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lesson 1.
I found what simon did with the camera, mic and headphones so simple but extremly effective. For me this has helped because when i think of multimedia in performance i think of big projections and really overpowering stuff like that. i kind of see it as more of a cinema experience. (if that makes any sense). But as was explained in the lesson, some of the old technology is still pretty successfull and i agree.
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Lauren - I am interested by what you call a cinematic experience. What do you mean? What is it about the other day's 'peformance' that reminded you of your experience of cinema?
(For what it's worth, I think I agree, but my experience of cinema might be fundamentally different from yours).
ske
I guess the reason why i consider alot of the multimedia performances i have seen and read about cinematic is because it is mainly visual and not participatory, just like in the cinema. I have often been able to interact with the performers but the multimedia usually came in the form of a projection or music which i had to sit back and look at and listen to. i found the mic performance in class merged performer, audience and multimedia into one. For me, if one of those components was missing it would not have been successfull.
hey - i am interested in your use of the word 'participatory' -- it is such a can of worms in performance. or maybe the 'holy grail' for some? i posted a link on NILE re "media and participation" fyi (& have ordered book for library).
a deeply engaging experience yesterday in MR1 by the way -- but more of that later.
wow. the blog is not in my routine yet so keep forgetting about it. got it written on my hand now though!
by participatory i mean performance that is interactive with the audience and breaks the fourth wall convention. As for the dvd we were shown in class for me that was what i would call a cinematic experience when it comes to multimedia use in performance. apart from maybe the interaction between performer and media? its getting complicated now, i must give it more thought.
i actually really enjoyed our assessment and probably should write about it.
for our piece we used:
•Small diaphragm condenser microphone.
•XLR Cable.
•Mixer.
•XLR to jack.
•Headphones.
whilst experimenting with the equipment we found the use of the headphones intensified the sonic experience for the audience member and experimented further.
we soon came up with the idea of whispering in the audience members ear only they would be wearing the headphones and through one side would be a mediatised voice and the other would be the performer talking into the audience members ear.
We felt that gossiping would be a good topic to draw the audience member in but we only gave them 30 seconds to listen.
the space was set up so that the audience member could see the person who's voice was being mediatised and was sitting next to the other whispering performer whilst the class was lined up and given time slots by janice.
the reason i enjoyed doing it was because the media was completley intergrated within the piece although it wasnt the focus. It was also a bit of a test to see how long we could talk continually! I wonder what would have happened if it were over a longer period of time.
looking at the things posted on NILE i really loved one of the filmed pieces, although i cannot find it now! maybe it was removed? but it was the one where all the performers were lined up and they simply took their tops off but the film was on a loop so it looked like they kept pulling their tops up then down. it was a bit of an illusion because i thought they were actually moving like that! felt a bit stupid when i realised what was happening but i really loved it and had to watch it a couple more times.
is this posting on my blog or am i just making comments?
yes - i'm afraid you've just commented your own post (several times). oh well - you can edit it (cut and paste and put it in new post) as you see fit.
i haven't taken down any links - so it should still be there. not sure which one it is though!
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