Description
This project examines contemporary audiovisual languages, focusing on compositional processes that integrate timbral, melodic, and rhythmic elements from the Mediterranean basin with orchestral and electronic music. The analysis spans from 1984, the release year of Dune, to 2024, marked by Hans Zimmer’s score for Dune: Part Two, a model for blending ancient Mediterranean music, orchestral traditions, and electronic soundscapes.
The first goal is to analyze selected film scores from the past forty years to catalog Mediterranean instruments used. The second is to explore how electronic music interacts with orchestral writing and Mediterranean sonorities, particularly Arabic and Greek, creating unprecedented dramaturgical power. The third goal involves developing Dioniso 2.0, a musical library allowing composers to merge visual media with electronically manipulated ancient music, highlighting a method that reconnects humanity with its primordial essence amidst societal fragmentation and recombination.
Dioniso 2.0 will serve as a catalog of sound samples, offering authentic scales and tunings, while showcasing the potential of electronic manipulation techniques. These approaches provide Western composers access to the vast, untapped reservoir of Mediterranean sonorities, encouraging innovation through recombination.
Ultimately, the project identifies a thread linking futuristic, distorted visions of human society with soundtracks that restore a fundamental connection to the origins of humanity. By recovering and reinventing ancient Mediterranean sounds, these compositions offer a pathway to re-establish a germinal link between the past and the present, highlighting the enduring relevance of this cultural heritage in contemporary audiovisual expression.
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