Bulent Arel, "Mimiana I: Flux"
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The myriad, diverse sonorities, expressions, and articulations of the electronic music medium provide a remarkable array of musical colors especially suitable for combination with the visual medium of dance.
The electronic music works on this recording were composed expressly for modern dance and were commissioned by choreographer Mimi Garrard in the spac of nearly a decade. Each individual musical work is uniquely related to its own choreography. Collectively, the compositions reflect varying degrees of complexity and diversity of both an aesthetic and technical nature, and a wide range of emotional expression.
In creating a dance work, often the choreographer may chart out a meticulously detailed plan of action on stage, including each beat or count of the dance in exact tempos, descriptions of dancers' movements which may form essential and recurring motives in the dance, and elaborate lighting effects. Then, the musical score is composed to synchronize with these aspects of the choreography. The dancers, in turn, synchronize their own movements to the music throughout the choreography, and the composer's musical score must be lucid, technically precise, as well as a sensitive aesthetic interpretation of the dance. Sometimes, the situation is reversed and the choreography is based on an already composed, previously commissioned electronic work, perhaps itself based on an overall expression or programmatic idea suggested by the choreographer, or else created by the composer as a work purely abstract in nature. In any event, the composer's intention is to create a work which complements the dance and is one of its essential components, and which can exist also as a complete musical work in its own right
In this recording, the composers' virtuosity and musical mastery of the medium is unmistakably evident in these singular and engaging works of electronic music for dance. Bulent Arel's series of Mimianas was produced at the Columbia-Princeton E!ecmnic Music Center, and Daria Semegen's Arc: Music for Dancers was realized at the Electronic Music Studios at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, Long Island. The complete works combining choreography, music, and lighting images have been performed by the Mimi Garrard Dance Theatre initially in New York City and subsequently on' tour.
MIMIANA 1: Flux
(By Bulent Arel; Time: 10:40)
The dance work includes a film which projects changing colors, patterns, and numbers on the dancers, creating continuously changing abstract designs. This first electronic music score of the Mimiana series was composed after the choreography was completed, and consists of purely electronic sound phrases which parallel the overall gestures of the dancers, without indicating any specific beats or metric patterns, as such.
The myriad, diverse sonorities, expressions, and articulations of the electronic music medium provide a remarkable array of musical colors especially suitable for combination with the visual medium of dance.
The electronic music works on this recording were composed expressly for modern dance and were commissioned by choreographer Mimi Garrard in the spac of nearly a decade. Each individual musical work is uniquely related to its own choreography. Collectively, the compositions reflect varying degrees of complexity and diversity of both an aesthetic and technical nature, and a wide range of emotional expression.
In creating a dance work, often the choreographer may chart out a meticulously detailed plan of action on stage, including each beat or count of the dance in exact tempos, descriptions of dancers' movements which may form essential and recurring motives in the dance, and elaborate lighting effects. Then, the musical score is composed to synchronize with these aspects of the choreography. The dancers, in turn, synchronize their own movements to the music throughout the choreography, and the composer's musical score must be lucid, technically precise, as well as a sensitive aesthetic interpretation of the dance. Sometimes, the situation is reversed and the choreography is based on an already composed, previously commissioned electronic work, perhaps itself based on an overall expression or programmatic idea suggested by the choreographer, or else created by the composer as a work purely abstract in nature. In any event, the composer's intention is to create a work which complements the dance and is one of its essential components, and which can exist also as a complete musical work in its own right
In this recording, the composers' virtuosity and musical mastery of the medium is unmistakably evident in these singular and engaging works of electronic music for dance. Bulent Arel's series of Mimianas was produced at the Columbia-Princeton E!ecmnic Music Center, and Daria Semegen's Arc: Music for Dancers was realized at the Electronic Music Studios at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, Long Island. The complete works combining choreography, music, and lighting images have been performed by the Mimi Garrard Dance Theatre initially in New York City and subsequently on' tour.
MIMIANA 1: Flux
(By Bulent Arel; Time: 10:40)
The dance work includes a film which projects changing colors, patterns, and numbers on the dancers, creating continuously changing abstract designs. This first electronic music score of the Mimiana series was composed after the choreography was completed, and consists of purely electronic sound phrases which parallel the overall gestures of the dancers, without indicating any specific beats or metric patterns, as such.
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