Roman
parkhomenko
''Opera DIVE has become a great multi-disciplinary artistic research for the whole team. For more than a year, this theme haunted me in various compositions that I wrote in parallel with the opera. This opera became a real dive that captured our minds.''
Roman Parkhomenko (composer)
'“When we began to explore all this, we realized that the land we walk on is an unknown space, it is a mystery.”
Ruslan Bitsoev (director)
Opera
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Electroacoustic art&science opera by Roman Parkhomenko
DIVE is a multidisciplinary electroacoustic art&science opera. It is based, on the one hand, on the legend of an unstaged Japanese opera, where a girl reconstructs an earthquake that happened once, and on the other hand, research and experiments that were carried out jointly with scientists from various scientific institutions.”
We "plunged" into the bowels of the Earth and studied its seismic activity. It is the processes of this phenomenon with its mysteries, symptoms and paradoxes that lie in the dramatic, musical and visual foundations of the operatic work. The real data of the earthquake - the seismic activity of the Earth, as well as the processes that precede earthquakes - the precursors - are turned into a score and manifest through voices and the objective world.
"Dive" is a story about an attempted reconstruction of an earthquake on a dinner table.
World premiere
31.10.2021 - Moscow new opera Theater
#diving into the earth #the theme of the Earth:
The main direction of the opera is immersion deep into the Earth and “inside” geological processes that are constantly developing in time
#vibrations: The earth is seen as a constantly vibrating body. Interested in the interaction and interrelation of microvibrations (microtremmolations) of various bodies and the seismic activity of the planet with its gigantic amplitudes.
#interaction and mutual influence: Also of interest is the influence of these internal processes (plate movement, seismic activity) on phenomena that occur on the surface of the planet (volcanic eruptions, etc.), in the atmosphere (meteorology) and in outer space (gravitational effects, planetary motion, change in the radius of the Earth, etc.); also influence on the person and interaction with him.
#interaction and mutual influence: Also of interest is the influence of these internal processes (plate movement, seismic activity) on phenomena that occur on the surface of the planet (volcanic eruptions, etc.), in the atmosphere (meteorology) and in outer space (gravitational effects, planetary motion, change in the radius of the Earth, etc.); also influence on the person and interaction with him.
#human perception: In view of the undeniable influence of these processes on a person, in addition to purely scientific, one of the ways to perceive all these processes is research through the prism of consciousness, through the subjective sensations of the human senses. The study is based on the intersection of scientific and subjective.
The chime is ringing
So tectonic
The plates are at war
Leaving the hole
The snakes covered the highway
Earth Signals
Weather vane on the roof
Weather change
Stopped
#Combining accurate scientific data and subjectivity feelings of worldview and human knowledge.
#Influencing the human body #Earthquake perception
