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A budapesti Zeneakadémia 2000 decemberében mutatta be a Theremin című, elektronikus oratóriumot. A művet az első térvezérlésű elektronikus hangszer, a theremin és feltalálója, Professzor Leon Theremin orosz tudós élettörténete inspirálta. A zeneakadémiai bemutató ötödik évfordulóján, az eredeti oratórium afrikai vonatkozásait kiemelő remixet mutat be a TÁP színház társulata. A Remix Africana zenei alapját az öt évvel ezelőtti zeneakadémiai előadás hangfelvételei szolgáltatják, amelyeket Vajdai Vilmos és DJ NoMore eredeti, a Karib tenger szigetein és Afrikában felvett hangmintákkal gazdagítva kevert újra. A két thereminre, számítógépes animációkra, foszforeszenciára, és táncosnőre komponált remix, műfaját tekintve nem más, mint egy, a Professzor amerikai felesége, a Haiti szigetéről származó fekete táncosnő, Lavinia Williams emlékének szentelt, csirkevér helyett digitális effektusokkal akcentuált voodoo ceremónia. A sötét rituálé során, az elrabolt férjét 30 évig kereső Laviniát megszemélyesítő Nagy Szilvia saját, az időben megfagyott árnyékaival táncol.* * * * *
It is an hour long electronic music (two theremins playing to computer-generated backing tracks), in addition to projected computer animations and contemporary dance. The show is intended to be an electronic voodoo ceremony. The only difference between a traditional voodoo rituale and our theatre performance is that we use digital effects for purification purposes (and for casting spells), instead of chicken blood. It is a special hommage to the great afro-american dancer, Lavinia Williams, wife of the inventor of the world first space controlled electronic instrument, the Russian scientist Leon Theremin.Lavinia Williams was born in Haiti. She married the inventor in 1937, in New York. Shortly after their marriage Professzor Theremin was kidnapped by KGB agents. He was smuggled back to the Soviet Union, where he was sent to the Gulag, for 13 years. He was not allowed to contact his American wife, even after his release from the labor-camp. Lavinia Williams spent 30 years, trying to find her husband, to no avail. After giving up search in the 1970s she moved back to Haiti and started a dance school on the island. She took one of the Professor’s main invention, the Rhytmicon with her. The electronic device provided a set of virtual drums. The drummers played on them by hitting certain spots (each assigned to a different drum sound) in the air, within the vicinity of the equipment’s motion sensors. It must have been kind of a surrealistic experience to see as the Haitian tribal drummers were playing the invisible drums during Lavinia Williams’s dance classes…Her dance-school soon became a center of resistance against the Duvallier dictatorship, which ruled Haiti in that time. The dictator, Papa Doc, who was a practicing voodoo magician, was afraid to put her in jail, because she was an internationally accomplished star. He had her poisoned, instead. After Lavinia’s death, the dictator had the Rhytmicon, the invisible drums brought over to his palace, where he used the machine during his bloody voodoo orgies. His son, Baby Doc inherited the instrument, after his murderous dad died. After the Duvalliers fell from power, Baby Doc had to escape from the island on an American war plane. He took the Haitian state treasure with him, along with the Rhytmicon. He took up residence in the French Riviera, where he lives in a perpetual state of total paranoia ever since. Baby Doc is afraid to leave his fortified villa. He spends most of his time playing on the virtual drums, in the voodoo temple he had built deep beneath his mansion, in his cellar... An excerpt from the show, on video / Részlet az előadásból, videófelvételen
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