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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