Chiaroscuro Pentimenti

[img_assist|nid=145|align=right|width=100|height=71] Chiaroscuro Pentimenti is a collaboration between poet Jennifer Williams, composer Martin Parker and visual artist Anna Chapman applying the visual art concepts of chiaroscuro and pentimenti to computer-mediated performance of new music and poetry. Chiaroscuro is a method of synthesising light through casting shadow while pentimenti is about layering, where imagery is revealed beneath imagery. These terms are alive with sonic potential and we are exploring Jennifer's poetry and its re-telling through real-time sound processing methods devised from our research and generated by the voice of the poet in live performance. "Chiaroscuro: The technique of using light and shade in pictorial representation". (http://www.dictionary.com) "A word borrowed from Italian referring to the modelling of volume by depicting light and shade by contrasting them boldly." (http://www.artlex.com) "Pentimenti: An underlying image in a painting, as an earlier painting, part of a painting, or original draft, that shows through, usually when the top layer of paint has become transparent with age." (http://www.dictionary.com) "These images which were supposed to be hidden often appear like ghosts -- not entirely solid. Many result from a painter's decision that a nearly finished picture needs to be altered, but the new passage is made with too thin a layer of paint. Pentimento is Italian for 'repentance.' (http://www.artlex.com) [img_assist|nid=146|title=Prntimento_hand|desc=|link=popup|align=right|width=100|height=75] Project development website - http://sd.caad.ed.ac.uk/cp