Bach's '3rd Suite for Cello' interpreted through dance.
Yo-Yo Ma: Inspired by Bach - The Sound of the Carceri
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THE SOUND OF THE CARCERI explores the deep relationship between music and architecture through a high-tech 'virtual confrontation' between Bach and his contemporary, the architect Giovanni Battista Piranesi. Using a striking visual style, director Francois Girard ('The Red Violin' and 'Thirty-Two Short Films about Glenn Gould') places Yo-Yo Ma within a series of computer-generated, three-dimensional recreations of Piranesi's well-known prison etchings.
Through Yo-Yo Ma's and music producer Steven Epstein's struggle to recreate and interact with the imaginary space that Ma performs in, the film examines the complexity of illusion, of representation and reality.
'Explores the common ground between music and architecture, including tension, space, proportions and material. Computer-generated 3-D re-creations allow viewers to see Ma 'playing inside a picture,' while hearing how the piece would sound inside the prisons themselves.' Music Educators Journal
'The resulting effects are wondrous.' Richard McRae, Associate Librarian, University at Buffalo Music Library, MC Journal
Citation
Main credits
Ma, Yo-Yo (host)
Ma, Yo-Yo (instrumentalist)
Girard, François (film director)
Girard, François (editor of moving image work)
Fichman, Niv (film producer)
Epstein, Steven (on-screen participant)
Wilton-Ely, John (on-screen participant)
Other credits
Computer graphic design, Pedro Pires; director of photography, Alain Dostie.
Distributor subjects
Art/Architecture; European Studies; Film Studies; Humanities; Music; Performing Arts; SoundKeywords
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-The Prelude of the Second Suite
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was the very first piece of music
I performed
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when I was five years old.
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It\'s almost 35 years ago
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that I started to get to know
this work.
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That and then the first recording
when I was about 25 or 26
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was made at a time when I was young,
just started out professionally.
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Now, I feel
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I\'m at a time when I can actually
reconsider a number of things.
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-This film has to do
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with the exploration
of the common ground
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between music and architecture,
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of all the things that include
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tension, space,
proportions, material.
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I think that music, which is sound,
exists in time and space.
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Architecture deals
with some of the same elements
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I\'d like to find.
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I think that the two have
an incredible amount in common.
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-Today,
we listened to the Bach Suites.
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In a very complicated world
with lots of music around,
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it means something
very special to people.
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We look at Piranesi\'s drawings.
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Still, it is an incredibly
powerful method
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of thinking about architecture.
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In fact, these two people
who don\'t, in a way, belong together,
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are coming together in this film
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for a very specific purpose
because their work is somehow alive.
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-I think we\'re going to try
and do something pretty unusual.
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Nothing that we\'re doing actually exists,
putting me in a space
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that exists in a drawing,
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but I\'m actually going to be
in that space
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or pretend I\'m in that space
playing dance music
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that was never danced to.
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All of this is, in fact,
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we\'re trying
to show something in film
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that doesn\'t exist
except in our minds.
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-People tend to think of Piranesi
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as the greatest topographical
engraver of all time,
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but we have to think of Piranesi
essentially as architect.
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He was trained as an architect.
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His father was a stonemason
and a building contractor.
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His uncle was the leading architect
of the harbor works in Venice.
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He was trained as an architect.
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He had a destiny, as he saw it,
to reform architecture.
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He saw himself
as Architetto Veneziano,
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and he engraved himself
in that kind of manner.
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When he came to Rome,
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there was very little opportunity
for a practicing architect,
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and so he channeled his energies
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financially to earn a livelihood
into engraved views.
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He learned the arts of etching,
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and then he put all his
architectural energy
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into his views of Rome,
the Vedute di Roma,
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which was souvenirs
for the English grand tourist.
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He also crusaded, right through his life,
to reform architecture
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from his etchings
and his personal inspiration.
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The only chance he ever had to really
build seriously was in the 1760s
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when he built this church at the Priorato,
here in Rome.
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-The one theme I think of this project is
Yo-Yo\'s interaction,
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how he would play differently
after viewing the pictures.
