Composition strategies for the creation of science-based interdisciplinary and collaborative music-theatre

Daniel Blanco Albert

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Composition strategies for the creation of science-based interdisciplinary and collaborative music-theatre (2024)

Daniel Blanco Albert

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The practice-based PhD research project comprises the development and application of composition strategies and techniques generated through interdisciplinary collaboration to integrate elements and ideas from non-sonic disciplines into the musical discourse of new music-theatre works, specifically opera. I explore mechanisms of mapping and association that engage with both the specific subject matter of each piece and the creative collaborative environment in which they are created, thus generating different compositional resources that I use to inform the creative process. By using mapping techniques, I can deeply engage and communicate a subject matter on different levels in the musical composition. The framework for this research is the intertwining of art and science on a variety of levels from a music compositional perspective. Within this framework, I explored the integration of knowledge and data from the natural and social sciences to inform the composition of four science-based music-theatre works: In response to Naum Gabo: Linear Construction in Space No. 1 (2020), Autohoodening: The Rise of Captain Swing (2021), The Flowering Desert (2022), and TRAPPIST-1 (2023). With this approach, I aim to closely link these works with their particular subject matter instead of being composed based just on my personal musical taste. By consistently and cohesively applying the strategies and techniques explored in this research, the outcome is not creating music about science or music inspired by science, but, instead, music embedded with science in which the scientific data and knowledge inform the composition decisions. The subject matter is therefore intertwined within the musical discourse, its performativity and theatricality, and its relationship with the other disciplines and collaborators involved in the creation of these music-theatre works.

type	research exposition
keywords	music, composition, performing arts, art and science, collaboration, interdisciplinarity, composition as research, composition technique, composition process, Composition, Opera, Music-theatre, Music, Art and science, Interdisciplinary, Collaboration, Performative Arts, Performativity, Site-specific, opera, music-theatre, interdisciplinary, Performative arts, Doctoral research
date	10/10/2023
published	15/10/2024
last modified	15/10/2024
status	published
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affiliation	Royal Birmingham Conservatoire / Birmingham City University
copyright	Daniel Blanco Albert, 2023
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language	English
url	https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/2271549/2271550
published in	Birmingham City University: Faculty of Arts, Design and Media
portal issue	1. Doctoral Research

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name	Figure 3 - Music scales generated with the distances from the planets of the TRAPPIST-1 system to its star, approximated to semitones.
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name	Figure 5 - Music scale and its inversion transposed using D+32 cents as the first note of the scale. To facilitate the performance in the piece, these scales are presented in a simpler microtonal notation.
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name	Figure 6 - The Flowering Desert . Mélodrame 4: Bars 31-32, 38-39. Piano and strings. Transpositions of harmonic material generated with the orbital ratios of TRAPPIST-1 (Figure 1). The harmony in the first fragment is transposed to the tonal center of Planet D and its fundamental note is A (Figure 3). In the second fragment the same harmonic material is transposed to the tonal center of Planet H, whose fundamental note is C# (Figure 3).
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name	Figure 6 - The Flowering Desert . Mélodrame 4: Bars 31-32, 38-39. Piano and strings. Transpositions of harmonic material generated with the orbital ratios of TRAPPIST-1 (Figure 1). The harmony in the first fragment is transposed to the tonal center of Planet D and its fundamental note is A (Figure 3). In the second fragment the same harmonic material is transposed to the tonal center of Planet H, whose fundamental note is C# (Figure 3).
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