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Lady Dice and the Emerald Oyster Honeycomb - Audio Files
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- Author(s) / Creator(s)
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As a composer, I spend hours in my studio creating dense and complex electronic music.
Onstage, this music is radically transformed as I become BlipVert, a performative alter-ego
which fervently remixes and alters the music, furthermore adding ancillary frenetic physical
reactions to the electronic textures. BlipVert’s physicality imbues it with conspicuous
synaesthetic quality: sound and vision are intimately conjoined in BlipVert performances thereby
portraying BlipVert as a compelling construct of visual-music. BlipVert epitomizes my oeuvre,
which is ultimately defined by what I refer to as snapshot composition: a collection of
contrasting creative ideas which are exhibited as a complex of interconnected parts. My doctoral
thesis composition, "Lady Dice and the Emerald Oyster Honeycomb," a music-drama in five
scenes for BlipVert, two percussion batteries, and two sopranos, attempts to expand BlipVert’s
identity by thoroughly exploring the expressive possibilities of visual-music through various
mediums: graphic scoring, interpretive conducting, color-composing, word painting, and
electronic technology. Ultimately, Lady Dice and the Emerald Oyster Honeycomb represents a
profound coalescence of expressive activities which formulate synaesthetic interdisciplinarity:
interconnected properties working together which amplify the concept of visual-music and
illuminate the essence of snapshot composition as a unique creative practice.Audio available for streaming on Aviary: https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/r/1v5bc3vf5b
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- Date created
- 2019-05-19
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- Type of Item
- Research Material