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If Yo-Yo is in a concert hall
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playing a concert,
he\'ll play one way.
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His interaction with the audience,
this direct feedback that he would get,
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creates a certain spontaneity
and allows him to play a certain way.
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If he\'s in another environment,
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perhaps the recording studio,
he\'ll play differently.
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Well, now,
you have a rather complex issue,
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where he\'s performing,
trying to imagine
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and gain a certain inspiration
from these etchings.
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In a sense, it\'s a spiritual thing.
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He\'ll be imagining
what him being placed in the Carceri
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is rather ominous structure
playing Bach Second Suite.
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-Yo-Yo, we need to put it
along with the distant mics
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that we\'re giving you now.
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We need to put a little bit of artificial
reverberation to lengthen the decay.
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That\'s going to take
about a minute or two.
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We\'ll let you know
when we\'re done with that.
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-This chapel is real.
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Obviously, this is a jumping-off point
to yet another imaginary step.
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Everything we\'re talking about is
in the realm of thought and imagination,
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very hard things to quantify,
but we\'re going to try to do that.
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-There are two elements
in this process,
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in this particular process
of trying to recreate
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a venue that doesn\'t really exist.
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The first process is
Yo-Yo seeing the engravings of Piranesi
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and then performing Bach\'s music,
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imagining what it would be like,
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almost in a spiritual sense,
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to play in this in the Carceri.
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That\'s rather abstract,
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but I think quantifiable,
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whereas the second element
in the process is
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acoustically creating
an audio virtual reality.
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What we will be doing is
taking the microphones
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that we have in different places
in the chapel here
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and feeding Yo-Yo
through a pair of headphones
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a very rough mix of how we perceive
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it would sound in this particular venue
that Yo-Yo is trying to imagine.
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-Can I start?
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-You are now in another environment.
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Why don\'t you try it with that?
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-All right.
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-Steve,
I have to tell you something.
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I don\'t know
whether this is the way you mean this,
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but from playing in cathedrals,
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this is much more reverb
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than it\'s even in the biggest cathedral
I\'ve ever played in.
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-Very possibly.
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-In a sense,
we were just exaggerating it.
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We could really try
to put you in that space
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and see how you would react
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and how you would change
your performance.
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-What\'s happening is that
all the notes run into one another
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even at a slow tempo.
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-The question is really
from a perspective question.
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In other words, even in a cathedral
with the longest decay,
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you wouldn\'t hear it
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the way you\'re hearing it
over the headphones, obviously.
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The way it\'s being heard
over the headphones is as
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is from the vantage point
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of somebody listening
at a much greater distance.
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-Right, I understand that.
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Right now, how much reverb is there?
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-About 12 seconds.
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-Give me eight
and see what that sounds like.
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Steve: Got that, eight.
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-Nothing like building your own space.
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Steve: [chuckles]
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-That\'s good.
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Because you can grade it,
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I can see you have
lots of possibilities.
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You can do a whole number of things
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depending on
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-what the camera system is going to be.
-The vantage point of the camera.
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-Exactly. If you really do have
that gradation ability,
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then I accept whatever you-
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Steve: This has been fairly crude,
in a sense.
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-Right.
-[crosstalk] to look at,
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-we have a much better--
-That\'s already much better than yesterday
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from certainly what I heard
on the headphones.
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Steve: The other effect yesterday had
none of your presence close mic.
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That would have been somebody
watching you from a great distance.
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-Can I now go record the [?]?
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Steve: It would be our pleasure.
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-Or should I just go record the [?]?
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Steve: I prefer the latter.
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-Thank you.
-Great.
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-In this viable performance
that we just heard
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in this very reverberant acoustic,
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if you were to perform it
the same way in a dryer hall,
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I don\'t think
it would be successful.
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-It would sound lousy.
-It would be exaggerated.
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-Yes, absolutely.
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-What does that mean also?
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You can make or break a performance
depending on the hall you\'re in.
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-That\'s not entirely actually--
-I think that\'s true.
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You know what, Steve?
