Open AccessTeledescante nº1: polyphony in time of plague
Author(s) -
Maurício De Bonis,
Fábio Scucuglia
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
revista vórtex
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2317-9937
DOI - 10.33871/23179937.2021.9.2.5
Subject(s) - problematization , plague (disease) , polyphony , pandemic , neoliberalism (international relations) , aesthetics , sociology , history , art , covid-19 , literature , political economy , disease , medicine , ancient history , pathology , infectious disease (medical specialty)
This report contemplates an instrumental composition as a project for audiovisual production in social isolation, during the Covid-19 pandemic. Based on the problematization of the impact of the pandemic in music making, solutions were sought that were not only viable as an artistic result but that could also be projected in a purposeful and prospective way in times of humanitarian crisis, of dismal symmetry between capitalist neoliberalism and programmed neglect in public health policies. After a description of the research on the use of art in past pandemics as a guiding principle in the choice of materials, the audiovisual production is detailed. The piece was written in April 2020 as a result of the analysis of a Renaissance motet, which, in turn, was conceived as a tribute to a composer who had perished from the plague and as a palliative against the disease.