In this document, I discuss the creative process of a piece for instruments, electronics, and video titled Music for the End of the World in the context of the Anthropocene and music's relationship with it. The document is divided into two parts: Part I, divided into three chapters, is a critical essay and Part II, the score for Music for the End of the World. In the first two chapters, I present the conceptual basis for the creation of the piece and discuss relevant musical references. In the third chapter, I describe the creative process in detail and explain how the aesthetic decisions I made relate to the original concept. The first chapter starts by defining the Anthropocene and pointing out some connections between music, colonialism, and ecology. It also highlights some of the Anthropocene potential implications for the arts through the lens of Timothy Morton's post-humanist philosophy. In the second chapter, three important references for the creation of Music for the End of the World are presented: Luigi Nono's Prometeo; Francisco López La Selva; and João Pedro Oliveira's Neshamah. In the third chapter, I present the creative process of Music for the End of the World in detail. It starts by describing how the piece was created after the composition of shorter study pieces for different chamber ensembles. Regarding electronics, in that chapter, I discuss the use of synthesized sounds in addition to field recordings. For the synthesized part, the paper also describes each of the instruments I developed in Max/MSP. Finally, it explains the creation of the video using AI image synthesis in Midjourney and their implementation in the piece.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc2179258 |
| Date | 07 1900 |
| Creators | Macedo de Castro Lima, Marcel |
| Contributors | Klein, Joseph, 1962-, Stout, David, Buongiorno Nardelli, Marco |
| Publisher | University of North Texas |
| Source Sets | University of North Texas |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | Text |
| Rights | Public, Macedo de Castro Lima, Marcel, Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights Reserved. |
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