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I spend an hour
on a day of the concert
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in a new hall,
walking around the hall,
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the way you do it
for a recording session.
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Very often moving a chair
or piano several inches
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makes or breaks a performance
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because it\'s either
unbelievably disgusting,
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hard to listen to,
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and it\'s effort fall
in the wrong ways
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or it starts to say
it\'s using the hall.
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The way that we talk
about every performance
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should be different
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because you\'re different every day.
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How often do we say that
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but do we really believe it?
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This is actually the first time
I have physical proof
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that this is in fact true
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even though we\'re doing it
in an imaginary space.
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-There is more boom.
Strangely enough,
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-there is more boom.
-[?] a little
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-further off.
-You hear a difference?
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-Yes. It\'s a paradox
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because we\'re hearing
a little more presence,
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but we\'re also hearing
a little more boom,
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believe it or not,
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in this new position.
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-Okay. This is in between
the second and third position.
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-It\'s not bad.
-[?]
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-I think we should
go out for a second.
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We\'re coming out. Thanks.
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-I now have two choices,
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okay?
-Yes.
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-I hear that.
-No, hold on.
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Let me try.
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Here.
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-That\'s more linear.
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-Sounds good.
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-Listen,
let me just show you something.
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The difference
is a quarter of an inch.
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Is that incredible?
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-It is.
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-I think some of the things
that we\'ve discussed
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include the idea of what is reality?
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What is fantasy?
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What is reality for sound?
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What is reality in terms of space?
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What is reality in terms of time?
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What\'s reality in terms of memory?
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Since you can show music
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as a definite form of energy
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in a space in time,
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it is also
a lot of undefinable things
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that deal with our inner life
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including memory,
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spirituality,
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abstract forms,
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and it\'s also
a codification of emotion.
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The things that
we talked about yesterday,
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the day before,
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let\'s put ourselves
in an imaginary space.
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What does that mean?
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Very difficult thing to do
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but yet, through Steve\'s ingenuity,
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I can put on headphones
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and actually react to a space
that is imaginary,
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and then it becomes
a more real space
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because I can hear it
or it\'s my mind
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or now I have a memory of it.
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-As I think
of Yo-Yo playing the suites
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or any one of the suits
in different places,
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I cannot but help feel that
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the environment has
a profound impact.
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I told you before the story
about him playing the first week
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in the seashore in Aqaba
with the sound of the sea waves.
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I think that the case here is that
he is not in a Piranesi space.
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He is reading the Piranesi space;
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he\'s actually not
within the Piranesi space.
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Here we come to the question
that\'s very profound,
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which is the difference
between architecture as real experience
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and the experiencing of architecture
through another medium
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which relies on our perception
and our fantasies.
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Yo-Yo playing
in a real Piranesi space,
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actually three-dimensional,
actually constructed,
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actually that infinite,
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going up hundreds of meters,
real sunlight coming through,
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is one thing.
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Yo-Yo playing this
thinking of his perception of that space,
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two-dimensionally coming off
a piece of paper,
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is another thing.
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Graphics,
renditions are not architecture,
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and never are architecture,
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models not architecture.
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This is the curse of architecture today
that people believe
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that a piece of paper
or a piece of wood is architecture,
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neither are architecture.
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Both are attempts to make us
feel something about architecture,
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think something about architecture
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that we might if it\'s created.
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If Yo-Yo was to sit
in the real thing,
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it would be profoundly different
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to his sitting in front of the picture,
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or in your computer graphic construct.
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-Were you thinking of the [?] in there?
-Actually, yes.
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I actually was trying very much
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to think of when we had
a discussion yesterday;
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François told us exactly
what drawings he had chosen
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and what the camera
movement was going to be.
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The sidebar would have
a two and a half turn
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in one of the places
and then in the prelude is,
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you\'re in this space,
and they\'re looking from outside inside.
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I do have a sense
00:29:29.518 --> 00:29:31.666
because he has a sense
of what he wants to communicate
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visually, emotionally.
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-You\'re imagining of this space,
you\'re thinking of this space,
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I don\'t think it\'s the same
as actually being in this space.
