RAMA-RASA PROJECT

2022music, multimedia

RAMA-RASA" is a multimedia project of electroacoustic music, which refers to the principles of the neuroscientist V.S. Ramachandran, contained in the book: "The Tell-Tale Brain". The version we present in this festival, is completely new and unpublished, compared to a first project in 2022. The songs were arranged in a completely different way. He deepened , in various essays, the relationship between neuro-perceptual mechanisms and artistic creation, summarizing it in nine aesthetic laws. For example, one of this laws is the Symmetry. In the case of the Song "Certi Momenti”, for example, both the score and the text have been structured according to a Symmetrical scheme. Our brain loves shortcuts and symmetrical elements that facilitate the aesthetic enjoyment and an easy understanding of sounds, images and texts. The performance of the song "Certi Momenti", referred to a scale of notes defined by the french composer Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992); this scale, played on the keyboard of the guitar, presents a series of symmetries related to the positions on the keys. This structure gives suggestive sounds to the melodies and to the harmonies. The text, composed of six short stanzas, (divided into four verses of which the first is long and the three other shorts), suggests six metaphorical flashes; they would like to express the emotional ambiguities of the passage of time. The “Rama-Rasa” tracks can be performed live on the guitar and through the use of software that recalled pre-recorded clips. related, depending on the case, to the text, the Percussions, the Synthesizers or the Bass.) In addition, a particular sensor allowed the musician to modulate the timbre during sound events by receiving in real time the impulse of the performer’s body movements of approach and retreat.

Type of the project: Performance

Year the project was created: 2022

Duration of the full work entered: 01:10:00

Credits:

DANIELE TORRESAN (AKA "DIDITIX"): COMPOSER, LIVE ELECTRONICS, GUITAR AND BASS.

OMBRETTA CIGNI: LYRICS, VOICE.

RAMA-RASA PROJECT trailer

RAMA-RASA PROJECT PREVIEW SONGS

RAMA-RASA PROJECT preview:I love three of you

2 – PEAK SHIFT – HYPERBOLE (PREVIEW) The essence of a subject (in Sanskrit “Rasa”) is emphasised ( I love three of you)

RAMA-RASA PROJECT Name: Nobody

1 - RAMA-RASA PROJECT (PREVIEW) Tiitle track: Name: Nobody synchrony occurs in the brain that triggers when a group of similar elements is RECOGNIZED.

RAMA-RASA PROJECT Magic (PREVIEW)

3 – CONTRAST Title track: MAGIA (Magic) Relatively sudden change in brightness, in sound, in timbre or other feature, between two homogeneous regions.

RAMA-RASA PROJECT (PREVIEW) TITLE: The problem of Evil)

RAMA-RASA PROJECT (PREVIEW) 4 – ISOLATION The musician emphasises a single source of information - such as form, sound, color, - and deliberately plays down or deletes other sources.

RAMA-RASA PROJECT (PREVIEW) Title track: SYMMETRIES

8 – SYMMETRY Symmetry is a marker for good health, also in the artistic and musical fields symmetry gives pleasure and satisfaction.

RAMA-RASA PROJECT-Title track(PREVIEW): Inside the bone of Nature

ABHORRENCE OF COINCIDENCES We always try to explain coincidences that are considered suspicious by our brain.

RAMA-RASA PROJECT (PREVIEW) Title track: Stay here, don’t go away

ORDERLINESS Our brain loves regularity and the repeated use of sound and rhythms, but in a balance between too much order (boring) and total chaos (not pleasing).

RAMA-RASA PROJECT (PREVIEW) Title track: EVIL EVER

9 – METAPHORS The metaphorical language represents a way to break through the barrier that separates the logical linguistic spirit of the left hemisphere from the dreamlike and intuitive spirit of the right. hemisphere..

RAMA-RASA PROJECT (PREVIEW) Title track: NUMEN NOMEN

5 – PROBLEM SOLVING” The brain loves to solve puzzles, ambiguities and likes to modulate hypothesis in the face of partial perceptions.