{"id":1319,"date":"1988-03-06T14:21:05","date_gmt":"1988-03-06T14:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.teatroarsenale.it\/?p=1319"},"modified":"2023-06-08T10:48:51","modified_gmt":"2023-06-08T10:48:51","slug":"sixty-two-mesostics-re-merce-cunningham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teatroarsenale.it\/en\/sixty-two-mesostics-re-merce-cunningham\/","title":{"rendered":"Sixty-Two Mesostics re Merce Cunningham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>freely adapted from John Cage and Italo Calvino<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">Cathy Berberian gave me \u201cSixty-two Mesostics Re Merce Cunningham,\u201d saying: \u201cTry to do it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">The first thing I saw was a sheaf of 62 pages, each with a different composition of letters of the alphabet. This was the score.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">Looking more closely, a different visual dynamism and a different silence appeared in each composition. I perceived the contrast between those sounds and those silences.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">The production consists of eight symbols of nature (sky, wind, water, lake, fire, thunder, earth, mountain) from which \u2013 through a process of abstraction \u2013 I sought dynamism in space and pathos.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">The musical part also consists of eight variations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">Combining the eight variations of the musical part with the eight of movement, sixty-four possible combinations were obtained.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\"><span class=\"s1\">I would like this open structure to combine with the sensibility of the audience in a personal mandala.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>freely adapted from John Cage and Italo Calvino Cathy Berberian gave me \u201cSixty-two Mesostics Re Merce Cunningham,\u201d saying: \u201cTry to do it.\u201d The first thing I saw was a sheaf of 62 pages, each with a different composition of letters of the alphabet. This was the score. Looking more closely, a different visual dynamism and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1732,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,10],"tags":[135],"class_list":["post-1319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenale-musica","category-arsenale-teatro","tag-135"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.teatroarsenale.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/CAGE1-2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teatroarsenale.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teatroarsenale.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teatroarsenale.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teatroarsenale.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teatroarsenale.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1319"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.teatroarsenale.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1734,"href":"https:\/\/www.teatroarsenale.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319\/revisions\/1734"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teatroarsenale.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teatroarsenale.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teatroarsenale.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teatroarsenale.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}