Musical Theater, Chuchotements burlesques

This event has a focus on notation, gesture and new technology in the composition of interdisciplinary works. Through this event that consists of the premiere of a musical theater for an actor, three musicians and electronics, as well as two lectures and a round-table, we will attempt to study the notational strategies and motion capture that are brought forward with new technologies.

Today, we are able to engage all our senses deeply in the perception of our environment that figures in music, sound and image. Thus the relationship between concept, notation, repetition and work was radically redefined; resulting in the draft processes themselves becoming autonomous artworks. Digital technologies have given rise to new forms of expressivity, allowing art and science to enter into a symbiotic relationship, hence an erosion of the conventional boundaries between different branches of art. Nowadays artists navigate flexibly between music and theatre, video and dance, in…