Accelerando: BJMD (Feb 2024)
The Synergy Of Music, Movement And Technology In The Author's Choreographies
Abstract
This article discusses the issues of interdisciplinarity and intermediality of art(s). The author has been exploring this subject for many years. Her artistic works, which constitute a kind of spatial-movement visualizations, have been recently enhanced with an additional medium: multimedia. The article broadly refers to the history of the Eurhythmics method creation by its inventor, Emil Jaques-Dalcroze. Music in this method is an inspiration for creative solutions, such as choreography music, in which Dalcroze was heavily inspired by the tradition of Greek chorea - the unity of three. The author highlights the connotations between Dalcroze's concept of music in movement and Dick Higgins’ intermedia art theory. Her original music choreographies are deeply rooted in the contemporary artistic and aesthetic theories, such as: the concept brought forward by William B. Worthen and Manuel DeLanda's theory. The artistic works discussed below present the interdisciplinary and integrative approach to choreography. They were created to be performed with two musical pieces by contemporary Polish composers. The two pieces considerably differ in terms of sound generation, creation techniques, genre, cast of performers, and general nature of music. They have one thing in common, though: the synergy of music, movement and technology.
