Un Coup de Dés
emanuel dimas de melo pimenta
concerto e film

dedicato a Arturo Schwarz

Teatro OUT OFF
Via Mac Mahon, 16, 20155
Milano, Italia

direto da Lucrezia De Domizio Durini

3 giugno. 2015 . 17:00
ingresso libero

      
Un Coup de
      Dés - MUSIC AND FILM SCORES

      
 

      
Un Coup de Dés'
      score is divided in movie and music.

      
The piece - both
      on movie and music - is structured on three movements. In the
      movie the movements are diachronic, in music they are synchronic.
      The three movements of the movie are basic defined, respectivelly,
      as war, classic movies and sci fiction. Penetrating the three
      movements there are some elements giving unity to the project.
      It is a reflection on what we can call "dream" - which
      sometimes is not exactly pleasant.

      
In the presentation
      at the OUT OFF Theater, in Milano, Italy, Un Coup de Dés
      is made in its original version, on four screens. In the score
      bellow, the four screens are merged.

      
We have:

      
Film 1. El
      Rio y la Muerte - Luis Buñuel (1954) - elements of unity

      first movement - Nuclear Bomb tests

      second movement - The Bishop's Wife - Samuel Goldwyn (1947);
      Casablanca - Michael Curtiz (1942)

      third movement - 2001 A Space Odyssey - Stanley Kubrick (1968);
      Blade Runner - Ridley Scott (1982)

      
Film 2. Ghosts
      Before Breakfast - Hans Richter (1928); Surrealism at Its Best:
      Dali on "What's My Line?" (1950s) - elements of unity

      first movement - World War II Army Air Forces Report (1944)

      second movement - Casablanca - Michael Curtiz (1942); Dracula
      - Tod Browning (1931); The Maltese Falcon - John Huston (1941)

      third movement - Giant from the Unknown - Richard Cunha (1958);
      Star Trek - Robert Wise (1979)

      
Film 3. Emak
      Bakia - Man Ray (1926); René Magritte Interview (1960s)
      - elements of unity

      first movement - WW2 The Winter War 1939-1944

      second movement - Dracula - Tod Browning (1931); Frankenstein
      - James Whale (1931); The Maltese Falcon - John Huston (1941)

      third movement - The Day Earth Stood Still - Robert Wise (1951);
      Flash Gordon - Frederick Stephani, Ray Taylor, Robert F. Hill
      (1936)

      
Film 4. Emak
      Bakia - Man Ray (1926); Marcel Duchamp BBC Interview 1968 - elements
      of unity

      first movement - Nuclear Bomb Tests

      second movement - Singin' in the Rain - Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen
      (1952); Laura - Otto Preminger (1944)

      third movement - 2001 A Space Odyssey - Stanley Kubrick (1968);
      Dr. Strangelove - Stanley Kubrick (1964); Planet Earth NASA

      
 

      
Both music and
      movie were designed after chance operations in stochastic modules.
      As to say, I played dices to determine certain elements of the
      pieces - which is also a reference to the title. In this way,
      there was no intention in my work. Very interestingly, the result
      is - specially in some moments - astonishing. As if we had Nature
      speaking.

      
 

      
The music score
      is constituted by three frequency guide lines - black, yellow
      and red. They are three voices. Bellow, in the movie-music score,
      the voices are overlapped - so, it is not easy to identity each
      one of them. After, they are presented separately. Basically,
      the musician must analyze each line - that covers a spectrum
      of frequency - and determine the sounds will be used to follow
      them. It is a heavy exercise that must be done separatelly for
      each voice. Only in the end they can be played together. The
      musician, or musicians, can use any type of sound and instrumentation.
      For the world première in Milan, I used electronics.

      
 

      
The movie is
      not a closed work. Each person can assembly the elements above
      and discover through fusions and cuts the best interpretation.

      
 

      
Emanuel Pimenta.
      Milan. 2015

      
 

      
 

      
 
 

      
 

      
 

      
 

      
 

      
 

      
the and movie
      music score

      


      
 


      
 


      
 


      
 


      
 


      
the music scores