Love: Triptych

"I"- Domain of mind, intelligence: business relations, dramatic intrigue, dramatic action; classical, a little retrograde, conservative	"S" - "New animality": glamour, fashion, sport, stimulants, sex	"X" - new transcendence (in absence of god and religion, or in attempt of searching of a new god) otherwordliness, images of non-existence, inhuman reality, abstractness, cubism, "inorganic state of matter", virtual reality, hallucinogens.
"I" = Tonal music: with its principles of logic, order, development, tonal gravity, melody, form, tension and release, etc.	"S" = House-music: beat, power and flexibility, repetitiveness, explicit energy; melody and harmony impede, continuous state of agitation, being high	"X" = Contemporary academic music: absence of clear system and form, oddness, fragmentation, harsh dissonant soundings, noise, weirdness, combination of composer's sophistication and illegibility of a piece
Classical and late tonal composers	Contemporary dance music	Schoenberg, modern composers, Late Coltrane, "horror of non-crossing planes", aspiration "beyond boundaries"


human	super-animal	alien, homunculus
face	body	weird clothes
intelligence	sex	abstractness
rational	sensual	irrational
dramatic intrigue	dance	trip
"you encounter something that requires some effort to comprehend"	easy	"a look from the other world", "something that doesn't need you"
Hollywood movies, operas, novels	fashion TV and magazines, porn	video-art
focused	being high, obsession	altered state
feelings	sexual attraction, joyride/gap	-
catharsis, transformation into a new quality	"I can't get no satisfaction"	-
action, creation è demolition	run for pleasures	-
complex system	simple system	super-complex system/chaos

The essential meaning content of the show - to embody the imagery of the three components of modern reality described above, to lead the protagonists' love through these three states: I, S, X; to immerse the audience into "three solutions", show the values and weaknesses of each.

First movement takes place in "domain of mind", in the network of urban society. Characters meet each other, fall in love and try to build their love in "normal life context". They encounter contradictions and conflicts: differences in man's and woman's understanding of love and their expectations from the partner, social aspect: the protagonist, being a musician, is not well-off enough, questions of marriage and having children. An intrigue arises: Trumpeter gets a rival, as Girl gets interested in a guy from her business circle. Their relations cut short, they kind of leave their conversation dangling in the mid-air. Trumpeter feels alienation and gives way to nihilist speculations, Girl, after hanging with a "successful careerist", feels that something is missing, something precious that revealed to her while being with Trumpeter.

Music of the first movement is tonal (advanced chromatic tonal system). Jazz suite - "man's statement", logic. Come Dance song is much of a "woman's aria", seduction and gaining control over man. Body and Soul 2.0 - deep and complex emotion, a polyphonic journey through subconsciousness, longing for love and transcendence - a kind of a preface to the Third movement.

Second movement takes place in a burning hot atmosphere of "new animality": cult of body and sex, glamour, hedonism, run for pleasures. Heroes meet at an island resort - outside of urban society and its conventions, surrounded by beautiful people, vigorous music and sensual nature. There they find a new way towards each other: they experience an outburst of affection, joy of mutuality, great influx of vitality, they are carried away with a wave of new love - sensual, intimate, tender, free of tension and stress of the First movement. This love is free even of jealousy (which makes it seem invulnerable) - they get engaged in threesome, and this episode only applies a new dimension to their affection to each other. They run away to a deserted beach, where they talk about love with great inspiration, enjoy suddenly occurred closeness and ease, breakdown of all barriers and obstacles, they speak tender and intimate, make plans of their shared future. At dawn Trumpeter finds Girl unconscious.

Third movement takes place outside the common human reality, bears the creative impulse of transcendence beyond human destiny, human share. Girl falls into a coma, probably because of stimulants. Doctors "digitize" her mind. She becomes a sort of "homunculus" - a mind without a body. At first, protagonist "relates" to a mind which is outside of life, he sees a horror of non-existence. He realizes, though, that his love has this irrational dimension, too, and has had it before. Gradually he manages to establish some kind of communication, his love revives Girl.

From one side, love is a contraposition, antithesis of non-existence, but from the other side, it contains some kind of transcendence to cosmos, beyond boundaries of human and life. Having been THERE, protagonist realizes something inside himself, what he used to not notice before, he (as a jazzman) "understands what late Coltrane is about", he reveals "love supreme", higher, cosmic love.

Music of the Third movement - contemporary academic music, atonal, cold, otherworldly, cosmic, "contemplating at gigantic objects". Gradually the beat establishes, music turns into flight-like-feeling electric guitar passages, the cold cosmos becomes a little "populated" and fascinating, more of an exciting flying-in-a-dream feeling.

The Final act is a synthesis of the three elements: I+S+X. None of those is viable by itself, but the true love is all three. Trumpeter and Girl come back to the City having changed. Now they have the experience of Dionysian euphoria on the beach and their "cosmic journey". They feel that their true love has just started.

	"-"	"+"
I	Philistinism, following a scheme	creation, intellect
S	narcissism, sadism, "Glamorama", "American Psycho"	pleasures
X	alienation, non-existence, madness	transcendence beyond human destiny