The 大象传媒 Singers perform at the Contemporary Music Festival at the University of Plymouth. The theme of the 2019 festival, Multiverse proposes a weekend of musical interpretations of the quantum world.
Gala Programme
Neuroscience tells us that our perception of reality are constructions of the brain. Sounds are fabrications of our mind and music is an illusion. Linas鈥� Illusions is inspired by the intriguing notion that our brain can listen to sonic properties that seem to pop up out from nowhere. Yet, these properties do not show up when we analyse recordings of the actual sounds.
The inspiration for Marcelo鈥檚 Forking Paths comes from Jorge Luis Borges鈥� book The Garden of the Forking Paths. In this book Borges alludes to another fabrication of our brain: the notion of time. When we are confronted with several alternatives we choose one and eliminate others. If we could get rid of time, would we be able to live them simultaneously?
Eduardo鈥檚 opera Lampedusa is set in a parallel Shakespearean universe. The plot takes place before the arrival of Prospero and Miranda in Lampedusa, allegedly the island portrayed in Shakespeare鈥檚 play The Tempest. The opera tells the story of Sycorax, a refugee from Europe, her son, Caliban, and Ariel. Ariel is an invisible native inhabitant who objects Caliban鈥檚 ambitions of reigning over the island. Lampedusa includes materials composed with an unprecedented piece of software developed at ICCMR. It renders high-energy particles collision data from CERN鈥檚 Large Hadron Collider into sounds and music. The libretto is in the imaginary island鈥檚 language V艒v, created by celebrated language inventor David J. Peterson.
Linas Baltas
Illusions
Marcelo Gimenes
Forking Paths
Eduardo R. Miranda
Libretto: Eduardo R. Miranda & David J. Peterson.
Lampedusa (Opera in 3 acts. Choir, Mezzo-soprano, Bass and Electronics).
