Marcello Mercado
SUMMA – Notations, 2020
HD video de un solo canal,
4min 12sec
stereo 16: 9 black / white
Performance
Marcello Mercado
SUMMA – Notations, 2020
HD video de un solo canal,
4min 12sec
stereo 16: 9 black / white
Performance
Keywords:
recontextualisation, notations, invention, user culture, participation, dematerialisation, WHYUWWM, decontextualisation, performance, software application/program, human-human (artist interaction), human-computer, human-human (audience interaction), public space, offer a game, visualize, enhance perception, serve as an instrument, mediate, process, transform, store, exchange information, activate, explore, participate, navigate, co-author, leave traces, custom, monitor/screen, projection, sound acoustic, speakers, microphone, mass media, social relations
Description:
SUMMA – Notations, 2020
This work explore the possibility to build a «musical-compost» with the debris of some compositions from the classic period rewriting a new kind of notes and system of values.
debris:1. the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up; junk; rubble; detritus
2.broken or torn pieces of something larger
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/debris
I have designed 210 Notations or graphemes (symbols that can mean anything and can be combined) that are visual generated by typing a laptop as if it were a normal typography. Each Notation/ grapheme is related with a 1 second- sound. This second is the result of the shrinking time of the total running time of one classical composition:
Some examples:
Notation A = 1 second <= shrink <= of the Mass in B minor by Johann S. Bach (original duration 135 minutes)
Notation B = 1 second <= shrink <= of Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (original duration 175 minutes)
Notation C = 1 second <= shrink <= of Tristan und Isolde by Richard Wagner (original duration 226 minutes)
By typing on the keyboard emerge a mass of noises.
Jorge Luis Borges’s Aleph is a point in space that contains all other points, where is possible to see «the universe from every angle simultaneously, without distortion, overlapping or confusion«.
The idea is to build a notation and a system that could contains all the compositions with distortion, overlapping and confusion.
Also typing without looking is useful to listen without interruptions.
Materials:
1 projector
1 Laptop (Mac) System OSX connected to the projector
2 Loudspeakers
1 screen or 1 white wall
1 small table
Software used:
Audio: Audacity, microKORG, NH4
Graphic: Fontographer 5, Illustrator CS5, Photoshop CS5
Hardware used:
Macbook Pro, NH4
Complete Set of Selected Compositions:
12. Symphony No. 6 in B minor «Pathetique» – Peter Ilitch Tchaikovsky Duration 58 minutes
13. Otello – Giuseppe Verdi
Duration 2 hours 20 minutes
14. Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor «Appassionata» – Ludwig Van Beethoven Average Duration 23 minutes
15. The Marriage of Figaro – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Average Duration 3 hours 20 minutes
16. Symphony No. 41 in C major «Jupiter» – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Duration 32 minutes 56 seconds
17. Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Average Duration 30 minutes
18. Well-Tempered Clavier – Johann Sebastian Bach
Duration 2 hours 33 minutes
19. Symphony No. 9 in E minor «From the New World» – Antonin Dvorák
Duration 41 minutes
20. Winterreise – Franz Schubert
Average Duration 70 minutes
21. Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat major – Johannes Brahms
Duration 45 minutes
22. Piano Concerto in A minor – Robert Schumann
Average Duration 30 minutes
23. String Quintet in C major – Franz Schubert
Average Duration 55 minutes
24. Aida – Giuseppe Verdi
Duration 1 hour 3 minutes
25. Piano Concerto No. 5 in E flat major «Emperor» – Ludwig Van Beethoven
