Echo/s
DESCRIPTION
ECHO II I The idea was to test interactions between the visual inputs and generated shadows, real and false images, live generated and pre-produced sounds. Final goal was to create a picture of one parallel reality. The analysis of the movie “La dolce vita” brought to light three different sound layers. Each one represents specific visual component of the movie. The music is the reflection of the story, but focuses on philosophical, psychological and sociological aspects of it. It reflects the emptiness and the false happiness of the postwar jet-set society.
COMPOSITION
The audiovisual composition Echo II is a unification of two sonic and visual parallel worlds.
The primary world is displayed in the reality of the performance itself, whereas the secondary world is presented as a superimposed video projection from a previous perfomance of the same piece. The principle of cause and effect between interactions has been suspended.
By means of video projections visual shadows are generated which constitute a reflexion of reality in both worlds. Both layers constitute ‘the world’ and a shadow of the world at the same time. Thus emerges a third, fusioned reality, which is perceived as the ‘true one’. This conceptual state, when physically interpreted, could be compared with the search for a Unified Field Theory.
The sonic overtone spectrum can be understood as a transdimensional space of the visual, the psychological, and the philosophical. All sonoric properties occurring throughout the piece were chosen for their coherent characteristics.
Echo II employs the following acoustic categories:
- sound masses – punctualism – melodics
SOUNDMATERIAL/Overview
Sound masses
Cluster tremolos on strings (sub-contra, contra octave)
Glissandos on strings (various registers)
Punctualism
Singular tones (c, fis)
Flageolets
Singular plucked strings (various registers)
„Melodies“
Ordinario (regular playing, e-c-g-h)
Plucked strings
OVERVIEW
- Duration: ca. 9’
- Video requirements: video projector plus projection screen, vga cable (5m or 10m)
- Audio requirements: piano
- Premiere: Graz, AUT – KUG, December 6th, 2008
VIDEO
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