MUSICAL WORKS

MA Shihua

2016

Cinemagic

Birth C: CHINA Gender: Male

Dest: Concert

Media Specification: Interactive Audiovisual Performance

Performer(s): Performance: MA Shihua

First perf.: Musicacoustica Festival, 30 Octobre 2016

Duration: 08:30

Perf. Country: CHINA

Context: EMAC Concert

Instruments: For Interactive Audiovisual Performance

Perf media: Composer/Video Design: MA Shihua

Prog. notes: After film has become a common art form, watching film can be considered recreational fun, which is also very familiar to public. But in the early 20th century, when motion pictures started to develop, cinema just appearance, it was a magical experience watching films in a certain space. Cinemagic is the imagination and reduction of the experience that people anticipated different outcomes throughout the process. The work was composed with Ableton Live and Max, using film clips and sound clips from 1930s-1940s as video materials and sound respectively. With the method of parameter mapping for audio and video linkage section, it constitutes a link of the development between them

Editor: MB