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Abstract: Living at a time when the stress level is growing every year, or even day by day, the ecological situation is deteriorating, wars, pandemics, economic recession, racism, and nationalism. It is very important to find a way to connect with yourself and nature. Find a way to tap into spirituality. Find a way to improve our mental state so that later life will be in better ecological and mental conditions. If every person made himself happy, the world would be populated by happy people. With similar roots in spirituality, psychology, linguistics, and philosophy, this thesis mindset is about bringing people's mental health into balance while also understanding the structure and the research behind an audio-meditative installation "Breath of the Wind" based on the Bora wind. This work follows the interrelationship between body, mind, and spirit with a focus on breathing "Breath of the Wind" is a composition, meditative musical landscape, with spatialized sound samples driven by input from nature and digitally processed with MAX/MSP software
Keywords: Wind, atmosphere, air, spirituality, awareness, meditation, breathing, attention, music.
Published in RUNG: 20.12.2022; Views: 1195; Downloads: 50
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Abstract: Both texts were created during pivotal moments of Slovene history: Prešeren’s poem at a time of German political, economic, and cultural supremacy and newly emerging demands for a united Slovenia, and Bevk’s during the time of Italian fascism and the occupation of the Slovene Primorska region. At first glance, Prešeren’s poetry of high Romanticism and Bevk’s supposedly trivial work have nothing in common apart from the topic of paganism and Christianity. However, they both convey a hidden message that could not be stated outright due to the censorship policies of the authorities at the time, to condemnation of aggressive foreign rulers, to appeals to national unity, to heightened patriotic consciousness, and to a relationship with nature that establishes the here and now as the highest value, and not the hereafter. The comparison and interpretation presented here sees in Bevk’s work a direct connection to Prešeren’s poem, its thematic continuation, temporal adaptation, and interpretation.
Keywords: Christianization, France Prešeren, France Bevk, national awareness, paganism, Christianity, romantic poem, historical story, censorship, The Baptism on the Savica, The Dying God Triglav, Bled, Bohinj, Kobarid
Published in RUNG: 18.02.2019; Views: 3523; Downloads: 115
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