Image cinématographique et composition musicale: la technique compositionnelle vers une convergence créatrice

This PhD project by Jeremias Iturras aims to find a “creative technical convergence” between music and cinema. To elucidate this convergence, Iturras will first analyse certain film techniques (design, construction, structure, aesthetic ideas, etc.) based on specific examples from directors and films to see if it is possible and plausible to apply the “same” technical methods to a musical composition. He will look for the creation of “technical musical concepts” that will have as their origin a cinematographic idea. The initial research has revealed some technical models (specifically in relation to space and timbre) that were used in some of Iturras’ pieces. On a theoretical level, this process will be articulated by analysing two conceptual pillars: metaphor and analogy in music.
The second part of this project will enquire if these technical musical concepts originating from a cinematographic idea, can in turn be applied, at the technical level, to the construction of the image (video, cinema). For that, collaboration with other artists (video and filmmakers) will be essential, resulting in an audiovisual work. Therefore, at the formal level, this project aims in its trajectory to carry out a sort of spiral during which the first idea will undergo a metamorphosis to be “reinjected” at the starting point.