tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post7202132765275960884..comments2024-03-26T07:58:59.761+00:00Comments on I'll think of something later: Paths to Bluebeard's CastleDavidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14506881804082382739noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post-66871421153840538492017-05-29T01:19:19.175+01:002017-05-29T01:19:19.175+01:00David: Hmm. I'm not sure I'm any the wiser...David: Hmm. I'm not sure I'm any the wiser either! Though the twists and turns of mind any artist take in creating are always interesting.Susan Scheidhttps://prufrocksdilemma.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post-2178809675355743082017-05-29T00:05:20.194+01:002017-05-29T00:05:20.194+01:00Sophie - curiouser and curiouser. I hope it did An...Sophie - curiouser and curiouser. I hope it did Angela Carter's wonderful story justice. Sarah Lenton dredged up some very tacky-looking stills and film posters from unlikely variants on the Bluebeard theme (sexploitation seems to have played a part). I hope you made a lovely corpse.<br /><br />Sue, yes, it was recorded, but the soundfile they sent starts at least five minutes in - awaiting the return of instigator Marie Ortinau to see if anything can be done. <br /><br />The description by Dorszanki's work reads (partly) as follows:<br /><br />'Based on the recording of a performance by composer and musician Zsigmond Lazar, the artist sectioned the libretto into 89 equal parts. Structured this way, new voices enter the music at units 5, 8, 13, 21 and 34 (numbers of the golden ratio, also recognisable in Bartok's music). The entering voices are alpha, beta, gamma and epsilon harmonies. The piece on the wall displays the libretto of Cantata Profana translated into morse code.<br /><br />' "I began working with Morse codes in the summer of 2015. I was interested in the form of communication transfer, as well as the sign that remains on the paper after the long and short signs. The long (ta) and short (ti) are time units that can also be treated as musical symbols. This way the message, the encoded content, may offer mutiple interpretations. That time, however, I was still only interested in visualising texts in the form of Morse code. The sign that carries encoded content on paper like the Rosetta Stone. <br /><br />' "These are signs. Signs that have to be transmitted out into an unknown universe. Encoding a symbol, a story, a piece of information that is important to me or you, that someone somewhere considers important. That a planet considers important. Or nobody, yet it is important to send it out there to be preserved".'<br /><br />Not sure I'm much the wiser, but there it is.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14506881804082382739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post-83156952419339204842017-05-26T14:40:33.654+01:002017-05-26T14:40:33.654+01:00Yet another event I'm very sorry to have misse...Yet another event I'm very sorry to have missed while in the UK was your talk. Is there any chance this was recorded? Your summary of the talk here is rich indeed, and I love the interspersed art from the Budapest exhibit, in particular, Dénes Farkas's Microcosm and Gábor Palotai's Makrokosmos 1-16. I'm a sucker for those sort of cross-currents of artistic inspiration. (In that regard, Adrienn Dorszanki's Bartók's text from the Cantata Profana as morse code is clever, too. What would have prompted him to do that? Is there any actual Morse Code connection, or was it perhaps just the sound?)Susan Scheidhttps://prufrocksdilemma.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1248503935075362425.post-57139437283044335422017-05-26T14:15:58.856+01:002017-05-26T14:15:58.856+01:00Yes YES! David it was all the wonderful things you...Yes YES! David it was all the wonderful things you say - A marvellous opera,grand and grim, and splendidly performed! Enjoyed it thoroughly. My non speaking, non-moving part in 'The Bloody Chamber' was that of a life drawing model who had become one of Blue Beard's wives,now laying naked and dead on a slab of marble, red curly long hair spread out with a wisp of chiffon strategically placed on the body to hide certain bits...there is actually quite a story attached to this but I might tell that tale one day on the blog.<br />Thanks for a lovely evening!toubabhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08673341148534060332noreply@blogger.com