NaRoRuMo 07
Nov. 7th, 2007 10:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexr_rwxTonight: Sort of an odd running expedition, but about four miles. From the house out to the far side of Tech campus, with a stop to see the Flock, this wild musical piece put together by Jason Freeman, with help from Martin ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
samarin (this had to do with your masters project, yes?), including generous post-graduation helpings-out!
Flock is a piece for "saxophone quartet, dancers, electronic sound, video, and audience participation". The saxophone players were wearing these wonderful black baseball caps, each with a glowing ball on top, of a different color. And they were wandering around the room, and the motion-tracking cameras in the ceiling translated this into different music, which was sent wirelessly to the little PDAs strapped to their music stands. Then the audience got up and started walking around in the performance space, and Martin handed us little cards with instructions on how to clump into groups and rules for splitting and joining and moving the groups -- it felt sort of Game-of-Life-y, but certainly a very informal formal system, in that it involved people largely freely walking around.
And there was a display showing what the blob-tracking software was seeing, and fairly intuitively clear how this was changing the music (the audience was the percussive bits in the music, I think). Hooray Martin. Oh. And I guess hooray Jason too.
... and then I ran home.
samarin (this had to do with your masters project, yes?), including generous post-graduation helpings-out!Flock is a piece for "saxophone quartet, dancers, electronic sound, video, and audience participation". The saxophone players were wearing these wonderful black baseball caps, each with a glowing ball on top, of a different color. And they were wandering around the room, and the motion-tracking cameras in the ceiling translated this into different music, which was sent wirelessly to the little PDAs strapped to their music stands. Then the audience got up and started walking around in the performance space, and Martin handed us little cards with instructions on how to clump into groups and rules for splitting and joining and moving the groups -- it felt sort of Game-of-Life-y, but certainly a very informal formal system, in that it involved people largely freely walking around.
And there was a display showing what the blob-tracking software was seeing, and fairly intuitively clear how this was changing the music (the audience was the percussive bits in the music, I think). Hooray Martin. Oh. And I guess hooray Jason too.
... and then I ran home.