Duration 37 minutes
26. The Nutcracker – Peter Ilitch Tchaikovsky
Duration 85 minutes
27. Messiah – George Frideric Handel
Duration 1 hour 58 minutes 24 seconds
28. Rite of Spring – Igor Stravinsky
Duration 33 minutes
28. Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor – Johann Sebastian Bach
Average Duration 13 minutes
29. Symphony No. 40 in G minor – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Duration 7 minutes 25 seconds
30. Symphony No. 4 in E minor – Johannes Brahms
Average Duration 40 minutes
31. The Goldberg Variations – Johann Sebastian Bach
Duration 1 hour 13 minutes
32. A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Felix Mendelssohn
Duration 30 minutes
33. Violin Concerto in E minor – Felix Mendelssohn
Duration 26 minutes 51 seconds
34. Symphony No. 9 in C major «The Great» – Franz Schubert
Average Duration 55 minutes
35. Pictures at an Exhibition – Modest Mussorgsky
Duration 33 minutes 32 seconds
36. Clarinet Quintet in A major «Stadler» – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Average Duration 32 minutes
37. Prelude A L’apres Midi D’un Faune – Claude Debussy
Average Duration 10 minutes
38. Symphonie Fantastique – Hector Berlioz
Duration 55 minutes
39. Clarinet Quintet in B minor – Johannes Brahms
Average Duration 35 minutes
40. Petrouchka – Igor Stravinsky
Duration 35 minutes
41. Violin Concerto in D major – Ludwig Van Beethoven
Duration 25 minutes
42. La Boheme – Giacomo Puccini
Average Duration 2 hours 3 minutes
43. Piano Sonata in B minor – Franz Liszt
Average Duration 30 minutes
44. Cello Concerto in B minor – Antonin Dvorák
Average Duration 40 minutes
45. The Four Seasons – Antonio Vivaldi
Average Duration 50 minutes 50 seconds
46. Swan Lake – Peter Ilitch Tchaikovsky
Average Duration 2 hours 20 minutes
47. Piano Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor – Peter Ilitch Tchaikovsky
Average Duration 35 minutes
48. Piano Sonata No. 21 in B flat – Franz Schubert
Duration 1 hour 15 minutes 55 seconds
49. Till Eulenspiegel – Richard Strauss
Duration 49 minutes
50. Symphony No. 8 in B minor «Unfinished» – Franz Schubert
Average Duration 25 minutes
51. Missa Solemnis – Ludwig Van Beethoven
Average Duration 1 hour 20 minutes
52. Messa Da Requiem – Giuseppe Verdi
Duration 1 hour 21 minutes 34 seconds
53. Piano Sonata No. 14 in C sharp minor «Moonlight» – Ludwig Van Beethoven
Duration 16 minutes 49 seconds
54. Symphony No. 5 in C sharp minor – Gustav Mahler
Duration 1 hour 09 minutes 18 seconds
55. Symphony No. 2 in D minor – Jean Sibelius
Average Duration 45 minutes
56. Requiem – Gabriel Fauré Average
Duration 30 minutes
57. Madama Butterfly – Giacomo Puccini
Duration 1 hour 18 minutes
58. String Quartet No. 14 in D minor «Death & the Maiden» – Franz Schubert
Duration 54 minutes
59. Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor – Sergei Rachmaninoff
Duration 34 minutes
60. La Mer – Claude Debussy
Duration 23 minutes 32 seconds
61. 24 Preludes – Frederic Chopin
Duration 31 minutes 36 seconds
62. Water Music Suite no 1 in F major – George Frideric Handel
Duration 29 minutes 23 seconds
63. Violin Concerto in D major – Johannes Brahms
Duration 40 minutes
64. Piano Quintet in A major «The Trout» – Franz Schubert
Duration 40 minutes
65. String Quartet No. 13 in B flat major and Grosse Fugue – Ludwig van Beethoven
Average Duration 50 minutes
66. Also Sprach Zarathustra – Richard Strauss
Average Duration 33 minutes
67. Violin Partita No. 2 in D minor – Johann Sebastian Bach
Duration 24 minutes 34 seconds
68. Préludes, Book 1 – Claude Debussy
Duration 36 minutes 18 seconds
69. Piano Concerto in A minor – Edvard Grieg
Average Duration 28 minutes
71. Polonaise No. 6 in A flat major «Heroic» – Frederic Chopin
Duration 7 Minutes 17 seconds
72. Symphony No. 2 in C minor «Resurrection» – Gustav Mahler
