Reinterpreting Technology for Pierre Boulez’s “Dialogue de l’ombre double” for Live Performance
- Submitting institution
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University of South Wales / Prifysgol De Cymru
: B - B – Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies : B - B – Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama
- Output identifier
- 4821137
- Type
- I - Performance
- Venue(s)
- Corbridge Festival (2018); Stoller Hall, Manchester (2019), Dora Stoutzker Hall, Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama (2019)
- Open access status
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- Month of first performance
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- Year of first performance
- 2018
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Additional information
- This is an output in which new technical solutions were found by Odilon Marcenaro to reclaim this important work by Pierre Boulez from obscurity. “Dialogue de l’ombre double” is for clarinet and six channels of pre-recorded audio, which are diffused dynamically over six loudspeakers into the performance space. The original score calls for this to be achieved using now obsolete and unob-tainable technical equipment. Performance of this piece also calls for a team of engineers and per-formers to manage a pre-recorded play-out side of the score as well as to follow a complicated per-formance score. As a result, this composition has more or less vanished from the repertoire. Through several adaptations, including the use of Logic as a performance tool rather than just a recording medium, Marcenaro created a version of “Dialogue…” which can now be staged in any suitable location without being tethered to a specific set of technical requirements. In addition, all technical aspects of the piece are now easily managed and transferable from one location to an-other. The significance resides in the fact that this exciting work can now be performed with mini-mal fuss anywhere.
The submitted pdf file includes links to videos of the performance at the Corbridge Festival in 2018, photographs documenting the work, and a description of the research process.
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