A presentation at VIII Art of Research Conference, Aalto University in Espoo, Finland by Elina Akselrud, the founder and artistic director of Intertwining Arts.
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ABSTRACT
The major interpretational aspects for any musical performance are the use of time and timbre and the decisions one makes in this regard. Artists have a particular temporal perception when working alone or with collaborators within their own medium. However, the sense of both, the time and timbre as artistic devices might alter significantly, when the art genres are crossdisciplinarily blended and artists from various media work simultaneously on the same material in an experimental setting. Integrating the space, movement, and color into play allows for a polydimensional re-visioning of a musical work and gives an opportunity for a profound reinterpretation of the score. The focus of this presentation is the non-verbal artistic communication that occurs between multiple performers during art making and how can the actions of one collaborator from a certain artistic discipline influence the decisions of the other one in another discipline, respectively.
In his later works, Alexander Scriabin incorporated into his compositions an expanding set of genres that involved sensations beyond the aural, such as light, color, movement, scent, space, and touch. His aspirations to use multimedia were both an act of self-reflection and self-expression qua an artist. I will present excerpts from my documentary “The Scriabin Sonatas Reimagined, Part 2”, featuring a collaboration between piano, dance, light, and stage design.
This project is unique due to its semi-composed (musical score) and semi-improvisational setting, with the aim to explore the interpersonal interpretational exchange between the collaborators and re-visioning a musical piece as a polydimensional creation.