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| For Utopia no.1 |
Contact :doroneparis@gmail.com
Create: I'm an Israeli-born contemporary composer and a professional saxophone player living & working in Ireland. Being raised and educated in Israel, influenced my political ideas and affected my musical creativeness, aesthetics and philosophy. I am the founder of PATH art: an organisation dedicated to convincing my people that a peaceful coexistence between Jews and Arabs in Israel-Palestine is both possible and necessary. Living in Ireland and being directly involved in the abortion legalisation debate, PATH's mission has expanded as an artistic human rights movement.
Other creative stuff: as I mentioned before, my creative work in Ireland deals (for now) with the abortion rights needed in the country. Therefore, under the wing of PATH a new project called For Utopia has emerged. The project, which is this time in based in Ireland, aims to separate religion from state laws.
The first performance of this project, 'For Utopia no. 1', took place on Friday 7th of June, on Grafton street in Dublin city.
This piece raises the subject of women’s rights specifically in relation to the ongoing abortion debate. We preach for the protection of the lives of Irish women over archaic religious legacy.
The piece is composed for a female singer Justine Murphy, guitar & pedals Edgar Grunewald and tenor saxophone (myself) .
The singer wears a veil throughout the piece as a symbol of mourning for the basic human rights that were taken away from her. She opens the piece by walking down Grafton Street while singing dramatically texts from various feminist groups supporting abortion.
As she continues walking down the street, the liturgical melody of Kyrie from the Catholic requiem mass is being played, for the remembrance of the women whose basic human rights were taken away from them. I hope that by this combination of text and melody, people will acknowledge the sad fact that the singer is actually begging for the rights of her own life.
When the singer finally meets the guitar and saxophone she loses her voice almost completely, which is a metaphor for blocking and ignoring women's rights.
As the piece progresses the guitar and sax lose their conventional sound and become a raging chaos which joins together to the singers cry.
Here is a link to the performance on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXUi_OCw5v0
Feminism... is the most important movement there is. Genesis begins by separating the man from the woman and discriminating her.This is the most ancient discrimination in the world and sadly the most persistent one. Therefore, feminism is not only important but it is a crucial movement for human rights around the world.
Links: www.DoroneParis.com
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