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D'Arcy, Geraint 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5645-6005
(2012)
The Yellow Sound an unstageable composition: Technology, modernism and spaces that should-not-be.
Body, Space, Technology, 12 (1).
ISSN 1470-9120
Abstract
This paper shows how the 'magic-box' aesthetics of nineteenth century stage technology were utilized by modern scenographic and technological approaches to realise Wassily Kandinsky's rarely performed abstract stage composition The Yellow Sound at Tate Modern in 2011. Performed in a glass room overlooking London, technology and scenographic approaches to space were successful in producing a complete version: with yellow giants, miniature people, flying heads, et al. This paper explores what the magic-box aesthetic was and how it was created by manipulating space through mechanical technologies in a proscenium-framed space. It explains how modern projection technologies and innovative scenographic approaches to performance in this case study can recreate its affect in a space that is very unlike a proscenium arch theatre but can still be magic.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | kandinsky,performance aesthetics,performance theory,theatre technology,philosophy of technology |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Art, Media and American Studies (former - to 2024) |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 29 Apr 2020 00:04 |
| Last Modified: | 25 Sep 2024 14:38 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/74879 |
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