XinSheng
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Xinsheng is a 20-minute opera. The storyline follows a young boxer, Andrei, who gets badly injured in an illegal underground fight in Berlin. Fan, a woman in her late thirties working as a nutritionist/pharmacologist, has just fallen in love with Andrei. Fan calls her best friend Anne, a surgeon and her ex-lover, to operate on Andrei in an undercover hangar in the outskirts of Berlin. Because Andrei is about to die, Fan demands that Anne administers Xinsheng to him in order to make the operation and his chances of survival more successful. Xinsheng is a new experimental drug that Fan invented. It has great regenerative properties, but since it's not completely perfected, it also has severe side effects. At first, Anne is reluctant to administer the drug. However, when Fan says she'll never speak to her again (should Andrei die), Anne (still in love with Fan) decides to go along with Fan's plan. In the opera, the ideas of fake versus real and various perspectives on the same event are crucial elements around which the music has been structured. With the use of electronics (notably concatenative sound synthesis) and the compositional strategy called "microlage" (neologism coined by the author from words micro and collage), the music attempts to create atmospheres in which the blurry textures signify the double entendre, floating around, yet never settling for a particular sonic shape or clear musical gesture. The piece was performed and recorded as video by Decoder Ensemble and directed by Heinrich Horwitz in March 2021 in Berlin.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2021; ©2021 |
| Publication date | 2021; 2021 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Vincze, Davor Branimir |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Alessandrini, Patricia, 1970- |
| Thesis advisor | Alessandrini, Patricia, 1970- |
| Thesis advisor | Abel, Jonathan (Jonathan Stuart) |
| Thesis advisor | Ferneyhough, Brian, 1943- |
| Degree committee member | Abel, Jonathan (Jonathan Stuart) |
| Degree committee member | Ferneyhough, Brian, 1943- |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Music |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Davor Branimir Vincze. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Music. |
| Thesis | Thesis DMA Stanford University 2021. |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/ws603jy7975 |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2021 by Davor Branimir Vincze
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial No Derivatives 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC-ND).
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