A VIDA É SEMPRE PREFERÍVEL ou o monólogo do sal para lhe completar a medida
acção poética / teatro electroacústico
Novo espectáculo de poesia sonora/new op-era de Miguel Azguime, no qual o compositor, o poeta e o performer se voltam a reunir num só a solo, para uma nova incursão pela palavra enquanto música e pela música enquanto palavra. Work in progress à procura de um novo devir, regresso à palavra e às suas transformações electrónicas, reflexão sobre o homem e o mundo, onde a vida é sempre o caminho e o lugar preferível.
MISO ENSEMBLE
Miguel Azguime · composição musical e textual, voz, electrónica em tempo real
Paula Azguime - difusão sonora
Realização técnica: Miso Studio
Produção: MisoMusicPortugal ©2021
Financiamento DgArtes - Ministério da Cultura
A LAUGH TO CRY opera
Miguel Azguimelibreto, music
Paula Azguime director
Pedro Neves conductor
Camila Mandillo soprano
Andrea Conangla soprano
André Henriques bass barítono
Miguel Azguime speaker
Jade Mandillo speaker
Sílvia Cancela fluta
Nuno Pinto clarinet
Vítor Vieira violin
Jorge Alves viola
Luís André Ferreira cello
Francisco Cabrita piano
João DIas percussion
Andre Bartetzki live electronics
Perseu Mandillo motion capture, VFX & 3D
Margarida Moreira light design
Miso Studio technique
TEASER A LAUGH TO CRY OPERA
Commissioned by the Warsaw Autumn Festival, with the support of Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation
Fund: Ministério da Cultura / Direcção Geral das Artes
Remerciements: Adalberto Alves, Susana Janic, Hiroyuki Saeki, Ylva Gruen, Saoud al-Tayari, Jakub Szczypa, João Cutileiro
A Laugh to Cry explores some of the essential concerns of human beings, transported to our time in the context of a globalized world, formalizing themselves in a reflection on the hegemonic power of destruction of memory, devastationof the Earth while speculating on the collapse of humanity.It’s a cry of freedom against tyranny, against the destructionof Art, against the devastation of the earth, against theomnipresence of arrogance and injustice, against of oppression; it's a glimpse of the loss of humanity, and theforeseen loss of civilisation as we know it.
The opera develops on the border between dream and reality,between the visible and the invisible, between laughter and tears.
A Laugh to Cry with music and multilingual libretto by MiguelAzguime (Portuguese, French, English, and several otherlanguages in the final part) is a metaphysical theatre that putseternal archetypes to music and on stage. The interpretationinvolves five characters, represented by two sopranos, a bassand two narrators (woman and man); 7 acoustic instruments: flute, clarinet, violin, viola, cello, piano and percussion andelectronic media in real time. The staging is based on multiple video projections built in symbiosis between music and text.
A NEW OP-ERA (a new era for the opera)
a MisoMusicPortugal/Miso Ensemble project
Funded by Ministério da Cultura - DgArtes -
opoio figurinos:
Itinerário do Sal - SALT ITINERARY
ópera multimédia ou teatro electroacústico ?
Reflexão sobre a Criação e a Loucura, a ópera multimédia Itinerário do Sal gira em torno da linguagem, da palavra-sentido e da palavra-som; ambas tratadas como dimensões da voz, da voz enquanto extensão do corpo e ambas totalmente integradas na construção cénica como projecção tangível da ressonância das palavras através do som e da imagem. Áudio, Vídeo e processamento electrónico em tempo real associados à projecção espacial da voz, da poesia, do gesto, da música e do traço, desenvolvem uma polifonia de sentidos, um contraponto de significados, uma exuberância de emoções.
Um performer/autor em palco talha ao vivo com o humor que lhe é característico novos trilhos na performance vocal e na música electrónica; o som, a luz, as imagens e o movimento como que desenhados, pintados ou esculpidos, desafiam de forma poderosa, intensa e emocionante as convenções e os limites entre Música, do Teatro e da Ópera.
