Carolina Maria de Jesus em Fragmento e Fábula: um experimento de composição de retrato sonoro

Abstract

The proposal of this master's research arises from the need to integrate a critical reading of my social context into my compositional practice, stemming from my background and work in music. In contrast to methods and theories of composition that neglect the connections between musical creation and the various realms of meaning that surround it, I have proposed actively involving in my composing those whom I have referred to as my peers women who have become references for reshaping the modes of my composing. Thus, my main objective has been to construct chains of sonic meaning that engage with the discourses of women whose socio-cultural trajectories resonate with mine. Within the scope of artistic research, the central method for realizing these processes, experimentally proposed within composition studies, is the creation of sound portraits. These serve as pathways for constructing a representation within the sonic domain. Having chosen Carolina Maria de Jesus as the central figure, I describe here the process of creating a sound portrait of the writer. Among the outcomes are the construction of four musical pieces, two of which were part of an initial attempt to explore possibilities for the application of the method, and the other two forming the work "Carolina Maria de Jesus in Fragment and Fable," which lends its title to this study and is divided into an acousmatic and an instrumental version. Reflections on the creation of these works culminate in the maturation of processes and in the development of concepts and ideas surrounding the nature of the portrait. Here, I also reflect on the already crystallized general representations that have been made about Carolina and touch upon the implications of creating a musical perspective around the writer in my own work.