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Abstract
For my culminating experience project, I developed a multidisciplinary work that combines a film featuring original music with astrophysical scientific data. The film enhances the music experience by integrating scientific research on black holes, footage of the Atacama Desert, Chilean folkloric music elements, and different techniques and orchestration in the compositions. The music follows the form of an orchestral suite with six movements. “Agujeros negros”, (Black Holes), “Altiplano”, “Salar de Tara”, “Stellar Sky”, “The Infinity”, and Black Holes, a graphic score. Each movement is created to portray my roots in relationship with the topic of Black Holes, "ferocious monsters of space and time", through the Folkloric rhythms from Chile, Improvisation, Global Jazz concepts, Symphonic sounds, and Zero Gravity, a concept that explores the singularity, infinite, and multidimensional experience of performing music without an agenda.
My music research was dedicated to finding storytelling in the music, starting from the unknown, in the dark corners of the galaxy, coming to the Atacama desert in relationship with discoveries and resources from the Indigenous people including the Música Andina/Andean Music, which is a group of folkloric styles of music from the Andes region in South America.
Publication Date
7-1-2024
Campus
Boston Campus
Recommended Citation
Urra, Brian. “From Atacama to the Dark Corners of the Galaxy, An Immersive view of Black Holes from The Desert of Atacama, Chile.” Master's thesis, Berklee College of Music, 2024. https://remix.berklee.edu/graduate-studies-global-jazz/175.