talking about all this durational stuff today has really made me think.
iv not done much durational stuff, and the stuff i have done i have always found quite hard.
In choreographic lab we were given a durational exercise and i decided to repeat the same score for half an hour. one of the movements in this score was drawing a line on the floor with my finger. By then end of it the end of my finger had gone numb and started to hurt.
I wonder what would have happened if i had done it for a whole day, or more! I have seen performances where dancers danced with paint on paper and then sold the painting afterwards but what if a durational movement piece took place on paper. i mean like a really long durational piece. soon the paper would wear and you might even draw blood as i am sure my finger would have bled if i had done that score for long enough. What would be left on the paper? It would be like a recording of the performance.
Monday, 11 February 2008
Thursday, 7 February 2008
DUH!
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.
06 February 2008 12:18
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.
06 February 2008 12:18
shame!
iv been making comments instead of posting on my blog. So here the are!
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.
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.
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