Average Duration 80-90 minutes
73. Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major – Ludwig Van Beethoven
Duration 34 minutes
74. Symphony No. 10 in E minor – Dmitri Shostakovich
Duration 51 minutes
75. String Quartet No. 15 in A minor – Ludwig van Beethoven
Duration 1 hour 07 minutes 21 seconds
76. Symphony No. 5 in D minor – Dmitri Shostakovich
Average Duration 45 minutes
77. String Quintet No. 4 in G minor, K516 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Average Duration 45 minutes
78. Parsifal – Richard Wagner
Average Duration 4 hours 15 minutes
79. Finlandia – Jean Sibelius
Average Duration 4 hours 51 minutes
80. Ein Heldenleben – Richard Strauss
Average Duration 1 hour 3 minutes
81. Der Rosenkavalier – Richard Strauss
Average Duration 3 hours 11 minutes
82. Appalachian Spring – Aaron Copland
Duration 45 minutes
83. Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor – Ludwig Van Beethoven
Average Duration 1 hour 14 minutes
84. Boris Godunov – Modest Mussorgsky
Average Duration 1 hour 5 minutes
85. Symphony No. 3 in F major – Johannes Brahms
Average Duration 1 hour 17 minutes
86. La Traviata – Giuseppe Verdi
Average Duration 1 hour
87. Carmen – Georges Bizet
Duration 2 hours 38 minutes
88. Scheherazade – Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Duration 1 hour 1 minute
89. Die Zauberflote – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Duration 2 hours 24 minutes
90. Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Duration 28 minutes 11 seconds
91. Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Average Duration 30 minutes
92. Requiem – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Duration 50 minutes 12 seconds
93. Missa Papae Marcelli – Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Duration 1 hour 15 minutes 55 seconds
94. Die Meistersinger – Richard Wagner
Duration 4 hours 17 minutes
95. Symphony No. 39 in E flat major – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Duration 10 minutes 45 seconds
96. The Creation – Franz Joseph Haydn
Duration 2 hours 35 minutes
97. Sleeping Beauty – Peter Ilitch Tchaikovsky
Duration 4 minutes 21 seconds
98. Symphony No. 7 in E major – Anton Bruckner
Duration 1 hour 10 minutes
99. Romeo and Juliet – Peter Ilitch Tchaikovsky
Duration 22 minutes
100. Concerto for Orchestra – Béla Bartók
Duration 1 hour 16 minutes
101. German Requiem – Johannes Brahms
Average Duration 1 hour 10 minutes
102. Symphony No. 4 in F minor – Peter Ilitch Tchaikovsky
Average Duration 46 minutes
103. Symphony No. 1 in C minor – Johannes Brahms
Average Duration 45 minutes
104. Piano Quintet in F minor – Johannes Brahms
Average Duration 41 minutes
105. Serenade No. 13 in G major «Eine Kleine Nachtmusik» – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Average Duration 63 minutes
106. String Quartet No. 12 in F major «American» – Antonin Dvorák
Average Duration 30 minutes
107. String Quartet No. 19 in C major «Dissonance» – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Duration 31 minutes 12 seconds
108. Clarinet Concerto in A major – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Duration 28 minutes
109. Violin Concerto in D major – Peter Ilitch Tchaikovsky
Duration 35 minutes
110. Concerto for 2 Violins in D minor – Johann Sebastian Bach
Duration 14 minutes
111. Symphony No. 9 in D minor – Gustav Mahler
Average duration 75-85 minutes
112. Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F major – Johann Sebastian Bach
Duration 12 minutes
113. Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D major – Johann Sebastian Bach
Duration 21 minutes
114. Firebird Suite – Igor Stravinsky
Duration 21 minutes
115. Toccata and Fugue in D minor – Johann Sebastian Bach
Duration 9 minutes
116. Symphony No. 4 in E flat major «Romantic» – Anton Bruckner
