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Wojtek Blecharz "Body-Opera", trailer, Pittsburgh 2024

Wojtek Blecharz: directing, concept, music Ewa-Maria Śmigielska: stage set, video, costumes, Bonnie Lander, Barbara Kinga Majewska, Jennifer Torrence: pre-recorded voices This video was made at the “Body-Doubles Symposium”, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, February 2024 Curated and produced by Annie Hui Hsin Hsieh Video Cred. Recording Services at Carnegie Mellon University School of Music. Body-Opera is dedicated to the audience; it explores the relationships between the human body and the sound and reflects on the physical nature of the main element of music. Body-Opera is composed for 100 vibrating transducer speakers which are hidden in 100 pillows, located on 100 yoga mats arranged in a performance venue accordingly to its shape and size. Transducer speakers not only project sound, but also vibrate with specific frequencies, what allows experiencing sounds in a very immersive way. The participant can watch, nap, sit, lay down, listen to the music, and literarily be “massaged” with the sound through the transducer speakers. On each mat there is also a black box with a set of props prepared for the viewers, inviting for active participation, involving other senses like taste or smell as well. Body-Opera includes a live performance: a solo performed on a subcontrabass Paetzold recorder (Susanne Fröhlich). Body-Opera addresses the issues of senses in relation to the physicality of sound, but also refers to how cultural institutions are limiting listener’s perception by cultivating the same models of experiencing music based on sitting, listening and watching. Perception is embodied; we do not experience music as an abstract intellectual process through our brains, ears and eyes only. Sound is a frequency, a vibration, and a very dynamic material, which can “touch” our senses or emotions as well as the bodies.