Musique électroacoustique latino-américaine

Arcángel Castillo Olivari, Pierrot, 1997
(Venezuela)



Durée de l'enregistrement : 6 min 29 s.
Remarques : Poème de Arcángel C. Olivari.

Autres ressources disponibles :
- À propos de Arcángel Castillo Olivari
- Compositions par Arcángel Castillo Olivari

À propos de cette composition :

[Traduction française non disponible]
Pierrot is a sonic art or computer music piece that evolved from a poem written by the composer, Mr. Castillo-Olivari.
The poem was inspired by a dance performance that the composer attended in Venezuela in which the choreography revolved around the figure of the French clown Pierrot. The figure, ghost-like and illusionary (through a stage effect created with white powder and flowing figuratively in air) presents a compelling sense of loss and pathos as
it wafts across the stage, a soul lost in search of wholeness.
Resonating with the enigmatic figure of Pierrot presented in the dance, the composer juxtaposes in the music a dialogue between the French clown and the character Colombina (two characters from French commedia dell'arte) to represent a dialectic of two lost human souls: Pierrot, always the pathetic one, is overly-sentimental and drunk on moon,
insane and in love, expresses in tension with Colombina who is perhaps frivolous and silly, yet practical and ambitious. Who is the one who truly suffers? Pierrot or Colombina? The truth is not always actual.....or is it? This piece is the reverse of the coin.......
All the sounds are created from the human voice transformmed using Paul Lansky's Cmix and RT software. The exception is right before the ending when a midi timbre from the synthesizer Proteus 1 is used.
Miriam Brown is the voice of Columbina and Seth Bowling is Pierrot, both were acting students from CCM.

Table des matières :