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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-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
12024-11-30T15:06:56-08:00Polina Dimovae3cc21567714201b2dd4d0a2c7acf46b8dd6ea1cAt the Crossroads of the Senses – Digital Companion (old)Polina Dimova83plain8578392025-03-08T23:16:17-08:00Polina Dimovae3cc21567714201b2dd4d0a2c7acf46b8dd6ea1c
12025-03-08T22:49:37-08:00Polina Dimovae3cc21567714201b2dd4d0a2c7acf46b8dd6ea1cAt the Crossroads of the Senses – Digital CompanionPolina Dimova17plain2025-06-29T06:19:42-07:00Polina Dimovae3cc21567714201b2dd4d0a2c7acf46b8dd6ea1c
1media/DH 5.3. Thought-Forms_Gounod_Music_SKM_458e23031313491_thumb.jpg2024-12-09T19:00:14-08:00Polina Dimovae3cc21567714201b2dd4d0a2c7acf46b8dd6ea1cDH 5.3. Annie Besant, “The Music of Charles Gounod,” Thought-Forms, 19053Annie Besant and Charles Webster Leadbeater, “Thought Forms,” 1905media/DH 5.3. Thought-Forms_Gounod_Music_SKM_458e23031313491.jpgplain2025-01-03T12:35:04-08:00Polina Dimovae3cc21567714201b2dd4d0a2c7acf46b8dd6ea1c
1media/DH 5.3a. Wagner_Music_SKM_458e23031313500 copy_thumb.jpeg2024-12-09T18:56:50-08:00Polina Dimovae3cc21567714201b2dd4d0a2c7acf46b8dd6ea1cDH 5.3a. Annie Besant, “The Music of Richard Wagner,” Thought-Forms, 19052Annie Besant and Charles Webster Leadbeater, “Thought Forms,” 1905media/DH 5.3a. Wagner_Music_SKM_458e23031313500 copy.jpegplain2025-01-03T12:34:26-08:00Polina Dimovae3cc21567714201b2dd4d0a2c7acf46b8dd6ea1c
1media/Form Constants_1_thumb.JPG2025-01-03T13:00:00-08:00Polina Dimovae3cc21567714201b2dd4d0a2c7acf46b8dd6ea1cDH 5.4. Heinrich Klüver, “Form Constants,” 19263Heinrich Klüver’s Form Constants, pen and ink drawing on paper, in Mardi J. Horowitz, 1970, Image Formation and Cognition. NY: Appleton Century Crofts, p. 213.media/Form Constants_1.JPGplain2025-01-03T13:04:58-08:00Polina Dimovae3cc21567714201b2dd4d0a2c7acf46b8dd6ea1c
1media/DH 5.5. Kandinsky_Singer_AMAM_thumb.jpeg2024-12-07T15:46:58-08:00Polina Dimovae3cc21567714201b2dd4d0a2c7acf46b8dd6ea1cDH 5.5. Wassily Kandinsky, “Singer,” 19031Color woodcut, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, Ohiomedia/DH 5.5. Kandinsky_Singer_AMAM.jpegplain2024-12-07T15:46:58-08:00Polina Dimovae3cc21567714201b2dd4d0a2c7acf46b8dd6ea1c
1media/DH 5.6. Kandinaky, Impression III, IMG_2668 copy_thumb.jpeg2024-12-07T15:50:50-08:00Polina Dimovae3cc21567714201b2dd4d0a2c7acf46b8dd6ea1cDH 5.6. Wassily Kandinsky, “Impression III (Concert),” 19113Oil on canvas, 30.5 × 39.4" (77.5 × 100.0 cm), Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich. Photo by the authormedia/DH 5.6. Kandinaky, Impression III, IMG_2668 copy.jpegplain2024-12-07T15:51:41-08:00Polina Dimovae3cc21567714201b2dd4d0a2c7acf46b8dd6ea1c
12024-12-07T17:20:15-08:00Polina Dimovae3cc21567714201b2dd4d0a2c7acf46b8dd6ea1cDH 5.7k. Wassily Kandinsky, “Klänge (Sounds),” 19133Museum of Modern Art, New York, Thumbnail Gallery of Kandinsky’s art bookplain2024-12-07T17:27:02-08:00Polina Dimovae3cc21567714201b2dd4d0a2c7acf46b8dd6ea1c
