When musicians march in the streets people is happy. Or at least that is what I like to think. I love parades. Walking, marching, dancing in public space is a sort of happiness. A collective performance that usually happens during carnivals. It could also happens during especial national or patriotic celebrations. Today, I joined [...]
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Following the traces of the youth grassroots media production in Austin has been exciting. It is nice and intellectually challenging to discover new worlds. As I decided to pursue the project of documenting some of the practices of the local youth (sub) cultural scene, I have been talking to some of the baristas in [...] Have you ever been in a concert where the pieces are played twice? Have you ever been in a museum which galleries have been turned into performance stages? Have you ever listened to the sound of 80 trombones arranged across two floors? Today’s concert at the Blanton Museum, entitled “Space and Symmetry” was such [...] I am back to school. Since two weeks ago I have started to participate in the Austin Samba School weekly meetings at a gymnasium located in the campus of a former Texas Insane Asylum now transformed into a State Hospital. The school is also known as The Acadêmicos da Ópera. It is a vibrant [...] Since the end of the 1980s, exploring the aural dimension of cinematic language has opened a new field of film scholarship. One of the leading figures in this adventure is Michel Chion, a music composer and theoretician, who studies cinematic language with a focus in the auditory realm and the audio-visual relationships. Although sometimes Chion [...] In order to understand the conventions of film music, either from the silent or the sound era (including the silent-to-sound transitional period of 1926-1936), it is useful to look at the theatrical and dramatic practices of the 18th and 19th century. Studying the music and staging conventions of Melodrama, for instance, help us to answer [...] |
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