Ausencias/Ausencias/Absences For String Quartet, Fixed Media, Dance and Interactive Video

String Quartet;Intermedia;Electronics;Music;Dance and Video collaboration;Mental Illness;Music and Dance;Arts;Music: Composition

Heredia, AdrianaSatyendra, Ramon ;

University of Michigan

关键词: String Quartet;    Intermedia;    Electronics;    Music;    Dance and Video collaboration;    Mental Illness;    Music and Dance;    Arts;    Music: Composition;   

Others  :  https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/138672/carohere_1.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

瑞士|英语

来源: The Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship

【 摘 要 】

My dissertation, entitled Ausencias/Ausências/Absences, is a thirty-minute intermedia work written for string quartet, fixed media, dance, and interactive video. The artistic impetus of this work was found in the last writings of three South American poets who took their own lives: Violeta Parra (1917-1967) from Chile, Alfonsina Storni (1892-1938) from Argentina and Ana Cristina Cesar (1952-1983) from Brazil.  The music consists of an introduction, interlude and three main movements, with each movement focusing on one poet. The choreographer Sandra Torijano created the dance, visual artist Kat Johnson produced the visual media for the projections, and Carlos García developed the interactive technology. This work was premiered on March 24th, 2017 at the Duderstadt Video Studio at the University of Michigan. The audio fixed media and video portion of the work includes images from Argentina from relevant places to the poets gathered during research trips to Argentina, Chile and Brazil, and recordings of traditional instruments, including the Cuatro Venezolano (small guitar with four strings) that belonged to Violeta Parra.The dance floor is illuminated by images projected from two overhead projectors, and it is captured by a camera suspended above the stage. Touch Designer and Kinect motion tracking technology, allows the dancers to trigger video gestures with their movements. I believe generating empathy through art can be a strong mechanism to develop our understanding of one another and therefore I explore the concept of suicide in an attempt to exercise our capacity for empathy and compassion as well as to destigmatize mental illness. In this work, I aimed to represent the poets’ culture and art, but also their humanity and intense emotions dealing with the obscure times preceding their death.It is my hope that this work will contribute to further exploration of both, the artistic work of these fine South American poets and their importance as relevant figures of each of their national collective consciousness, as well as to give a respectful and meaningful insight to vindicate and generate awareness of the heavy weight of mental illness.