Fusing music, art and technology, this concert brings you into the world of dreaming with Mixed Reality (MR). With innovative, cutting-edge digital technology we are exploring the fantasy world of creative minds: composers’ narrative in music, synaesthesia art and multisensory perception to create a dream-like world in the style of surrealism and through the visualisation of senses by technology. Internationally renowned pianist, composer and researcher Dr Svetlana Rudenko (www.svetlana-rudenko.com) composed music on the art of Salvador Dali who illustrated Lewis Carroll’s iconic story of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, as well as the art of Giorgio De Chirico and others. Performance on Meta Quest 3 is by Xiangpeng Fu, with special guest on saxophone David Salleras (www.davidsalleras.com), who is an honoured Selmer Artist and Vandoren Artist. MR visuals will be projected to the screen to provide an immersive multisensory experience. Talk and narration by CEO & Creative Director of Haunted Planet Studios, Prof. Mads Haahr, School of Computer Science and Statistics, Trinity College Dublin. Video of MR visuals here

Performers / soloists:
Prof. Mads Haahr
Dr Svetlana Rudenko
David Salleras
Xiangpeng Fu

Program:
Amy Beach, Dreaming, op. 15 no.3 “You Speak to Me from the Depth of a Dream.”/V. Hugo
S. Rachmaninoff, Six Preludes op. 32 nos.1- 5 & 10
S. Rudenko, De Chirico: Metaphysical Art MR

- Intermission -

S. Rudenko, Alice Dali MR: ‘Pool of Tears’, ‘Who Stole the Tarts?’ and ‘Alice’s Evidence’
Piano and Saxophone:
D. Salleras La Lune Rouge
Tangos by Astor Piazzolla: Vuelvo Al Sur, Milonga Del Angel, Fracanapa with visuals from Asger Jorn: The Disquieting Duckling MR

About the performers
In Irish Times review, Tuesday, October 27, 2009, Andrew Johnston wrote about Svetlana Rudenko at JFR, National Concert Hall: ‘....a power-packed account of Liszt’s supreme Sonata in B minor that revealed no inhibiting concerns for the practicable or even the physically possible.’ In Golden Plec, October 21, 2013, by John Millar: ‘With Rudenko drawing a big sound from her piano, the drama of the work fills the space left by the effects of the last Scriabin work… Engaging, exciting and sensitive towards the music being performed, Rudenko puts a bit of sunshine back into a wet Friday afternoon.’

‘La Lune Rouge’ and other compositions of David Salleras ‘travel between tango and flamenco music, they are passionate and brilliant works. His ‘Mí Bailaora’, a saxophone concert with short films directed and filmed by Quim Paredes, with poems written by David Salleras himself, Eduard Paredes as the main actor, explore the inner world of the musician-creator.’