Duration: 15 minutes
Premiere: November 2nd and 3rd, 2018
Instrumentation: fixed media (quadraphonic)
recordings will be available online Spring 2019
Program Notes: I scored/sound designed for both the Romeo and Juliet scene as well as transition music. Each quadraphonic speaker was attributed to a different style/time period, with varying period instruments and musical styles assigned to each corner using the VSL libraries, live instrumental recordings, and modern-day synthesizers.
More project information:
The Rosetta Theatre Project was a unique performance experience structured like an exhibition in an art gallery, allowing guests to come and go at will and experience an immersive, ever-changing theatrical art installment. The project uses live motion-capture technology to present two short scenes, one from Shakespeare and the other from Moliere, on a continuous loop. Each scene was instantaneously translated into four different versions, two in English and two in French. Using a real-time motion capture system, live performances were transformed digitally into four different computer animations, each representing a distinct time period and culture: 16th century England, 17th century France, modern-day Paris
A part of UGA’s Spotlight on the Arts festival, this project was an interdisciplinary collaboration among many departments. David Saltz, the head of the theatre and film studies department, worked closely with Sujata Iyengar, professor of English, and Peter Lane, assistant professor of composition in the Hugh Hodgson School of Music. Lane and graduate student Kathryn Koopman composed scores for the event.
The project was presented in collaboration with two conferences: the national conference of the Alliance for Arts in Research Universities (a2ru) and the international conference Scenes in the Other’s Language/Scenes