Archimedes: Scene II

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This second scene begins with Archimedes, now a young man, emerging from the laughter of scene i; he begins to realize that he undertands mathematics, more than undertands it, he can master it, create it, think it, live and breathe it. The music is composed for a wide variety of geometrical images being drawn and animated on the planetarium dome, in synchronization with a live mime who with his gestures, causes the images to appear, to move, to transform and to engulf. The music is designed to capture the gestures and the various moods of Archimedes as he quickly proceeds … continued below

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3 sound recordings (7 min., 31 sec.)

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Dashow, James, 1944- 1988.

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  • Main Title: Archimedes: Scene II
  • Series Title: MISAME

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This second scene begins with Archimedes, now a young man, emerging from the laughter of scene i; he begins to realize that he undertands mathematics, more than undertands it, he can master it, create it, think it, live and breathe it. The music is composed for a wide variety of geometrical images being drawn and animated on the planetarium dome, in synchronization with a live mime who with his gestures, causes the images to appear, to move, to transform and to engulf. The music is designed to capture the gestures and the various moods of Archimedes as he quickly proceeds from his initial discoveries, through exhilirating errors and fantastic false starts, to his first genuinely important geometrical discoveries. The scene concludes with a final image of a sphere inscribed in a cylinder floating out over the audience; Archimedes felt this relationship - the ratio of the sphere's volume to that of the enclosing cylinder is 2:3 - to be his most significant mathematical discovery.

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3 sound recordings (7 min., 31 sec.)

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Mnemothèque Internationale des Arts Electroacoustiques

Sound recordings of electroacoustic music from the archive of the International de musique électroacoustique de Bourges (IMEB). The works were created in the IMEB studios or submitted by participants of the Festival Synthèse or the Bourges Electroacoustic Music Competition. Access is restricted to the UNT community.

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  • 1988

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  • Nov. 17, 2019, 9:26 a.m.

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  • Aug. 24, 2020, 5:20 p.m.

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Dashow, James, 1944-. Archimedes: Scene II, audio recording, 1988; Bourges, France. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1585917/: accessed June 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Music Library.

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