1media/Hills_Vignette_IMG_1211_thumb.jpeg2024-12-07T15:12:45-08:00Polina Dimovae3cc21567714201b2dd4d0a2c7acf46b8dd6ea1cDH 5.7. Wassily Kandinsky, vignette next to “Hills,” 19113Woodcut from Wassily Kandinsky, “Klänge,” 1913, composition (irreg.): 3 7/8 x 1 5/8" (9.9 x 4.1 cm); page: 11 1/16 x 10 7/8" (28.1 x 27.7 cm), Museum of Modern Art, New Yorkmedia/Hills_Vignette_IMG_1211.jpegplain2024-12-07T15:27:09-08:00Polina Dimovae3cc21567714201b2dd4d0a2c7acf46b8dd6ea1c
1media/DH 5.8_Sehen_IMG_1228_thumb.jpeg2024-12-07T17:33:18-08:00Polina Dimovae3cc21567714201b2dd4d0a2c7acf46b8dd6ea1cDH 5.8. Wassily Kandinsky, “See,” 19131Woodcut, from Wassily Kandinsky, “Klänge,” 1913, composition (irreg.): 3 1/16 x 2 15/16" (7.8 x 7.4 cm); page: 11 1/16 x 10 7/8" (28.1 x 27.7 cm), Museum of Modern Art, New Yorkmedia/DH 5.8_Sehen_IMG_1228.jpegplain2024-12-07T17:33:18-08:00Polina Dimovae3cc21567714201b2dd4d0a2c7acf46b8dd6ea1c
1media/DH 5.9a. Kandinsky_Sehen_Lyrical_Spread_IMG_0269 2IMG_0269_thumb.jpeg2024-12-07T17:35:07-08:00Polina Dimovae3cc21567714201b2dd4d0a2c7acf46b8dd6ea1cDH 5.8a. Wassily Kandinsky, “See,” p. 2 and “Lyrical,” 19132Color woodcut, from Wassily Kandinsky, “Klänge,” 1913, Ryerson and Burnham Libraries, Art Institute of Chicago. Photo by the authormedia/DH 5.9a. Kandinsky_Sehen_Lyrical_Spread_IMG_0269 2IMG_0269.jpegplain2024-12-07T17:35:29-08:00Polina Dimovae3cc21567714201b2dd4d0a2c7acf46b8dd6ea1c
1media/DH 5.. Kandinsky_IMG_0269_thumb.jpeg2024-12-07T16:02:13-08:00Polina Dimovae3cc21567714201b2dd4d0a2c7acf46b8dd6ea1cDH 5.9. Wassily Kandinsky, “Lyrical,” 19111Color woodcut, from Wassily Kandinsky, “Klänge,” 1913, 5 13/16 x 8 9/16" (14.8 x 21.7 cm), Ryerson and Burnham Libraries, Art Institute of Chicago. Photo by the authormedia/DH 5.. Kandinsky_IMG_0269.jpegplain2024-12-07T16:02:13-08:00Polina Dimovae3cc21567714201b2dd4d0a2c7acf46b8dd6ea1c
1media/DH 5.10. Kndinsky_Two_Women_Moonlight_IMG_1210_thumb.jpeg2024-12-07T15:23:07-08:00Polina Dimovae3cc21567714201b2dd4d0a2c7acf46b8dd6ea1cDH 5.10. Wassily Kandinsky, “Two Women in Moonlit Landscape,” 19112Color woodcut from Wassily Kandinsky, “Klänge,” 1913, composition: 3 7/16 x 4 11/16" (8.8 x 11.9 cm); page: 11 1/16 x 10 7/8" (28.1 x 27.7 cm), Museum of Modern Art, New Yorkmedia/DH 5.10. Kndinsky_Two_Women_Moonlight_IMG_1210.jpegplain2024-12-07T15:24:15-08:00Polina Dimovae3cc21567714201b2dd4d0a2c7acf46b8dd6ea1c
1media/IMG_1231_thumb.png2024-12-07T22:22:39-08:00Polina Dimovae3cc21567714201b2dd4d0a2c7acf46b8dd6ea1cDH 5.11. Wassily Kandinsky, “Light Picture,” 19131Oil on canvas, 30.6 × 39.4" (77.8 × 100.2 cm), Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New Yorkmedia/IMG_1231.pngplain2024-12-07T22:22:40-08:00Polina Dimovae3cc21567714201b2dd4d0a2c7acf46b8dd6ea1c
1media/Kandinsky AIC pen and ink JT EDIT_thumb.jpg2024-12-07T18:28:55-08:00Polina Dimovae3cc21567714201b2dd4d0a2c7acf46b8dd6ea1cDH 5.12. Wassily Kandinsky, Diagram 17 from “Point and Line to Plane,” 19262Woodcut, Wassily Kandinsky, “Point and Line to Plane,” diagram 17, 1926, Ryerson and Burnham Libraries, Art Institute of Chicago. Photo by the authormedia/Kandinsky AIC pen and ink JT EDIT.jpgplain2024-12-07T18:29:47-08:00Polina Dimovae3cc21567714201b2dd4d0a2c7acf46b8dd6ea1c