Duration 1 hour 5 minutes
117. Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Average duration 25 minutes
118. Vespro della Beata Vergine (Vespers of 1610) – Claudio Monteverdi
Average Duration 2 hours 22 minutes
119. Symphony No. 4 in A major «Italian» – Felix Mendelssohn
Average duration 26 minutes
120. Piano Trio No. 7 in B flat major, Op. 97 «Archduke» – Ludwig van Beethoven
Average duration 40 minutes
121. Requiem Grande Messe des Morts – Hector Berlioz
Duration 1 hour 30 minutes
122. War Requiem – Benjamin Britten
Duration 2 hours 12 minutes
123. Tosca – Giacomo Puccini
Duration 1 hour 59 minutes
124. Falstaff – Giuseppe Verdi
Duration 2 hours 8 minutes
125. Die Schone Mullerin – Franz Schubert
Duration 1 hour 11 minutes
126. Carmina Burana – Carl Orff
Duration 1 hour 1 minute
127. String Quartet No. 2 in D major «Nocturne» – Alexander Borodin
Duration 1 hour 17 minutes
128. Rigoletto – Giuseppe Verdi
Duration 1 hour 52 minutes
129. Glagolitic Mass – Leos Janácek
Duration 1 hour 3 minutes
130. The Barber of Seville – Gioacchino Rossini
Duration 2 hours 31 minutes
131. Rhapsody in Blue – George Gershwin
Duration 59 minutes
132. Cello Concerto in E minor – Edward Elgar
Duration 1 hour 9 minutes
133. Sinfonia Concertante in E flat major – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Duration 10 minutes 45 seconds
134. Symphony No. 38 in D major «Prague» – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Duration 12 minutes 51 seconds
135. Cantata No. 140, Wachet Auf – Johann Sebastian Bach
Duration 1 hour 4 minutes
136. Octet for Strings in E flat major – Felix Mendelssohn
Duration 2 hours 3 minutes
137. String Quartet in C major, Op. 76 No. 3 «Emperor» – Joseph Haydn
Duration 1 hour 6 minutes
138. Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis – Ralph Vaughan Williams
Duration 49 minutes
139. Violin Sonata in A major – César Franck
Duration 28 minutes 12 seconds
140. Symphony No. 3 in C minor «Organ» – Camille Saint-Saëns
Duration 52 minutes
141. Missa Pange Lingua – Josquin des Prez
Duration 52 minutes
142. Dichterliebe – Robert Schumann
Duration 1 hour 7 minutes
143. Symphony No. 94 in G major «Surprise» – Franz Joseph Haydn
Duration 54 minutes
144. Symphony No. 101 in D major «The Clock» – Franz Joseph Haydn
Duration 1 hour 15 minutes
145. Les Preludes – Franz Liszt
Duration 2 hours 32 minutes
146. Symphony No. 5 in B flat major – Serge Prokofiev
Duration 57 minutes
147. Piano Sonata No. 21 in C major «Waldstein» – Ludwig Van Beethoven
Duration 25 minutes 28 seconds
148. Cavalleria Rusticana – Pietro Mascagni
Duration 1 hour 15 minutes
149. Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor – Sergei Rachmaninoff
Average duration 40 minutes
150. Piano Concerto No. 3 in C major – Sergei Prokofiev
Duration 57 minutes
151. Piano Quintet in E flat major – Robert Schumann
Duration 31 minutes 23 seconds
152. Enigma Variations – Edward Elgar
Duration 1 hour 13 minutes
153. Das Leid von der Erde – Gustav Mahler
Duration 1 hour 17 minutes
154. Fantasy in C major «Wanderer» – Franz Schubert
Duration 1 hour 7 minutes
155. Symphony No. 104 in D major «London» – Franz Joseph Haydn
Duration 1 hour 18 minutes
156. Piano Concerto No. 1 in E flat major – Franz Liszt
Duration 18 minutes 49 seconds
157. Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini – Sergei Rachmaninoff
Duration 1 hour 5 minutes
158. The Art of the Fugue – Johann Sebastian Bach
Duration 2 hours 15 minutes
159. Symphony No. 5 in E minor – Peter Ilitch Tchaikovsky
Duration 1 hour 18 minutes
160. Daphnis et Chloe – Maurice Ravel
Duration 1 hour 14 minutes
161. Trumpet Concerto in E flat major – Franz Joseph Haydn
Duration 57 minutes
162. Il Trovatore – Giuseppe Verdi
Duration 1 hour 11 minutes
163. Ballade No. 1 in G minor – Frederic Chopin
Duration 1 hour 20 minutes
