Lyrical singers: duets with anxiety

Towards New Lyrical Forms

Stating the general specifications of our interactive opera research project -specific spectator/composer, spectator/work, music/text relationships, specific kinematics, new graphical metaphors of musical entities, we intiate a multimedia creativiy environment which should enable to free the spectator’s emotion.

Automatical Composition of Lyrical Songs

We address the challenging task of automatically composing lyrical songs with matching musical and lyrical features, and we present the first prototype, M.U. SicusApparatus, to accomplish the task. The focus of this paper is especially on generation of art songs (lieds). The proposed approach writes lyrics first and then composes music to match the lyrics. The crux is that the music composition...

Thing and Word : On the Lyrical Museum

Normally, things are selected for museum display for one of three reasons. Either very old and rare things are selected by virtue of being one of a kind or intrinsically valuable, in which case we have a thesaurus-museum, a treasure trove like the Kremlin Armory or exhibits from the Diamond Fund. Or things possessing the significance of typicality are chosen for their ability to represent an en...

Chest vibrations in singers

Anisotropia: movements towards a lyrical design

As different as music and architecture are, the two forms of art also share a close relationship, and many composition and design concepts can become applicable to both. Historically the two disciplines have often been related on an emotional level, however the work of Orproject attempts a direct transformation from one to the other on an underlying structural level. By transforming time based ...