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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Gaston Bachelard's "Water and dreams"."”.
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Water and dreams : exploring Bachelard's concepts through new audiovisual works for the oboe
… research explores new approaches to composition and performance with interactive audiovisual systems which draw on the ideas of Gaston Bachelard. The composition Blue Space for oboe and interactive audiovisual system is a central component of this thesis. This practice-based research project …
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Portinari, poeta de imensidões
… a mark that unites his great range of technique and stylistic tendencies. With the methodologi- cal support of Gaston Bachelard's phenomenology, emphasizing material imagination linked to the four basic elements of water, earth, fire and air, the dissertation approaches the poetic imagination of …
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Machine Dreams
… years attending The University of Mississippi and relate to my experiences traveling around South America and various places in North America, where I observed how different cultures view power and how it serves them. In this body of work, I looked for meaning in the process of discovery, …
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Blood, Water and Mars: Soviet Science and the Alchemy for a New Man
The themes of blood, water and Mars in Soviet science and technology show the strong utopian and even religious foundations of Soviet society, which invariably centered around forging a new environment and, in so doing, a new variety of human to inhabit it. In the minds and experiments of some of …
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Ghostly Faces and Liminal Spaces: Landscape, Gender, and Identity in the Plays of Marina Carr
… the tensions inherent in the issues of landscape, gender, and identity. She uses these liminal spaces to expose her audiences to more complex conceptions of Ireland in the twenty-first century. For example, Carr frequently challenges perceived notions of gender identity, drawing attention …
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Song of the Morrígan for Chamber Orchestra, Cries of Revelation for Chorus, Soloists and Large Instrumental Ensemble, and Fragments of a Dream for 5.1 Surround Electronics
… The first work is titled Song of the Morrígan and is written for chamber orchestra with piano and two percussionists. The Morrígan is a figure from Irish mythology, a goddess of battle, strife, and fertility. While the Morrígan has conflicting roles and forms in Irish mythology, the most common …
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Beyond Bounds
… words. Stained pages, soiled underwear, spilled dreams. Life is not beautiful. It is the accumulation of scars, the imposition of cuts, the kniving of the womb, the stabbing of the soul, and the mind learning to lie and to live with the lies of its own making. Somewhere in this struggle, there …
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Melancholy and the Infinite Sadness: A Mental Therapy Retreat
… leading cause of suicide in the United States and the third leading cause of death between 18-25 year olds. The aim of the project was guided based on the idea that we could take sadness as a manifestation in order to allow the possibility of controlling and manipulating it. The idea was based …