Ode to Christus Hypercubus: creative process of a multimodal performance
Jônatas Manzolli · Arts and Technology · 2018
This article presents a creative process aided by computer involving music, images and poetry. Along with resonances from walls and archs of Cathedrals and computer-generated sounds; a pianist, a soprano and a virtual choir perform an Ode to Salvador Dali's Christus Hypercubus. A diffused acoustic field generated with music fragments invites the audience to discover and recreate meanings for the Catalan's masterpiece. Starting upon Dali’s Mystical Manifesto, the article articulates aesthetics concepts from the 20th-century artists Salvador Dali, Iannis Xenakis and John Cage to elucidate the compositional process of a multimodal performance.