MixMedia

Since opera arose upon the art scene, music and theater have melted in different relations. As an instrument of aesthetic potence, as a guide for the dancer/executants/actors, as a decoration for the amusment of the audience, etc. In a sense only contemporary music concerts give music a free approach to the stage, in contrast to what classical music, or orquestral music manages with the stage, a very formal and traditional use. Concerts have broken the predominance of the thatrical stage approach, and if we locate the first concerts in the late 19th century, we can guess how many things must have happened to have the Beatles shouting, jumping and playing their instruments in a juvenile fashion. From the Jazz, Blues and Be-Bop that overwhelmed US bars and cafeterias in the first half on the 20th century to the full on masive Woodstock or Lollapalooza there is an enormous switch in the peoples will to gather for music live performance.

>The real task for performing arts is to reencouter how to relate to music. Not much has been done after specially inovative people such as Meredith Monk that ended up giving her full time to music, but coming from the mix of performance/theater and music. The invention of her extended vocal technics is the type of result that a real search brings forth. Romeo Castelluci is another example of electronically made music suitable for theater in an innovative manner; from very strong base to a deep, long and tenseful string cuartet. This attempts to merge medias are all intending to find good solutions for an audience completly absorbed by television, cinema, video games, internet, and other forms of the visual culture. The saturation of media streams obliges the artist to search for an entrance to the audience. How can we not deny but embrace and transcend the superficial world of visual media? Is there a way to access peoples minds in a crowded mind enviroment?

>The true performing artist must attempt, inserting him/herself in the mixmedia venue. There are few things accomplished and little time.