mDNA Ma’s Melodies Mothers in the MultiMedia MicroEpic segment Motherlands MotherCultures MotherContinent sneak preview of the unfolding saga that reconnects Ancient & Modern Americas with ancestral cultures crisscrossing of pre-post Columbian/Colonial eras. See link
A selection of the mDNA – Ma’s Melodies informs and frames with melodies the segment Mothers Motherlands MotherCultures MotherContinent & The MultiMedia MicroEpic. Ma’s multicultural renditions are drawn from her ancestral memory in celebration of the reconnection of ancient cultures in the Americas.
Retrieving lost histories and heritage, reconnected through melodies, music, symbols, rituals, practices, festivals, beliefs this MotherContinent segment of the MultiMedia Micro Epic triad gives a sneak preview of hidden and unexplored interconnected global heritage nested in the offsprings of the South American continent, featuring Ma’s repertoire of music and melodies that reconnect pre and post colonial heritage and history and unite ancient Pacific-Atlantic Kriscrossings of discovery.
It casts beyond the near two hundred years colonial history stretching into the missing links of the Americas before the European interlude…the unexplored insubstantial landscapes of heritage unfurl through pathways yet unexplored to recreate and expand the knowledge of the Caribbean into its continental moorings …. Part of the MultiMedia MicroEpic of the Anthropocene, the new creative genre by Dr Kris Rampersad. With music by Randolph Karamath and Oliver Chapman.
About Mother Continent – the MultiMedia MicroEpic
In Mother Continent, the MultiMedia Micro Epic of the Anthropocene, the omniscient prtagonist continues her epic journey in search of where knowledge lives, even if we all ceased to be. She traverses five continents and three realms, meandering contortions in her heart’s arteries to piece together the distorted history and heritage of the Americas and the world, uniting her dual Mother Cultures and Mother Continents, of East and West, Science and Seance, History & Heritage, Arts & Humanities, Fact, Fiction, Truths and Alternative Truths.
New Creative Genre
This new MultiMedia Micro Epic as a genre adapts the classical epic long-form for short form new multimedia. It blends and condenses the styles, tools and techniques of the traditional classical epic with conventional (radio, television, print); traditional (cultural-stage/performance) and new multimedia tools. It therefore integrates a range of learning and communications styles, tools and techniques that include verbal and visual, oral and aural styles, languages and representations as text, image, motion and sound along with a host of literary devices and creative elements.
Multiple Communication & Education Modes
This new MultiMedia Micro Epic provides layered communication modes from classical to contemporary through audio-visual, motion and textual elements with classical epic and multimedia styles, tools and techniques. It also blends academia, journalism and pop culture, arts and science, fiction and non fiction, oral, aural and literary conventions and formal and non formal modes of expositions.
As a genre, the MultiMedia Micro Epic also expands and encompasses a range of other traditional genres of non-fiction as biography, documentary, journalese, with science/fiction, fantasy, lyrical prose poetry, song and drama through contemporary music video/visualisations, memes along with documentary and other evidence- based forms of expositions.
It is based on real events of the heroine’s quest for where knowledge lives – even if we all cease to be. The new multi media micro epic is framed by music and song. These represent an amalgam of musical styles from the confluence of diasporas of the Caribbean including Asia Pacific, Africa, Europe and the Americas.
Classical Epic Meets 21st Century Multimedia
The new MultiMedia Micro Epic maintains the core internal & external elements of the traditional epic inclusive of Muse heroism, lyricism, an epic quest, journey, perilous ‘adventures that traverses universal, earthly & underworldly spheres. It engenders the traditional epic with a heroine. It blends fact, fiction, fantasy with journalism, memes, blogging, folk song & music for an interactive immersive experience.
Thematically, it treats with many of the socio-cultural & political dilemmas of the Anthropocene: environment & heritage degradation & conservation, health, pollution, consumerism & consumption, gender inequalities, women’s & girls’ education, violence, extremism, global travel, migration, settlement, adaptation, post colonialism, governance, censorship marginalization, alienation, the North-South divide & other development deficits, gaps, opportunities & potentials.
It opens up academia & any user of new media to a new world of creativity utilising & valuing a range of traditional & technological knowledge sources.
Range of Exposition Forms
As a condensed epic form, the MultiMedia Micro Epic provides snippets that function doubly as ‘research’. It authenticates traditional folk and new technological knowledge, intuition, oral visual and aural tangible and intangible knowledge sources and holds up documentary sources as art, songs, newspaper articles, blogs, conference presentations, powerpoints, memes, music nature sounds and other unacknowledged forms of communications, inviting viewers to expand their curiosity to explore and discover more.
Hence, the viewer is immersed in the experience of exploring, in the quest for knowledge by the heroine. The quick snaps and fast pace also invite the viewer to pause, take note and think, as another form of accessing knowledge. It so promotes appreciation and respect for all types of knowledge to negate notions of superior and inferior knowledge that plagues modern systems.
Fast Paced into infinite time
Its treatment of time in condensed form is in may ways symbolic of our fast-paced age is symbolic of creation time and processes and promises replication and expansion of the multimedia micro epic genre into infinite micro-forms, and modes and medium of expressions through lyrical prose, poetry, fiction, non fiction, documentary and other forms of new media expositions.
Its universal scope draws from quick snap insights from the creator’s wide travel experience, photographs, articles, journalism, research & global engagements.
About Dr Kris Rampersad
Dr Kris Rampersad is an award winning journalist, innovator, educator and sometimes scholar, with a PhD in Literatures in English, a UNESCO-trained heritage educator/facilitator, National Geographic certified educator, global Woman Tech Makers’ Ambassador and Worldpulse/Google Digital Ambassador. read more here.
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