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An Investigation of Technological Impressions in Steve Reich and Beryl Korot's Three Tales

MacRobbie, Danielle Elizabeth
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1382368248

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2013, Master of Music (MM), Bowling Green State University, Music History.
The impact of technology upon the twentieth century and the influence it continues to exert upon the present human community is self-evident. The allure and power of technology are broadcast via the grandest media and performance entertainment, while on the opposite spectrum, technology is being continually refined to render its electro-mechanical or bio-technical feats for humans. It is this theme of the increasing growth and import of technology upon every facet of human life that serves as the subject of Three Tales, a twenty-first century documentary digital video opera by composer Steve Reich and video artist Beryl Korot. In this work, Reich and Korot confront society's negligence of particular directions that technological development and application have undergone in the past century, and advise against taking the same paths in the coming era. Even as modern technology is critiqued in Three Tales, the work itself bends to accept the reality of technology's significance upon modern thought and life. In keeping with Reich and Korot's categorization of the work as a "documentary digital video opera," Three Tales is a performance work heavily dependent upon technology for its generation, presentation, and discussion of the interchange between technology and humankind. This thesis will investigate how technology has shaped the course of an artwork whose purpose is to expose and debate the handling of technology in current society. Technology in Three Tales is examined from various perspectives. Chapter one presents the foundational role of technology as "tool," "subject," and "theme." Chapter two considers how visual and audio technologies are used in Three Tales to suggest the effects technology may have upon perceptions of human connectedness and isolation. Chapter three investigates the inherent paradox in Three Tales that occurs from using technological devices for the work's production while its theme critiques modern, technological advances. The chapter also considers the influence technology has upon the formation of Three Tales's generic identification.
Eftychia Papanikolaou (Advisor)
Alexa Woloshyn (Committee Member)
Mary Natvig (Committee Member)
143 p.
Biology; Ethics; History; Information Technology; Medical Ethics; Military History; Minority and Ethnic Groups; Music; Nanotechnology; Robotics; Robots; Spirituality; Technology; Theology
Steve Reich; Beryl Korot; Three Tales; Technology; Hindenburg zeppelin; Bikini Atoll; Cloning; electronic music; IRCAM; freeze frame sound; new music theater; Kismet; human connectedness; human isolation; technology and art; art and politics; paradox

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  • MacRobbie, D. E. (2013). An Investigation of Technological Impressions in Steve Reich and Beryl Korot's Three Tales [Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1382368248

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • MacRobbie, Danielle. An Investigation of Technological Impressions in Steve Reich and Beryl Korot's Three Tales. 2013. Bowling Green State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1382368248.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • MacRobbie, Danielle. "An Investigation of Technological Impressions in Steve Reich and Beryl Korot's Three Tales." Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1382368248

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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