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Baroque Suite is a short visual-music composition that invites the audience to "listen to image" and to "see sound" in five synesthetic movements. The formal structure is guided by the traditional Baroque Suite: a set of musical movements as exemplified by Western European composers from the early 18th century. This Baroque influence also extends to the film's content; references to idiomatic musical gestures and painting techniques as well as common Baroque subjects/aesthetics are all present.
The composition is built upon the guiding principle that creative collaboration in visual-music must have no boundaries of input between composer and filmmaker. Thus the process was to conceive and realize images and sounds simultaneously, in a serious attempt to create continuum between media while not sacrificing the most expressive conventions relative to each.
Written and Directed by:
Troy Herion and Alex Tyson
Composer:
Troy Herion
Director of Photography:
Alex Tyson
Lighting Designer:
Zac Rubino
Choreographer:
Meg Foley
Dance Producer and Consultant:
J. Makary
Dancers:
Gregory Holt
Lydia Adler Okrent
Joanna Quigley
Gabrielle Revlock
Sharif Abdulmalik
Photographer & Photochemist:
Kateri Likoudis
Editor + Graphics:
Alex Tyson
Musicians:
Keyboards, Guitars - Troy Herion
Drum Kit - N. Cameron Britt
Clarinets - Jonathan Russell
Strings - Rameau String Quartet
Audio Engineer & Synthesizer Programmer:
Alex Tyson
Production Facilities:
Woodshop Films
Lightroom Photo Co-op
Princeton University Music Department
Special Thanks:
Elan Bogarin
Sarah Abanor
Cenk Ergün
Sean Mattio
Beth Beverly
Andrew & Amanda Tyson
Matthew Sanchez
Josh Fox
International Wow Co.
Music Department at Princeton University
