High House Production Park, Purfleet Following CGAA's successful participation in last year's ACT project, in which our students, staff and alumni collaborated to create an animation inspired by composer Darius Milhaud's 1923 ballet, La création du monde , we've been challenged by ACT once again to visualise classical music in new and speculative ways. The piece in question is Giuseppe Verdi's mighty Requiem (1874), a musical setting of the Roman Catholic funeral mass. Verdi's ninety minute Requiem is perhaps best known to most of us by the explosive Dies Irae or Day of Wrath: On the evening of July 3rd and 4th at the Royal Opera House's High House Production Park at Purfleet, Verdi's Requiem will be performed live by an ensemble of 300 musicians - and beamed live via a screen into the Production Park's orchard. Our mission is to devise an innovative way of visualising the music of the Requiem that will compliment and enr...
BA Hons Computer Animation Arts is a 3 year degree course at the University for the Creative Arts, Rochester, UK.