712024-12-15T13:31:19-08:00Polina Dimovae3cc21567714201b2dd4d0a2c7acf46b8dd6ea1c
12019-06-06T06:47:37-07:00Polina Dimovae3cc21567714201b2dd4d0a2c7acf46b8dd6ea1cDH 8.12. Auguste Rodin, "The Inner Voice," 189612Auguste Rodin, "Inner Voice" (La Voix intérieure), plaster, Musée Rodin, 1896media/Inner Voice-Large.jpgplain2024-08-24T14:20:12-07:00Polina Dimovae3cc21567714201b2dd4d0a2c7acf46b8dd6ea1c
12024-12-09T20:02:18-08:00Polina Dimovae3cc21567714201b2dd4d0a2c7acf46b8dd6ea1cRichard Strauss, Salome - Op. 54, 1905. Click the Annotations Button below the full score for Music Examples 1–5.10Click 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 – Jokanaanfull2024-12-19T15:42:05-08:00Polina Dimovae3cc21567714201b2dd4d0a2c7acf46b8dd6ea1c
1media/Rodiin, La-Beaute_thumb.jpg2023-06-09T13:47:46-07:00Polina Dimovae3cc21567714201b2dd4d0a2c7acf46b8dd6ea1cDH 8.11. Auguste Rodin, “The Beauty” (La Beauté), 1890s9Rodin's illustration for Charles Baudelaire's "The Beauty" is another adaptation of Rodin's "Inner Voice."media/Rodiin, La-Beaute.jpgplain2024-12-10T12:48:50-08:00Polina Dimovae3cc21567714201b2dd4d0a2c7acf46b8dd6ea1c
1media/IMG_6694_thumb.jpeg2024-12-12T19:01:45-08:00Polina Dimovae3cc21567714201b2dd4d0a2c7acf46b8dd6ea1cDH 6.3a. František Kupka, “Amorpha: Fugue in Two Colors,” 19125Oil in canvas, 211 x 220 cm, National Gallery Prague. Photo by the author, Kupka, Pioneer of Abstraction, Grand Palais, Paris 2018media/IMG_6694.jpegplain2024-12-12T19:26:54-08:00Polina Dimovae3cc21567714201b2dd4d0a2c7acf46b8dd6ea1c
1media/IMG_6686 1_thumb.JPG2024-12-05T19:28:43-08:00Polina Dimovae3cc21567714201b2dd4d0a2c7acf46b8dd6ea1cDH 6.3. František Kupka, “Amorpha: Fugue in Two Colors II," 1910-115Oil on Canvas, 129.5 × 84.8 cm, Cleveland Museum of Art. Photo by the author, Kupka, Pioneer of Abstraction, Grand Palais, Paris 2018media/IMG_6686 1.JPGplain2024-12-12T19:27:45-08:00Polina Dimovae3cc21567714201b2dd4d0a2c7acf46b8dd6ea1c
12018-10-04T03:36:08-07:00Polina Dimovae3cc21567714201b2dd4d0a2c7acf46b8dd6ea1cScriabin, “Prometheus: The Poem of Fire,” 1909-10. Click on the Annotations Button for Music Examples 7-9.5In 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.full2024-12-19T15:50:10-08:00Polina Dimovae3cc21567714201b2dd4d0a2c7acf46b8dd6ea1c
1media/DH 3.13. Gustave_Moreau’s_Salome8_thumb.jpg2024-11-30T21:03:56-08:00Polina Dimovae3cc21567714201b2dd4d0a2c7acf46b8dd6ea1cDH 3.13. Gustave Moreau, "Salomé Dancing before Herod," 1874-765The 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.media/DH 3.13. Gustave_Moreau’s_Salome8.jpgplain2024-11-30T21:10:13-08:00Polina Dimovae3cc21567714201b2dd4d0a2c7acf46b8dd6ea1c
1media/39757491491_e4d132f831_k_thumb.jpg2024-12-02T20:22:20-08:00Polina Dimovae3cc21567714201b2dd4d0a2c7acf46b8dd6ea1cDH 3.3a. "Dance of Salome," Rouen Cathedral Notre-Dame, ca. 1240-12504Rouen, Cathedral Notre-Dame, left portal of the west facade, tympanum, lower register. CC license. Photo by Markus Schlichtmedia/39757491491_e4d132f831_k.jpgplain2024-12-03T11:16:03-08:00Polina Dimovae3cc21567714201b2dd4d0a2c7acf46b8dd6ea1c
12018-10-04T03:43:21-07:00Polina Dimovae3cc21567714201b2dd4d0a2c7acf46b8dd6ea1cAlfred Schnittke, “Yellow Sound,” 1974/19844Alfred 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.plain2024-12-10T11:51:56-08:00Polina Dimovae3cc21567714201b2dd4d0a2c7acf46b8dd6ea1c
