Digital transformation of musical and choreographic art:

Preserving national archetypes

Abstract

The rapid development of digital technologies created the need for the development of methodological approaches to the integration into the performing arts while preserving cultural authenticity. The aim of the study was the formation of a system of criteria for preserving national identity during the implementation of digital innovations in musical and choreographic art. The research was based on a systematic approach to the study of the transformation of cultural archetypes in the digital space. Specific manifestations of Ukrainian archetypes (Sophianity, the word, the land) and three levels of interaction with digital tools were identified: structural, regulative, and representative. An authenticity assessment table was created, which systematised musical elements, choreographic elements, permissible transformations, and technological solutions for three categories: basic elements of national tradition, elements of partial processing, and generative forms. Technological solutions for preserving authenticity were proposed: motion capture systems for recording national plasticity, spectral analysis algorithms for preserving the timbral characteristics of folk instruments, and neural networks for analysing and reproducing folkloric elements. Using the example of the musical and choreographic work The Passion for Taras by Yevhen Stankovych, the effectiveness of the developed approaches for preserving cultural codes during digital modernisation was demonstrated.