ITINERÁRIO DO SAL - SALT ITINERARY
ópera multimédia
Reflexão sobre a Criação e a Loucura, a ópera multimédia Itinerário do Sal gira em torno da linguagem, da palavra-sentido e da palavra-som; ambas tratadas como dimensões da voz, da voz enquanto extensão do corpo e ambas totalmente integradas na construção cénica como projecção tangível da ressonância das palavras através do som e da imagem. Áudio, Vídeo e processamento electrónico em tempo real associados à projecção espacial da voz, da poesia, do gesto, da música e do traço, desenvolvem uma polifonia de sentidos, um contraponto de significados, uma exuberância de emoções.
Um performer/autor em palco talha ao vivo novos trilhos na música electrónica; o som, a luz, as imagens e o movimento como que desenhados, pintados ou esculpidos, desafiam de forma poderosa, intensa e emocionante as convenções e os limites entre Música, Teatro e Ópera.
Salt Itinerary multimedia opera transcends theatrical and music conventions. Reflecting on Art and Madness, it revolves around languages, words as meaning and words as sound. Both are used as an extension of the body and melted in the construction of the staging as a tangible projection of the resonance of the words through sound and image.
Live audio and video electronic processing and diffusion of the voice, poetry, gestures, music and the drawings creates a polyphony of senses and a counterpoint of meanings. Molding sounds, lights, pictures and movements as if being drawn, painted or carved, Salt Itinerary is a powerful, engaging and challenging combination of music and drama by one performer that shapes new grounds in electronic music and breaks boundaries between music, theatre, opera.
Miguel Azguime: performance, composition, texts, and concept
Paula Azguime: staging & video creation; sound projection, live-electronics,
Perseu Mandillo: video directing & live video, computer assistant
Andre Bartetzki: video programming
Miso Studio: technical development
Production: Miso Music ©2021
“THE LITTLE GIRL WATER DROPLET”
CHILDREN’S MULTIMEDIA INTERACTIVE OPERA
The opera is about the water cycle, it tells a story of a water droplet travel from the sea and back to the sea and all the connections that can be made with nature, education for citizenship, climate change, sustainability and environment.
The opera was designed for all audiences, but also as a pedagogical, interactive and exciting challenge both for the audi- ence and for thechildren participants is a musical and visual work binding contemporary aesthetics with some important matters of the human kind.
The influence of the children as singers and actors/dancers as well as their influence in the visual content through the use of interaction technology are key factors for creating a ludic and playful mood. Paula Azguime virtual scenography option and choice of mixing different inputs (real images, 2D and 3D computer graphics and children drawings) for the staging of the opera proved to be very resourceful in creating dynamic,imaginative and fantastic scenery and to be artistically very prolific and rewarding.
The children drawings, the videos, the representations and its transformations hand in hand with movements/choreog- raphy of the choir contribute to the perception and fruition both of the music and the story. The music, sung by children, joins spoken and singing voices, real-time sound transformations of voice as well as nature and electronic sounds diffused in space.
The choice of the text, being a major text in children’s Portuguese contemporary literature by Papiniano Carlos, focus- ing on a crucial matter of today’s life regarding environment and nature bind with an original composition by Miguel Azguime allowed concurrently carrying out avery close and fruitful dialogue between the story, the music, the visuals, the choir and the narrator and a strong communication with the audience either children or adults.
THE LITTLE GIRL WATER DROPLET was awarded with the National Multimedia Prize - ART & CULTURE 2012 THE LITTLE GIRL WATER DROPLET is nominee of the Young European Award 2013
The opera was until now sung in Portuguese but the text is translated and it can be narrated in other languages, depending on the country where it is performed.
CREDITS & CAST
MIGUEL AZGUIME composition & libretto on original text by Papiniano Carlos
PAULA AZGUIME concept; video composition & staging
ERICA MANDILLO conductor & choir staging
ÁGATA MANDILLO narrator (for Portuguese, English, Italian & French)
CHILDREN|YOUTH’S CHOIR OF THE UNIVERSITY OF LISBON (CIJUL)
PERSEU MANDILLO footage & image processing
SARA JANIC costumes
JAKUB SZCZYPA monitors
NEW OP-ERA project
MISO STUDIO multichannel diffusion system
MISO MUSIC PORTUGAL production Commissioner:ECOMUSEU MUNICIPAL DO SEIXAL
Partnership: UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA PORTUGUESA / CITAR Research Center for Science and Technology in Art
Support: FUNDAÇÃO PARA A CIÊNCIA E A TECNOLOGIA
Special acknowledgement to PAPINIANO CARLOS’ FAMILY
DEMO VIDEO https://youtu.be/-ZQjSEzaTak
HIGH RESOLTION VIDEO OF THE PREMIERE
https://youtu.be/MfoGMlQLeMA
A Laugh to Cry
ópera multimédia
A Laugh to Cry sonda a condição humana, em particular a sua condição presente. Explora algumas das preocupações essenciais do ser humano, transportadas para o nosso tempo no contexto de um mundo globalizado, formalizando-se numa reflexão sobre o poder hegemónico que hoje tende a destruir a memória, a devastar o planeta Terra e quem sabe a extinguir até a própria humanidade!
São questões que afligem o espaço-tempo contemporâneo, que afligem o compositor, que nos afligem, que nos unem ou nos distanciam; num percurso do ser inexoravelmente temporal.
A ópera desenvolve-se na orla entre o sonho e a realidade, entre o visível e o invisível. Está dividida em várias secções nas quais cinco personagens, representados por dois sopranos, um baixo e dois narradores (um feminino e outro masculino), vivem e agem numa alternância constante entre esses dois estados. A interpretação envolve também 7 instrumentos acústicos: flauta, clarinete, violino, viola, violoncelo, piano e percussão e meios electrónicos em tempo real. A encenação assenta em projeções vídeo múltiplas construídas em simbiose a partir da música e do texto.
A Laugh to Cry com música e libreto multilíngue de Miguel Azguime é um teatro metafísico que põe em música e em cena arquétipos eternos. Um projeto Miso Ensemble / Miso Music Portugal
A Laugh To Cry tem o Alto Patrocínio do Presidente da Républica
Miguel Azguime – music and text composition, performance & concept
Paula Azguime – art director, video composition & concept
Andre Bartetzki – technology director,|live-electronics development
Perseu Mandillo – VFX |3D & photography
Atalaia 31 – wardrobe
Miso Studio: technical development
Production: Miso Music ©2021
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