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-No, I don\'t think
it\'s the same either
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but the visual stuff is,
in fact, it always affects it.
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That I\'ve proven to myself
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many times by actually
having students play in spaces
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and having them look at a space
or make eye contact or look at something.
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It actually completely changes
the sound that comes out.
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So in fact,
it\'s a mental visual manipulation.
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-Yes, that seems to follow
through on the [?].
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-Okay, good, so, [?].
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-If I had to describe the Carceri
to somebody who had not seen them,
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and I think this is
an important exercise
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because it really forces
one to actually distill the essence
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of these very remarkable works,
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I would say that
they\'re essentially works
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which have a profound
catalytic force upon the imagination.
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They are after all scenes of prisons,
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eventually 16 plates,
00:36:44.212 --> 00:36:49.564
all of them variants
on the sense of a kind of claustrophobia,
00:36:49.732 --> 00:36:51.388
a sense of frustration,
00:36:51.626 --> 00:36:55.998
great Roman arches,
and caverns of architecture,
00:36:56.166 --> 00:36:59.820
which had that sense
of frustration about them,
00:36:59.988 --> 00:37:02.121
that sense of imprisonment
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in which there is almost no parallel
in European engraving or art,
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certainly in the 18th century
and possibly no later century.
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This is one of the reasons
why the Carceri has continued to be
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such an incredible stimulus
upon writers and film directors
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and even musicians in this sense.
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Yo-Yo: Another way of structuring things
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in composition through symbolism
could be keys.
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Richard: Yes, and of course, for Bach
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you know, these keys are
really quintessential
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in terms of what he\'s trying
to communicate with his listener.
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D minor most particularly
means something very significant
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-for [?].
-And I think this key,
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to me, has a sense of loneliness.
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Richard: Very much so,
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isolation and struggle.
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It deals with a profoundly
human struggle,
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and it\'s interesting to note
that profoundly human struggle,
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which is seen in Bach and the Passions
in which we hear with this solo voice
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that sings and dances
in the D minor suite,
00:38:21.287 --> 00:38:23.248
is also there in other composers.
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It\'s there in the D minor
Ninth Symphony of Beethoven,
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that human struggle.
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I wasn\'t really sure
what the connections were
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between Bach and Piranesi,
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and also particularly
between the second suite,
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which is in D minor,
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and the Carceri.
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So I began to think about D minor
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and what it meant,
and what were the associations for Bach
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with the key of D minor?
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Immediately, I started looking
at other work in D minor,
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but most specifically
00:38:56.480 --> 00:38:59.464
that of the St John
and the St Matthew Passion.
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In the St John Passion, of course,
there is a fantastic moment
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toward the beginning of the work
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which is in D minor,
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in which there is an aria
that comments on
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Jesus just having been
in the dramatic action,
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led away in chains, in bondage,
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from the Garden of Gethsemane
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and the aria is really
a musical depiction,
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in the baroque sense
of bondage and imprisonment.
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This I thought was
really quite significant
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as it relates
to the idea of the Carceri.
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-There\'s another profound comparison
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between those two works,
00:39:46.142 --> 00:39:48.700
the Second Suite of Bach
and the Carceri,
00:39:48.907 --> 00:39:52.146
a great sense of containment
and imprisonment.
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After all, they are prisons,
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and many people even interpreted
00:39:56.696 --> 00:39:59.782
the title that Piranesi
gave to his plates
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in the second version in 1761,
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the Carceri d\'Invenzione
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as the prisons of the imagination.
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As if the imagination
was being contained and imprisoned
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in some powerful way.
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People like Aldous Huxley
have seen the sense of imprisonment
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in terms of Kafka,
their sense of frustration,
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where the human being
is dwarfed by the architecture
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and led into fathomless journeys,
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which leads to nowhere
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and a great sense
of frustration and angst.
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-Often, work of artist is looked at,
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\"Is it beautiful?\"
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I would prefer to look at it as,
\"Is it true?\"
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I think when you deal
with moments of truth,
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sometimes it can be beautiful,
sometimes it could be terrible,
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but it\'s actually a fusion
of a lot of things.
