THE BIRTH OF COLOR
“God made everything out of nothing,
but the nothingness shows through.”
– Paul Valery
The Birth of Color: A Marriage of Darkness and Light is a Frequency Opera based on ancient and new scientific ideas about the Creation of the universe.
AN OFFICIAL SELECTION OF THE BUDAPEST ARTS FESTIVAL
IMMERSION
ART IS SCIENCE MADE CLEAR
The Birth of Color: A Marriage of Darkness and Light is a Frequency Opera, a multi-media oratorio of the Creation using frequency as both the content and the form.
The music has been written with correspondences to the frequencies of color.
Physics is discovering that everything is a form of organized vibration. String theory posits that both matter and energy are composed of vibrating strings. That the world is made of vibration was already known to the authors of the Vedas more than 10,000 years ago.
In the opera, ancient wisdom encoded in myth and based in the human body is joined to the beauty of scientific understanding.
FIRST NIGHT
LOVE STORY
The story, told as a fable, is a love story of the sudden emergence of the homogenous universe splitting into time and space, light and dark. As they separate, they long for each other. When eventually they reunite, the intensity of their crashing together creates the harmonics, the colors, the strata of creation.
FIRST IMPRESSIONS
IN IT
The extraordinary music by Italian composer Lucio Ivaldi, is sung by an unaccompanied chorus who surround the audience in an outer circle and sing into them as the light and video project around, above and below reflecting off of a central pool of water, creating an immersion in the vibratory field.
The sound is also shaped through a sound placement technology that can sculpt the space with the music itself, putting the audience into different relationships and experiences of scale. Woven throughout is the poetry of Pulitzer Prize nominee David Brendan Hopes.