« A noir, E blanc, I rouge, U vert, O bleu » (“A black, E white, I red, U green, O blue”). Throughout his poem, Arthur Rimbaud enumerates the Voyelles (Vowels) one by one, carefully associated with colors, thus proposing a new chromatic perception of the alphabet of hues. Like letters and pigments, the sounds here scatter in a semblance of a music box, becoming in turn elements of a larger structure. A structure traversed and shaken from alpha to omega by « rire des lèvres belles » (“laughter of beautiful lips”), « vibrements divins » (“divine vibrations”) and « strideurs étranges » (“strange striders”), and which ultimately becomes the singular assembly of this myriad of objects set in motion.
