From Intermedial Music to Interactive Multimedia Event: the Performance of Ravel’s Miroirs
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The intermedial interplay between music, image and text in French Impressionist music has the potential to fuel original and innovative multimedia performances, but the contextual and theoretical analysis of the multimedia reformatting of such traditional concert repertoire has yet to be made. Addressing problems of musical ontology and musical hermeneutics which are at the heart of today’s contemporary classical music performance culture, I focus on the aesthetic consequences of a move from implicit intermediality to explicit multimediality in the performance of Ravel’s collection for piano solo, Miroirs. So doing, I seek to redefine the artistic function of the performer and sow the seeds of a theory of the multimedia piano recital.
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