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Concert "Allegoria dell'opinione verbale"
This piece (composer Roberto Doati, actress Francesca Faiella, live electronics Alvise Vidolin, writings Gianni Revello) was conceived by the composer during a workshop at InfoMus Lab at DIST in June 2000 and performed (first performance) in September 2001 at the opening concert of the season of Teatro La Fenice, Venice. Actress
is on stage, seated on a stool placed in the front of the stage near the left
side, turned towards the left backstage (so the public sees her profile). A big
screen projects her face in frontal view (a videocamera is placed hidden in the
left part of backstage, and is used both to project her face on the big screen
and to acquire her lips and face movements). The audience can therefore observe
the movements of the actress' face, while listening the piece and thus
perceiving the overlapping and interaction of her movement with sound changes
coming from the loudspeakers. She
therefore plays the text in front of the camera, while the EyesWeb platform is
employed for processing the movements of her lips and face, in order to obtain
parameters used to record and process in real-time her voice and diffuse
spatialised electroacoustic music on four loudspeakers placed at the four
corners of the auditorium in a standard electroacoustic music setup. The
signals reproduced by the loudspeakers are only derived by actress' voice:
former recordings of her voice, real-time recordings and post-process in
real-time, etc.
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