Mountain War Project: Dream structures for video design with concrete and instrumental surround sound.

 

For many years the phenomena of nature or 'wilderness' has determined and influenced the compositional work of the Cuban-American-Austrian composer Jorge E. López. For 15 years he lived in the Hohe Tauern mountains in Southern Austria and the near wilderness of the US-American mountains. The main themes he addresses are the awe-inspiring aspects of nature and the driving force behind human activity. López continuously employs dream sequences and nightmarish imagery. This recent work, for video projection and pre-recorded orchestra using 8-channel spatialisation, is no exception; here, López examines the Alpine front during the First World War, in and around the Dolomites. The central repertoire of sounds and images for this multi-media work comes from natural and orchestral sounds, mountain imagery and historical film material.