In attempting to re-create electronic media, the group presents two performances: Eletrobrecht and Música de amor
The Tetine Group was formed in São Paulo in 1995 aiming to work with the re-creation of electronic media, integrating music, corporal performance, and video images. Integrated by the actress Eliete Mejorado and the musician and linguist Bruno Verner, Tetine went after the cooperation of composers, sound engineers and image creators to produce performances and CDs, attempting to explore different attributes of music and speech so as to obtain a personalized and unique sound expression. Since last year the artist Alexandre da Cunha has joined the duo who initially formed the group, and has taken charge of art design at performances as well as video production and editing.
The work presented at Videobrasil consist of two independent performances. The first one, Eletrobrecht, is a new version of a work previously created at the time of Bertold Brecht's centennial celebrations. Through the re-creation of a text (Setsuan's Good Soul), spoken narrative was established and harmonically superimposed to a sonorous background created from a musical base. Video integrates the performance through circumstancial interventions, as an active element of the work staged by the two characters on scene. lt shows pre-recorded images of various sources from film and video, shot during research.
The same elements, with an all-inclusive proposal, are employed in the performance Música de amor (Love Music). With an even more intense usage of narrative text, both spoken and projected, the performance attempts to explore the senses connected to love and its consequent passional outbursts like hate, envy and sensuality. "It is fun, albeit without humor, dealing with the romantic traits we all have", as tha authors explain.
Tetine's work is the result of a pioneering project in Brazil, although there are similar manifestations in other parts of the world. As a matter of fact, the group embraces a generation language found among creators who produce similar work and are concerned with the exploration of language resources combined with other elements such as video and music. Furthermore, the group assumes the stance of also deploying elements like pop music as opposed to what usuaily happens with other electronic media creators, whose boldness and experimentation are, for the most part, practicafly limited by a commitment to academic formality.
