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Joey BargstenBEEST OPERA(tm) - Video Jams (2008)

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BEEST OPERA™ (mmix) is a new digital media opera by composer and media artist Joey Bargsten.

Like his previous opera Anatomy of Melancholy™ (mmv), this one is an open-source, scaleable, Do-It-Yourself opera where the live vocalists are singing the parts they hear over their iPods, as they did in Anatomy, resulting in Bargsten’s signature sound: a sort of multi-temporal blend of minimalism and modernism, live unadorned vocals mixed with electronic ambience and occasional interruptions by intricate rhythmic processes.

Also like Anatomy, BEEST OPERA™ incorporates live video manipulation with a theatrical musical experience. Unlike its predecessor, the electronic score of BEEST OPERA™ is an asynchronous and collaborative mashup of a musical vocabulary distributed online, mixed live and transmitted from a number of artists around the globe.

The composer’s interest in digitally constructed, networked experiences resulting in some form of musical theatre is further explored and given a concise and elegant shape in this new work.

Find out more about BEEST OPERA™ here. More music from the composer can be found on archive.org here; digital media projects are all linked here , and DVDs of digital cinema projects and further documentation are available here.


This movie is part of the collection: Open Source Movies

Director: Joey Bargsten
Producer: Joey Bargsten
Production Company: Bad Mind Time(tm) Films, Inc.
Audio/Visual: sound, color
Keywords: beest opera; joey bargsten; bargsten; www.badmindtime.com; experimental; opera; digital; video jam; scratch cinema; interactive; digital opera
Contact Information: Joey Bargsten at jbargste@fau.edu

Creative Commons license: Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States

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