Salt Itinerary multimedia opera transcends theatrical and music conventions. Reflecting on Art and Madness, it revolves around languages, words as meaning and words as sound. Both are used as an extension of the body and melted in the construction of the staging as a tangible projection of the resonance of the words through sound and image.
Live audio and video electronic processing and diffusion of the voice, poetry, gestures, music and the drawings creates a polyphony of senses and a counterpoint of meanings. Molding sounds, lights, pictures and movements as if being drawn, painted or carved, Salt Itinerary is a powerful, engaging and challenging combination of music and drama by one performer that shapes new grounds in electronic music and breaks boundaries between music, theatre, opera.
Miguel Azguime: performance, composition, texts, and concept
Paula Azguime: staging & video creation; sound projection, live-electronics,
Perseu Mandillo: video directing & live video, computer assistant
Andre Bartetzki: video programming
Miso Studio: technical development
Production: MisoMusicPortugal©2021
Funds DgArtes - Ministério da Cultura
“THE LITTLE GIRL WATER DROPLET”
CHILDREN’S MULTIMEDIA INTERACTIVE OPERA
The opera is about the water cycle, it tells a story of a water droplet travel from the sea and back to the sea and all the connections that can be made with nature, education for citizenship, climate change, sustainability and environment.
The opera was designed for all audiences, but also as a pedagogical, interactive and exciting challenge both for the audi- ence and for thechildren participants is a musical and visual work binding contemporary aesthetics with some important matters of the human kind.
The influence of the children as singers and actors/dancers as well as their influence in the visual content through the use of interaction technology are key factors for creating a ludic and playful mood. Paula Azguime virtual scenography option and choice of mixing different inputs (real images, 2D and 3D computer graphics and children drawings) for the staging of the opera proved to be very resourceful in creating dynamic,imaginative and fantastic scenery and to be artistically very prolific and rewarding.
The children drawings, the videos, the representations and its transformations hand in hand with movements/choreog- raphy of the choir contribute to the perception and fruition both of the music and the story. The music, sung by children, joins spoken and singing voices, real-time sound transformations of voice as well as nature and electronic sounds diffused in space.
The choice of the text, being a major text in children’s Portuguese contemporary literature by Papiniano Carlos, focus- ing on a crucial matter of today’s life regarding environment and nature bind with an original composition by Miguel Azguime allowed concurrently carrying out avery close and fruitful dialogue between the story, the music, the visuals, the choir and the narrator and a strong communication with the audience either children or adults.
THE LITTLE GIRL WATER DROPLET was awarded with the National Multimedia Prize - ART & CULTURE 2012 THE LITTLE GIRL WATER DROPLET is nominee of the Young European Award 2013
The opera was until now sung in Portuguese but the text is translated and it can be narrated in other languages, depending on the country where it is performed.
CREDITS & CAST
MIGUEL AZGUIME composition & libretto on original text by Papiniano Carlos
PAULA AZGUIME concept; video composition & staging
ERICA MANDILLO conductor & choir staging
ÁGATA MANDILLO narrator (for Portuguese, English, Italian & French)
CHILDREN|YOUTH’S CHOIR OF THE UNIVERSITY OF LISBON (CIJUL)
PERSEU MANDILLO footage & image processing
SARA JANIC costumes
JAKUB SZCZYPA monitors
NEW OP-ERA project
MISO STUDIO multichannel diffusion system
MISO MUSIC PORTUGAL production Commissioner:ECOMUSEU MUNICIPAL DO SEIXAL
Partnership: UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA PORTUGUESA / CITAR Research Center for Science and Technology in Art
Support: FUNDAÇÃO PARA A CIÊNCIA E A TECNOLOGIA
Special acknowledgement to PAPINIANO CARLOS’ FAMILY
DEMO VIDEO https://youtu.be/-ZQjSEzaTak
HIGH RESOLTION VIDEO OF THE PREMIERE
https://youtu.be/MfoGMlQLeMA