Hypermusic Prologue is the fruit of a unique partnership between science, music and the plastic arts. In the company of Lisa Randall, the artist Matthew Ritchie and the stage director Paul Desveaux, we explore the “historical” form of opera to create a new type of dramatic expression suited to the 21st century.

The libretto is by the Harvard physicist Lisa Randall who has written a best-selling book on her fascinating and complex extra-dimensional theory of the universe. She has re-imagined it as an appropriately cerebral art form. The work was premiered in the Pompidou Centre in Paris.

CD 2 is an explanatory interview in English with both the composer and the librettist.

Contents:
CD 1
Hypermusic Prologue, a projektive opera in seven planes
(01) Plane I “Why this confusion?”
(02) Plane II “A wonderful place!”
(03) Plane III “This step –a new dimension”
(04) Plane IV “The pathway opens“
(05) Plane IV “Why disrupt this harmony?!“ (Bubble 1)
(06) Plane IV “You are gone“
(07) Plane IV “The soft cozy edge” (Bubble 4)
(08) Plane IV “I will describe this strange landscape”
(09) Plane IV The language of the 5th dimension
(10) Plane IV Microscopico, flamboyant
(11) Plane V “This pull, this tug“
(12) Plane V Electronic interlude
(13) Plane V Scuro / “As I travel away“
(14) Plane VI “How to open up your world?”
(15) Plane VII “Discordant phenomena”

TT: 63:32

CD 2
Explanatory interview (in English) with composer Hèctor Parra and physicist Lisa Randall, including illustrative sound excerpts from Hypermusic Prologue
- Lisa Randall on major questions concerning physical theories of the 20th century. Possible developments and paths to follow
- The models “Randall-Sundrum 1 and 2” presented by Lisa Randall: five dimensional theories of space-time. An attempt to solve the “hierarchy problem”
- Lisa Randall on Stephen Hawking
- Music and Physics – the first contacts between Lisa Randall and Hèctor Parra: initial steps towards Hypermusic Prologue
- Working together
- Developing new sounding material
- Hèctor Parra talks about how this 5th dimension would sound: live electronics and their progressive evolution over the course of Hypermusic Prologue
- Impacts, influences and intentions
- Working with the artist Matthew Ritchie
- Future projects in the fields of physics and music

TT: 56:22