1media/DH 5.13. Kandinsky_Survey_IMG_1657_thumb.jpeg2024-12-07T16:30:54-08:00Polina Dimovae3cc21567714201b2dd4d0a2c7acf46b8dd6ea1cDH 5.13. Wassily Kandinsky, Bauhaus Synaesthesia Survey, 1922-23(?)3Bauhaus Archive, Berlin. Photo by the authormedia/DH 5.13. Kandinsky_Survey_IMG_1657.jpegplain2024-12-07T22:45:43-08:00Polina Dimovae3cc21567714201b2dd4d0a2c7acf46b8dd6ea1c
1media/IMG_1222_thumb.jpeg2024-12-07T17:06:55-08:00Polina Dimovae3cc21567714201b2dd4d0a2c7acf46b8dd6ea1cDH 5.15.1. Wassily Kandinsky, “Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony (first measure),” 19261Wassily Kandinsky, music-to-point translation, “Point and Line to Plane,” ill. 11, 1928. Public domainmedia/IMG_1222.jpegplain2024-12-07T17:06:56-08:00Polina Dimovae3cc21567714201b2dd4d0a2c7acf46b8dd6ea1c
1media/IMG_1223_thumb.jpeg2024-12-07T17:08:34-08:00Polina Dimovae3cc21567714201b2dd4d0a2c7acf46b8dd6ea1cDH 5.15.2. Wassily Kandinsky, “Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony,” 19261Wassily Kandinsky, music-to-point translation, “Point and Line to Plane,” ill. 11, 1928. Public domainmedia/IMG_1223.jpegplain2024-12-07T17:08:34-08:00Polina Dimovae3cc21567714201b2dd4d0a2c7acf46b8dd6ea1c
1media/IMG_1224_thumb.jpeg2024-12-07T17:10:15-08:00Polina Dimovae3cc21567714201b2dd4d0a2c7acf46b8dd6ea1cDH 5.15.3. Wassily Kandinsky, “Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony (second theme),” 19261Wassily Kandinsky, music-to-point translation, “Point and Line to Plane,” ill. 11, 1928. Public domainmedia/IMG_1224.jpegplain2024-12-07T17:10:15-08:00Polina Dimovae3cc21567714201b2dd4d0a2c7acf46b8dd6ea1c
1media/DH 5.15. Bauhaus_Graphic_Music_IMG_2587_thumb.jpeg2024-12-07T16:33:48-08:00Polina Dimovae3cc21567714201b2dd4d0a2c7acf46b8dd6ea1cDH 5.15a. H. S. Bormann, Bauhaus Visuliazation of Music, Kandinsky Course, 19304Bauhaus Archive, Berlin. Photo by the authormedia/DH 5.15. Bauhaus_Graphic_Music_IMG_2587.jpegplain2024-12-07T22:53:57-08:00Polina Dimovae3cc21567714201b2dd4d0a2c7acf46b8dd6ea1c
1media/DH 5.16. Kandinsky_Quadrangle_Triangle_Circle_IMG_1221_1_thumb.jpeg2024-12-07T16:58:18-08:00Polina Dimovae3cc21567714201b2dd4d0a2c7acf46b8dd6ea1cDH 5.16. Wassily Kandinsky, “Quadrangle and Triangle in a Circle as the Origin of Numbers,” 19263Wassily Kandinsky, “Punkt und Linie zu Fläche,” ill. 102, 1928. Public domainmedia/DH 5.16. Kandinsky_Quadrangle_Triangle_Circle_IMG_1221_1.jpegplain2024-12-18T20:09:57-08:00Polina Dimovae3cc21567714201b2dd4d0a2c7acf46b8dd6ea1c
12024-12-07T16:36:43-08:00Polina Dimovae3cc21567714201b2dd4d0a2c7acf46b8dd6ea1cKandinsky Media Gallery8gallery2024-12-18T20:11:14-08:00Polina 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
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
12018-10-04T03:50:47-07:00Polina 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
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