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Paint And Sound: A Dialogue, Alyse M. Emanuel
Paint And Sound: A Dialogue, Alyse M. Emanuel
Departmental Honors Projects
This project is an exploration of the confluence of visual and musical artistic processes. As well as exploring how music and visual arts can inform each other and create dialogue, a central part of the project is an attempt to reach a synesthetic state in my own artistic processes for which my training as a visual artist and musician laid the groundwork. Through active, creative experimentation with making music in response to artwork and vice versa, I undertook to achieve a union of the senses. The project includes historical research that places my work in the context of other artists …
Something Wicked This Way Comes: Scoring Hamline University's Production Of "Macbeth", Andrew Brady
Something Wicked This Way Comes: Scoring Hamline University's Production Of "Macbeth", Andrew Brady
Departmental Honors Projects
This project represents a practical investigation into using original underscore in the modern theatrical experience. Over 40 minutes of cinematic, orchestral underscore were composed by the author specifically for Hamline University Theatre Department’s 2014 production of Macbeth. Using electronic scoring methods and digital playback strategies, the music was “performed” with variable timing that was able to directly match the performance of the actor’s for each show. The accompanying written musicological analysis explores the score’s uses of themes, spotting strategies, and integration of the show’s artistic concept. The analysis, in conjunction with the recorded score, demonstrates a cohesive effort to …