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An Experimentally Conceptualized,
Multi-Sensory, "OMNIMedia" Symphony,
and (Live) Performance-Art Event
including an Interactive Sound/Light Installation
INFORMATION ABOUT: The Performance Concepts, the underlying Creative Process
(including Story writing, Music composing, Programming, etc.)
Some of the Influences, the Research being done,
ongoing progress being made on the Project
and efforts to find support for the Development Costs
through Fundraising, Grants, Fellowships and Private Donations.
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"I shall go forth, against all sorts of things, towards bright, strong and righteous aims, towards a genuine art that loves mankind, lives with his joys, his grief and his sufferings."
- Modest Mussorgsky

Modest Mussorgsky was one of the so-called "mighty five" composers that came together in St Petersburg in the 1860's to create music with a truly Russian voice which would speak in loud contrast to the European popular styles of the day. The others in the "mighty five" were Borodin, Cui, Balakirev, and Rimsky-Korsakov. His music spoke dramatically and eloquently to all. One of Mussorgsky's most celebrated compositions, Pictures at an Exhibition, is a musical interpretation of the visual experience of viewing several paintings. Each painting is vividly portrayed in sound, using a subtle variety of musical shades and hues, a virtual acoustic equivalent of a painter's palette of colors. Mussorgsky composed it for piano, and it is a tour-de-force for any pianist. Years later the French composer Maurice Ravel saw its potential for orchestra, and it is in his orchestration that Pictures at an Exhibition has become most well-known.

Topic:
LISTEN WITH YOUR EYES / SEE WITH YOUR EARS
The harmony of the senses.

As I am interested in developing my own sound processing programs for The Phoenix Bird project, I have been doing research about the future of creativity and sensation. I found an excellent book by F. Richard Moore (1990) entitled "Elements of Computer Music" which covers a great many topics in a very readable style.

An experimental project that deeply sympathizes with the theme of recomposing the "ways we sense the world" was originally performed in Europe under the name "Dialogue in the Dark"--it takes place in a pitch black room, where one hears various sounds, touches plants...has a non-visual experience. Moreover, those who guide us through the room are visually handicapped. Experiencing the world of the blind through this para-experience makes one realize the extent to which our sensory circuits are shut down in normal daily living.

Details can be found at Dialogue in the Dark.




June Nights

In summer, when day has fled, the plain covered with flowers
Pours out far away an intoxicating scent;
Eyes shut, ears half open to noises,
We only half sleep in a transparent slumber.

The stars are purer, the shade seems pleasanter;
A hazy half-day colours the eternal dome;
And the sweet pale dawn awaiting her hour
Seems to wander all night at the botom of the sky.
- Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo, born in Besancon, France (1802-1885). Novelist, poet, dramatist and critic. He is best known for his novels "Notre-Dame de Paris" - Quasimodo, the Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1831) and "Les Miserables" (1862). Victor Hugo is considered one of the leaders of the Romantic movement in French literature. Hugo created poems and novels that integrated political and philosophical questions with stories of his times. He was the herald of the new spirit of liberty and humanitarianism in France. Victor Hugo died in Paris, at the age of 83. Over three million people attended his State funeral.

Topic:
SENSEWARE
Telematics and fuzzy dreamz.

Fuzzy Dreamz...a net.art project by Doctor Hugo, explores the telematics of the mind, from fear to fun and the poetic power of a sense of wonder. A syntax of montage in relation to synaesthetic dream experiences in a film noir atmosphere.



Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes.
Art is knowing which ones to keep.
- Scott Adams