12018-10-04T03:50:47-07:00Polina Dimovae3cc21567714201b2dd4d0a2c7acf46b8dd6ea1cAlfred Schnittke, “Yellow Sound,” 1974 (1/3)4Alfred Schnittke (1934-1998): Yellow Sound, stage composition for pantomime, instrumental ensemble, soprano and mixed chorus, after Vassily Kandinsky ...plain2024-12-10T01:09:08-08:00Polina Dimovae3cc21567714201b2dd4d0a2c7acf46b8dd6ea1c
1media/DH 8.1. Rilke, Primal Sound Drawing, 1659237-maximum_thumb.jpg2024-12-10T12:04:32-08:00Polina Dimovae3cc21567714201b2dd4d0a2c7acf46b8dd6ea1cDH 8.1. Rainer Maria Rilke. Drawing for “Primal Sound,” 19194Pencil 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.media/DH 8.1. Rilke, Primal Sound Drawing, 1659237-maximum.jpgplain2024-12-10T17:59:02-08:00Polina Dimovae3cc21567714201b2dd4d0a2c7acf46b8dd6ea1c
12018-10-04T04:31:20-07:00Polina Dimovae3cc21567714201b2dd4d0a2c7acf46b8dd6ea1cWassily Kandinsky, Improvisation 27 ("Garden of Love II"), 19123Wassily Kandinsky, Improvisation 27 (Garden of Love II), oil on canvas, 1912media/Kandinsky_Improvisation27-reduced.jpgplain2019-06-07T01:48:23-07:00Polina Dimovae3cc21567714201b2dd4d0a2c7acf46b8dd6ea1c
1media/Screenshot 2024-12-03 at 5.02.52 PM_red_thumb.jpg2024-12-03T16:53:03-08:00Polina Dimovae3cc21567714201b2dd4d0a2c7acf46b8dd6ea1cDH 3.2a. Alice Guszalewicz as Salome3Published in Horst Schroeder, "Alice in Wildeland" (Braunschweig, 1994), p. 33. Originally published in "Bühne und Welt" 9 (1907), p. 444.media/Screenshot 2024-12-03 at 5.02.52 PM_red.jpgplain2024-12-03T17:18:21-08:00Polina Dimovae3cc21567714201b2dd4d0a2c7acf46b8dd6ea1c
1media/oscar-wilde-in-salome-costume-f84c14_thumb.jpg2024-12-03T01:03:52-08:00Polina Dimovae3cc21567714201b2dd4d0a2c7acf46b8dd6ea1cDH 3.1. Alice Guszalewicz as Salome, or Wilde as Salome?2Alice 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 Commonsmedia/oscar-wilde-in-salome-costume-f84c14.jpgplain2024-12-03T01:04:17-08:00Polina Dimovae3cc21567714201b2dd4d0a2c7acf46b8dd6ea1c
12018-10-04T03:39:54-07:00Polina Dimovae3cc21567714201b2dd4d0a2c7acf46b8dd6ea1cArnold Schoenberg (1874-1951): Die Gluckliche Hand (full)1Robert Craft: Conductor. The Simon Joly Chorus. Philarmonia Orchestra. Koch International Classics. 2001.plain2018-10-04T03:39:54-07:00Polina Dimovae3cc21567714201b2dd4d0a2c7acf46b8dd6ea1c
12018-10-04T03:43:19-07:00Polina Dimovae3cc21567714201b2dd4d0a2c7acf46b8dd6ea1cMussorgsky Kandinsky1Video-Remake der Bühneninszenierung von "Bilder einer Ausstellung", die Kandinsky 1928 in Dessau realisierte. Die originalen Entwürfe für die ...plain2018-10-04T03:43:19-07:00Polina Dimovae3cc21567714201b2dd4d0a2c7acf46b8dd6ea1c
1media/Screenshot 2024-12-03 at 5.02.14 PM_thumb.png2024-12-03T16:56:03-08:00Polina Dimovae3cc21567714201b2dd4d0a2c7acf46b8dd6ea1cDH 3.2b. Alice Guszalewicz as Salome1Published in Horst Schroeder, "Alice in Wildeland" (Braunschweig, 1994), p. 29.media/Screenshot 2024-12-03 at 5.02.14 PM.pngplain2024-12-03T16:56:03-08:00Polina Dimovae3cc21567714201b2dd4d0a2c7acf46b8dd6ea1c
1media/8.12a. Inner Voice_IMG_0626_2_thumb.jpg2024-12-10T17:30:23-08:00Polina Dimovae3cc21567714201b2dd4d0a2c7acf46b8dd6ea1cDH 8.12a. Auguste Rodin, "The Inner Voice," 18961Plaster, 147 x 76 x 55 cm, "Meditation or the Inner Voice," Musée Rodin. Photo by the authormedia/8.12a. Inner Voice_IMG_0626_2.jpgplain2024-12-10T17:30:23-08:00Polina Dimovae3cc21567714201b2dd4d0a2c7acf46b8dd6ea1c