164. Night on Bald Mountain – Modest Mussorgsky
Duration 1 hour
165. Carnaval – Robert Schumann
Duration 29 minutes 54 seconds
166. Piano Sonata No. 29 in B flat major «Hammerklavier» – Ludwig Van Beethoven
Duration 29 minutes 4 seconds
167. Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, Op. 25 – Johannes Brahms
Duration 39 minutes 8 seconds
168. Adagio for Strings – Samuel Barber
Duration 56 minutes
169. Violin Concerto in D minor – Jean Sibelius
Duration 1 hour 7 minutes
170. Turandot – Giacomo Puccini
Duration 1 hour 10 minutes
171. Belshazzar’s Feast – William Walton
Duration 1 hour 8 minutes
172. Symphony No. 9 in D minor – Anton Bruckner
Duration 1 hour 45 minutes
173. Faust – Charles Gounod
Duration 1 hour 6 minutes
174. Symphony of Psalms – Igor Stravinsky
Duration 1 hour 14 minutes
175. Lohengrin – Richard Wagner
Duration 3 hours 19 minutes
176. Symphony No. 5 in E-flat major – Jean Sibelius
Duration 47 minutes
177. Mathis der Maler – Paul Hindemith
Duration 2 hours 11 minutes
178. Piano Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor – Frederic Chopin
Duration 52 minutes
179. Sinfonietta – Leos Janácek
Duration 25 minutes
180. Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor – Max Bruch
Duration 1 hour 11 minutes
181. Peer Gynt Suites – Edvard Grieg
Duration 1 hour 6 minutes
182. Symphony No. 1 in D major – Serge Prokofiev
Duration 13 minutes 50 seconds
183. Symphony No. 8 in C minor – Anton Bruckner
Duration 1 hour 14 minutes
184. The Royal Fireworks Music – George Frideric Handel
Duration 20 minutes 34 seconds
185. Violin Concerto No. 2 in B minor – Béla Bartók
Duration 18 minutes 2 seconds
186. Rapsodie Espagnole – Maurice Ravel
Duration 15 minutes 39 seconds
187. Piano Trio No. 1 in B flat major – Franz Schubert
Duration 40 minutes 29 seconds
188. The Planets – Gustav Holst
Duration 1 hour 9 minutes
189. Quartet for Strings no 4, 2nd movement, Prestissimo– Béla Bartók
Duration 2 minutes 42 seconds
190. Romeo and Juliet – Serge Prokofiev
Duration 45 minutes
191. Canon – Johann Pachelbel
Duration 54 minutes
192. The Blue Danube – Johann Strauss II
Duration 1 hour 9 minutes
193. Four Coronation Anthems – George Frideric Handel
Duration 2 hours 27 minutes
194. String Quartet No. 8 in C minor, Op. 110 – Dmitri Shostakovitch
Duration 22 minutes 12 seconds
195. Verklärte Nacht – Arnold Schoenberg
Duration 30 minutes
196. Caprices (24) for Violin solo, Op. 1: no 5 in A minor – Niccolo Paganini
Duration 2 minutes 17 seconds
197. Pelléas et Mélisande – Claude Debussy
Duration 2 hours 42 minutes 3 seconds
198. Trois Gymnopédies – Erik Satie
Duration 1 hour 11 minutes
199. Symphony No. 2 in G major «London» – Ralph Vaughan Williams
Duration 44 minutes 47 seconds
200. Three Places in New England – Charles Ives
Duration 1 hour 6 minutes
201. Variations for Cello and Orchestra on a Rococo theme, Op. 33 – Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Duration 16 Minutes 17 Secs.
202. Piano Sonatas #s 42, 48, 49, 50, 51 and 52 – Joseph Haydn
Duration 80 minutes
203. Turandot – Giacomo Puccini
Duration 2 hours 45 minutes
204. Symphony No. 35 in D major «Haffner» – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Duration 25 minutes 43 seconds
205. Symphony No. 36 in C major «Linz» – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Duration 31 minutes 19 seconds
206. Sonata for Violin solo no 1 in G minor – Johann Sebastian Bach
Duration 13 minutes 45 seconds
207. Partita for Violin solo no 1 in B minor – Johann Sebastian Bach
Duration 19 minutes 37 seconds
208. Partita for Violin solo no 3 in E major – Johann Sebastian Bach
Duration 13 minutes 37 seconds
209. Sonata for Violin solo no 2 in A minor – Johann Sebastian Bach
Duration 18 minutes 44 seconds
210. Sonata for Violin solo no 3 in C major – Johann Sebastian Bach
Duration 30 minutes 21 seconds