Day 11: (Tue Oct 1) Performance Planning

Notes for 2019-10-01. See also the Fall 2019 Calendar.

Notes from Day 10

Agenda

  1. Administrative

    • Friday, Oct 11, 6:30 “performance”. Could be treated like an open house or a show.

  2. Assignments

    • Individual, TBD.

  3. In-class

    • Review and critique exercise 4 videos.

    • Performance Planning

Performance Resources

  1. the characters so far

    1. Pointeo and Hoopiet

    2. waving hands

    3. Martha Graham dancers

    4. whirligig gears/oil derrick

    5. feathered creatures

  2. setting and dressing

    1. laser-cut plywood

    2. feathers

    3. fabric

    4. unexplored: multiples and ensembles

    5. unexplored: costuming, props

    6. unexplored: stage, setting

  3. actuation and movement

    1. sixteen stepper motor channels (allocated as we wish)

    2. passive mechanics (e.g. whirlygigs)

    3. overlapping 2D movemetns

    4. underexplored: counterbalanced mechanics

    5. unexplored: out-of-plane motions

  4. choreography and animation

    1. real-time Python control system, scripting, motion generation

    2. MIDI performer input

    3. unexplored: MIDI sequencing

    4. unexplored: additional low-level primitives, e.g. traditional trapezoidal moves, cubic splines

    5. unexplored: idiosyncratic physical interface, e.g. puppet controller

  5. light and shadow

    1. Source Four lights

    2. LED lights

    3. wall shadows

    4. uexplored: DMX lighting control

    5. unexplored: scrim shadows

  6. sound and music

    1. motor sound

    2. unexplored: synthesized or prerecorded sound

  7. sensing and interaction

    1. unexplored: sensing systems

  8. other

    1. abundant computing

    2. the A5 lab space

Discussion Prompts

  1. We’ve been building bottom-up; let’s turn it around again and once again ask:

    1. What’s the premise?

    2. What’s the theme?

    3. Is there a framing device?

  2. What characters should be further developed? Do they relate in some way?

  3. How does automation change the meaning of the performance?

  4. How can we divide tasks over the next week?