The Conscious Unconsciousness A Corporeal Monodrama with Electronic Music

This paper explores embodied self-exploration and healing through an originalmultimedia performance work, The Path. The project investigates how integrating sound
design, electronic music composition, interactive technology, choreography, filming, and
video editing externalizes internal struggles, depicts transformative processes, and
communicates profound emotional states. Through seven structured sections, the
narrative follows a veiled character burdened by physical restraints and identity-masking
attire. Their journey—from isolation, cyclical struggle with imposed identities, and
despair, to confrontation, healing, and ultimate liberation—serves as a metaphor for
confronting challenging mental states and achieving authentic self-discovery. The
methodology centers on autobiographical inquiry, utilizing movement, designed objects,
and digital tools to create highly personal artistic expression. Sound design plays a crucial
role, employing processed vocal fragments, environmental textures, motion-triggered
feedback, percussive elements, and saxophone drones to sonically manifest psychological
tension, memory intrusion, and catharsis. Visual choices, including strategic use of noise,
monochrome palettes, and layered symbolic props, reinforce themes of burden, failed
solutions, and gradual shedding. Crucially, the work positions itself as a potential
therapeutic model, proposing that non-verbal, body-centered creation offers pathways to
understanding unresolved emotional pain and somatic trauma. The resulting film
documents a raw, vulnerable process of self-confrontation, demonstrating how creative
media becomes a powerful instrument for personal discovery, resilience, and
communicating complex psychological states.