From Poetry to Music: A Baba House Study
Picture speaks a thousand words. So can words and sentences speak a song of a thousand musical notes? Intersection between literature and music raise such questions as: Can an orchestra narrate? Does music have a past tense? Is an opera libretto like a movie script? Do certain literary texts invite musical adaptation? Is poetic rhetoric equivalent to musical rhetoric?
This project is interested in examine the relationship between language and music in a broader perspective that can be related to our daily life. While much work had been done in analyzing the close relationship between literature and music, there is much room to discover relationship between day-to-day language and contemporary music. While the composers think about the meaning of the music, we will design an environment that could transform any written sentence into a music composition.
The voice parameters, as timber, rhythm, changes of velocity and pitch will be defining the final result. Using a Convolution process, that means a mixing analysis of the sound parameters and a specific music data base we will obtain a meaningful collage as a real time composition.
Work featured in NUS Arts Festival 2007, Techno Arts Series, titled “From Poetry to Music: A Baba House Study”.
http://www.mixedreality.nus.edu.sg/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=144&Itemid=171
Press/Media:
Article titled "Turning poetry into music"
Source: The Straits Times, Singapore, 8th March 2007
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