Character Studies in Transformation of Intimate Spaces: 3D—>2D uses violas (between 1 and 7) and fixed media to engage with political speech and crowd response, as individuals sublimate themselves in the cumulative crowd energy. I set out to create a musical rendering of the hidden tensions in this speech, to search for the human, "three dimensional" space that might exist within what seems like a purposely dehumanizing "two dimensional" speech.
“Intimate spaces” comes from Gaston Bachelard’s “The Poetics of Space,” which uses familiar shapes and motions to explore imagination’s reliance on familiar images to understand ourselves. The character study aspect comes from combining elements of Annea Lockwood’s idea of a sound map with elements of Bachelard to explore an imaginary space: the tense space perceived in a person’s imagination when a human being (3D) behaves in an dehumanizing, cartoonish way (2D).
