RAMA-RASA PROJECT
RAMA-RASA PROJECT (ita-eng)
Description
"RAMA-RASA" is a multimedia project of electroacoustic music, which refers to the
principles of the neuroscientist V.S. Ramachandran. He deepened , in various essays, the
relationship between neuro-perceptual mechanisms and artistic creation, summarizing it
in nine aesthetic laws.
Our brain loves shortcuts and symmetrical elements that facilitate the aesthetic
enjoyment and an easy understanding of sounds, images and texts.
In the case of the Song "Certi Momenti”, for example, both the score and the text have
been structured according to a Symmetrical scheme.
The performance of the song "Certi Momenti", made at the Music Center of Trent referred
to a scale of notes defined by the french composer Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992); this scale,
played on the keyboard of the guitar, presents a series of symmetries related to the
positions on the keys. This structure gives suggestive sounds to the melodies and to the
harmonies.
The text, composed of six short stanzas, (divided into four verses of which the first is long
and the three other shorts), suggests six metaphorical flashes; they would like to express
the emotional ambiguities of the passage of time.
The “Rama-Rasa” tracks can be performed live on the guitar and through the use of
software that recalled pre-recorded clips. related, depending on the case, to the text, the
Percussions, the Synthesizers or the Bass.)
In addition, a particular sensor allowed the musician to modulate the timbre during sound
events by receiving in real time the impulse of the performer’s body movements of
approach and retreat
THE RAMACHANDRAN’S NINE AESTHETIC LAWS AND THE DITITIX’’S NINE TRACKS (preview) OF ELECTRONIC MUSIC
(total time performance: about 60 minutes)
1 - GROUPING
A neuronal synchrony occurs in the brain that triggers when a group of similar elements is recognized.
Tiitle track.: NOME: NESSUNO(Name: Nobody)
2 – PEAK SHIFT – HYPERBOLE
The essence of a subject (in Sanskrit “Rasa”) is emphasised.
Title track: NE AMO TRE DI TE ( I love three of you)
3 –CONTRAST
Rela:vely sudden change in brightness, in sound, in :mbre or other feature, between two
homogeneous regions.
Title track: MAGIA (Magic)
4 – ISOLATION
The musician emphasises a single source of information - such as form, sound, color, - and
deliberately plays down or deletes other sources.
Title track IL PROBLEMA DEL MALE ( The problem of Evil)
5 – PROBLEM SOLVING”
The brain loves to solve puzzles, ambigui:es and likes to modulate hypotheses in the face of partial percep:ons.
Title track: NUMEN NOMEN
6 – ABHORRENCE OF COINCIDENCES
We always try to explain coincidences that are considered suspicious by our brain.
Title track: DENTRO L’OSSO DELLA NATURA (Inside the bone of Nature)
7 – ORDERLINESS
Our brain loves regularity and the repeated use of sound and rhythms, but in a balance between too much order (boring) and total chaos (not pleasing).
Title track: STAI QUI, NON TE NE ANDARE (Stay here, don’t go away)
8 – SYMMETRY
Symmetry is a marker for good health, also in the artistic and musical fields symmetry gives
pleasure and satisfaction.
Title track: CERTI MOMENTI (SYMMETRIES)
9 – METAPHORS
The metaphorical language represents a way to break through the barrier that separates the
logical linguistic spirit of the left hemisphere from the dreamlike and intuitive spirit of the right hemisphere.
Title track: MELA MALE- EVIL EVER
RAMA-RASA PROJECT / FLOW CHART
