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Peirrot Lunaire
I’ll be writing extensively about my Fulbright project very soon, but in the meantime, I’m working on another project: video projections for a performance of Arnold Schönberg’s Peirrot Lunaire (it can be translated as Moonstruck Clown), which will be performed by mezzo-soprano Laurel Pumphrey next March. I am working on the video imagery in collaboration with Heather Freeman, Professor of Digital Media at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. I saw Heather’s work in Idaho Falls, and loved it! In that case it involved the use of high-tech media, but the technology was used to convey meaning, not for its own sake.
The following is a preliminary video I’ve made for the first poem. Bear in mind that this is intended to be integrated into the musical performance, to create a theatrical experience, so especially for this first poem, I don’t want the imagery to be too dominant, but to introduce the Moon, so to speak, and to take advantage of poet Albert Giraud’s symbolist imagery.
