{"id":11906,"date":"2026-04-07T10:03:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T09:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=11906"},"modified":"2026-04-05T18:05:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T17:05:14","slug":"new-release-diogo-alvims-musica-para-mysterious-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=11906","title":{"rendered":"New release: Diogo Alvim\u2019s \u201dM\u00fasica para Mysterious Heart\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"Cover<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Mysterious Heart is a dance piece by choreographer T\u00e2nia Carvalho, created for Tanzmainz at the Staatstheater Mainz in 2023\u201324.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The music composed for this project was conceived from the outset with a certain autonomy from the choreography. The initial idea, taken from a practice already familiar in T\u00e2nia\u2019s choreographic work, involved exploring and characterising different emotions or states of mind \u2014 a kind of sonic catalogue of affects that would later support the choreographic composition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With this in mind, I proposed working with the drawings of Charles Le Brun, published in his treatise M\u00e9thode pour apprendre \u00e0 dessiner les passions (1698). These drawings, which examine the particularities of facial expressions associated with different human emotions, stem from Descartes\u2019s Les Passions de l\u2019\u00c2me (1649) and became a kind of visual grammar for many later creations. At the same time, in much of her work \u2014 both in drawing and in choreography \u2014 T\u00e2nia has developed her own vocabulary of facial expressions, which created an immediate affinity with Le Brun\u2019s universe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first step was to select a group of emotions and their corresponding drawings, and to record vocal improvisations by T\u00e2nia exploring each affect. The only exception was \u201cEnvy\u201d, which does not appear in Le Brun\u2019s catalogue; for this we used the figure de la jalousie naist l\u2019aversion<\/em>. With no stimulus other than the \u201cpassion\u201d and its drawing, the recordings were made without any instrumental accompaniment or sonic support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These recordings became the initial material for the electroacoustic composition. The vocal material was selected, then edited or transformed, and integrated into a new structure that explored different sonic atmospheres and characters for each emotional state. Each short piece was later explored, adjusted and adapted during the choreographic creation process, testing its relationship with the dancers\u2019 movements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two pieces that were not used in the final performance (\u201cEnvy\u201d and \u201cFear\u201d) are presented here for the first time as independent tracks (11 and 12). Some of their sonic material was nonetheless included in \u201cPictures\u201d (track 3), which runs through the entire \u201ccatalogue\u201d of emotions in a sequence that also includes material not used elsewhere. In addition, a longer version of the piece \u201cSadness\u201d is included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHope\u201d is based on John Blow\u2019s \u201cMorlake Ground\u201d (1689), as well as excerpts from \u201cTriumph, Victorious Love\u201d from Henry Purcell\u2019s opera Dioclesian (1690).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alongside this small catalogue of \u201cpassions\u201d, other pieces were developed according to different criteria, responding to a structure that emerged from the choreographic process. \u201cAll the thoughts in the world at the same time\u201d (tracks 2 and 8) stands apart from the rest, both choreographically and sonically. From the beginning, these pieces were shaped as dense layers of different sonic textures in constant transformation. The title, given by T\u00e2nia, became an early guide for the sonic composition. Finally, \u201cOverture\u201d, \u201cInterlude\u201d and \u201cFinale\u201d (tracks 1, 5 and 10) also diverge from the sonic vocabulary of the other pieces, helping articulate the overall form.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All pieces in this album were revisited at the mixing stage and newly mastered for this edition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

M\u00fasica para Mysterious Heart is now available as a limited-release CD or download<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mysterious Heart is a dance piece by choreographer T\u00e2nia Carvalho, created for Tanzmainz at the Staatstheater Mainz in 2023\u201324. The music composed for this project was conceived from the outset with a certain autonomy from the choreography. The initial idea, taken from a practice already familiar in T\u00e2nia\u2019s choreographic work, involved exploring and characterising different emotions … <\/p>\n

Continue reading “New release: Diogo Alvim\u2019s \u201dM\u00fasica para Mysterious Heart\u201d”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11908,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11906\/revisions\/11908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}