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El espacio psicoplástico de Josef Svoboda
the intentioned framing
art, photography, music, architecture
El artículo explora el trabajo del escenógrafo checo Josef Svoboda, centrando la atención en su interés por integrar el teatro y las imágenes en movimiento. Se analizan diversas escenografías desarrolladas entre 1950 y 1970 particularmente concebidas con este propósito, integrando en muchos casos tecnologías creadas por el propio Svoboda, innovadoras en su momento, y que hoy en día se han convertido en habituales.
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Absolutely on Music. Conversations.
the intentioned framing
Pensamiento, art, music, cinema, architecture
This text was born as a personal commentary to a rich two-way dialogue established between the writer Haruki Murakami and the musician Seiji Ozawa in their book Absolutely on Music. Conversations. Along the way, some more interlocutors fictitiously joined the conversation.
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Philip Glass y Jean Cocteau. Opera and cinema
the intentioned framing
art, music, cinema
Philip Glass compose between 1991 and 1996 a trilogy of operas based on three homonymous films by Jean Cocteau: Orphée (1950), La belle et la bête (1946) and Les enfants terribles (1950). Always working with absolute respect and admiration for the French director Philip Glass makes a transcription between the cinematographic field and the operatic one very different in the three cases.
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Théorie Poétique et esthétique (1957)
Pensamiento, music
We can count the steps of the goddess, note the frequency and average length, we do not draw the secret of his instant grace.
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Gould and Monsaingeon. Form, structure and method.
the intentioned framing
art, music, architecture
A Toronto hotel witnessed in July 1972 the first meeting between Glenn Gould and Bruno Monsaingeon. The fruitful friendship developed between them over 10 years left us an important set of audio-visual documents and written texts, essentials to understand the creative process of the pianist, undoubtaly giving extrapolable keys to other creative fields such as architecture.
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Jeanne Moreau and Miles Davis. An unforgettable night.
the intentioned framing
music, cinema, architecture
No longer possible to meet Jeanne Moreau on Boulevard Haussmann. The same Paris that gave birth to her testified last July 31th the silent and domestic closing of her enigmatic and sad look. Miles Davis had been born two years before her, far away. His gaze was also sad, but his death was not silent, rather angry, as it was all his life. Both shared an unforgettable night.
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Mary Ellen Bute
the intentioned framing
music, cinema, architecture
The American artist Mary Ellen Bute (1906-1983) is today recognized as a pioneer of animation films, especially in the field of so-called visual music.
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Instrumental. A Memoire of Madness, Medication and Music (2014)
music
Find what you love and let it kill you. [...] We seem to have evolved into a society of mourned and misplaced creativity. A world where people have simply surrendered to (or been beaten into submission by) the sleepwalk of work, domesticity, mortgage repayments, junk food, junk TV, junk everything, angry ex-wives, ADHD kids and the lure of eating chicken from a bucket while emailing clients at 8pm on a weekend.
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Guido Crepax: Valentina’s architect
the intentioned framing
art, comic, music, cinema, architecture
I like the game of the double life, the world of fantasy where anything can happen. The beauty of the fantasy would not be the one that it is without the other side of the coin, the reality.
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Future primitive
music, architecture
The act of creating one object is connected to the act of reimagining the whole world. (Sou Fujimoto) Primitive future
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A pianist with left hand
the intentioned framing
music
Beauty is the quality that makes the listener lose his or her self-possession. (Brad Mehldau)
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The salt of the earth.
the intentioned framing
photography, music, cinema
In 2014 Wim Wenders release his film "The salt of the earth", a documentary about the life of Sebastiao Salgado. Sevilla hosts until July 2th 2015, and under the "Street art" programme an exhibition of the last work of this committed photographer: Genesis.
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