Image–Music–Text: Operatic Experiments in the Age of the Audiovisual Essay

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https://doi.org/10.51191/issn.2637-1898.2021.4.6.40

Keywords:

Creation, Opera, Audiovisual, Music, Video

Abstract

Emerging as a new tool and form of criticism and theorizing, the audiovisual essay has stirred many different opinions within the academy, with its many different outcomes. For scholarly purposes, combining it with text, reflection and commentary seems to be the most common and most accepted form of audiovisual essay, easily found all over the internet in wellknown video archives such as YouTube and Vimeo. Towards a more poetic end of the spectrum, breaking both the horizontal and vertical dimensions of any work may deepen and reveal new possibilities, often resulting in the creation of new hybrid pieces. This paper aims to demystify these new formats and concepts, focusing on its potentiality as a tool for criticism and its creative possibilities regarding music and, more specifically, opera.

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  • João Ricardo, CESEM UÉvora, Lisbon, Portugal

    João Ricardo (1993) finished his master’s degree in Artes Musicais [Musical Arts] at Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (FCSH/UNL) in 2019. His second chamber opera – Eco/Arquipélago – premiered in August at OPERAFEST 2020 in Lisbon. He studies music composition and analysis under Luís Soldado and participated in masterclasses and workshops with the composers and scholars Jaime Reis, Vincent Debut, Ake Parmerud, Hans Tutschku, João Pedro Oliveira, Carlos Caires, Dimitris Andrikopoulos and António Sousa Dias. Apart from his works as a composer and music editor, he is a researcher affiliated with Centro de Estudos de Sociologia e Estética Musical (CESEM FCSH/UNL) since September 2019, within the groups Opera Studies Research Cluster and Contemporary Music Research Group, and since March 2020 he holds a research grant at University of Évora (CESEM UÉvora), integrating the project PASEV: Patrimonialization of Évora's Soundscape (1540-1910).

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15.07.2021

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No. 6 (2021): Music, Art, and Humanities in the Time of Global Crisis

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Image–Music–Text: Operatic Experiments in the Age of the Audiovisual Essay. (2021). INSAM Journal of Contemporary Music, Art and Technology, 6, 40-56. https://doi.org/10.51191/issn.2637-1898.2021.4.6.40
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