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What\'s interesting about
Bach and Piranesi, for example, is
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we spent a lot of time
trying to get inside their minds.
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What\'s interesting is,
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we\'ve actually been dealing
00:41:09.815 --> 00:41:11.791
using the best of what,
00:41:12.251 --> 00:41:13.885
live people can do
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is getting a communication
between the living and the dead
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and bringing them
in a different form to the present.
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The best of what they were
can still live on.
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That actually is one
definition of culture.
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Steve, could you just tell me
when you’re ready?
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Steve: [?]
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This is Bach Suite Number Two,
Menuet, take one.
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Steve: This was the Baroque style,
correct?
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Yo-Yo: Yes. How\'s that?
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-That sounds appropriate
for the space.
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It sounded very natural.
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Yo-Yo: That\'s slightly better
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than the last version, don\'t you think?
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-Yes, the last version,
you were still, I think,
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feeling your way in this acoustic.
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-Yes.
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I actually think that the Baroque way
would be closer
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to what one could achieve.
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-We haven\'t really heard enough
to make any final decision,
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but we\'re moving
in the right direction.
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If you were to play more,
we\'ll let you know what\'s happening.
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Yo-Yo: Okay.
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[Cello music]
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Yo-Yo: What?
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-I prefer that
to the full Baroque style
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-of holding the bow.
-It\'s just actually a matter of-
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-[?] pressure thing, isn\'t it? [?]
-Yes.
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-I think you should hear it.
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You may feel totally the opposite.
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Yo-Yo: Okay, let\'s go, listen.
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-Yes, fine.
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-Oh, boy.
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We\'ll be here all night.
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I want to get out of here.
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Now, are you happy with,
that the version that we made,
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does that approximate?
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Will that stand the test of being put
in the space of the Carceri?
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-Oh, I think definitely.
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Frankly,
the turning point in all of this
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was, in fact, the headphone experiment
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but also the sound that you were producing
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when you changed
your bowing technique.
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It shed a whole different light
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on the performance,
on the interpretation.
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I think your concept
of how the music should be played.
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-We\'re all joining the trip.
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The trip is provoked
by the etchings.
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Steven, in his own way,
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through sound, is joining the trip
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and Yo-Yo
and all of us joined the trip.
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We\'re immersed in those drawings
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and we\'re imagining them
and we\'re flowing in them.
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Undoubtedly,
that\'s not just talking about them,
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looking at them; thinking about them
has had a profound impact.
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Being here, being in the city,
I think has had a profound impact.
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One side of me cannot talk
but speculate,
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what to me is
a fascinating speculation,
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which is, what will the real Carceri
have done to all of us?
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In what way would we be different
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being in that Carceri,
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if that was imaginable?
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I say that
because I know the difference
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between representation and reality.
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We looked at the music note
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and we said, there is a music,
but it\'s not yet reality.
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As we read the notes,
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it\'s playing in our mind,
it\'s almost reality.
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Then Yo-Yo plays it,
it\'s another reality.
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He plays it second time,
it\'s the second reality.
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The third time is the third reality.
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The room is a bit different,
so that modifies it again.
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That\'s true
of the visual world as well.
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-Sometimes when something is done
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that you\'ve put so much effort into,
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at the moment of finishing,
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I often feel, I\'m in a dream world,
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because it\'s hard to say,
\"Do I feel fulfilled?\"
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Or \"Am I glad it\'s over?\"
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\"Yes, in a way.\"
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\"Do I wish it went on?\"
\"Possibly,\"
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but it\'s so intense,
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it\'s hard to know exactly
where you are.
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What I can say, is that
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we followed in a way Piranesi credo,
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which was for him,
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he wanted people
in the arts, architects
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to study their medium
with as much attention and profundity
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that others studied nature.
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I think for this project,
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we\'ve really done that.
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For that, I feel very privileged
and very proud.
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Distributor: Bullfrog Films
Length: 55 minutes
Date: 1998
Genre: Expository
Language: Not available
Grade: 7-12, College, Adult
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Closed Captioning: Available
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