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Gone with the Wind
is a music composition and a short movie entirely made during
the confinement period of 2020 due to the Covid-19 Chinese plague.
Music and film were elaborated independently.
The musical composition is established in four voices. There
is no prevailing voice. The number four here indicates the dynamics
of life, as the tradition of sacred geometry teaches. The first
voice is a continuum for twenty transverse flutes. The key note
is F1. But, an A bass is introduced. This is because both are
impossible as musical notes. The subtle pitch fluctuation produced
by the natural flexibility of the lips is used to generate a
larger number of harmonics.
The second voice is a cluster of complex, higher frequencies,
operated electronically. Also forming a continuum. The third
voice is established by a long 2/4 rhythmic cell typically used
in dances, such as in discos or night clubs. However, this cell
is subtly broken, producing a slight aperidiocity.
The fourth voice is the fusion of the sounds of the movie
So, basically, the twenty flutes and the three voices result
in twenty-three, the sum of which is five, the pentagon. Five
it is the sum of two, the concrete existence, and three, the
reason.
In turn, to make the movie a deep research on twenty cinematographic
works was necessary. Same number as the first musical voice,
with transversal flutes.
From these twenty films, a selection of scenes of love, parties,
music, faces, collective events, bars and restaurants was made.
Seven points of reference.
A first edition was carried out with five independent tracks.
The Gestalt principle known as "emergence" was adopted.
According to this principle, our brains can create images from
apparent disconnected points and spots.
Kurt Koffka said: "...our reality is not a mere collocation
of elemental facts, but consists of units in which no part exists
by itself, where each part points beyond itself and implies a
larger whole".
The already classic image of the Dalmatian dog illustrates well
how it occurs.
Thus, each one of the five tracks, or visual layers, was electronically
treated in order to turn everything white with black spots. The
person sees images that are formed in his or her brain, but in
addition to the more evident ones, other images are produced,
depending on each one's brain. Therefore, each person sees a
different whole.
These five layers were superimposed, one being the negative of
the other, amplifying the process of "emergence" and
the formation of parallel images, belonging to the imagination
of each one.
Gone with the Wind
is a movie, or a cartoon, as you prefer, about the historical
moment we live in.
All images in the film are about elements that have characterized
our societies over the past hundred years. In one way or another,
they portray people's lives and their "environment"...
at least until now.
What will change? What is our role as people, individuals, in
the face of the reality that emerges? The old reality suddenly
disappeared, like in war.
It is a concert-movie about each one of us, about our memories,
our ideas. A reflection-movie.
We are all responsible for the future, for freedom.
Seven points of reference.
The ancient mysticism attributed magical powers to the number
seven, considering it a direct reference to the seven human principles:
the Self, the soul, the mind, love, the vital principle, the
spirit and the physical body.
In the kabbalah, seven of the ten sephirot on the Tree of Life
designate our universe of emotions.
In the biblical Revelation, seven are the seals that protect
the book that John describes from his apocalyptic vision. The
opening of these seals marks the beginning of the Apocalypse.
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