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TITLE

TIME

AUDIO

VIDEO

LIVE – Performers

LIVE - Activity

 

EQUIPMENT

 

PRESHOW — 34:25 —  Unstable Musics (2008)

 

PART I –

 

Cyberpuppets (1996)

4:00

Background Audio on site

Cyber Puppetsª module

-        one speaker

Speaker introduces concert via cyberpuppets, which he operates

Laptop – projection system.

To Do Listª (in progress)

40:00

Articles of Spaceª: 6 vocalists, sustained electronic bass

Live Video Jam (feedback + flash app

-        Speaker -  audio performer/mixer

-        6 vocalists

-        Visualist(s)

Speaker speaks parts of to-do list while vocalists sing CD/iPod scored texts. Visualist(s) manipulate live video feedback and overlay flash elements.

 

Laptop/sound mixerÕs rig (mixer, mic, KAOS pad  – all provided) for speaker.

Laptop/ desktop computers for visualists. Optional: Video Mixer

RAPIDª (2004)

8:03

(DVD)

(DVD)

 - -

 - -

DVD player/ projector

INTERVAL — 15:00 — Slicer Studies (2002) and Nightingale Etudes (2008)

 

PART II –

 

DIGITAL CINEMA

FilmDogª (2004)

7:12

(DVD)

(DVD)

 - -

 - -

DVD player/ projector

American Sockª (2001)

8:23

(DVD)

(DVD)

 - -

 - -

DVD player/ projector

PERFORMATIVE MEDIA

Hoverª/Iaghtª (2006)

9:35

Hoverª/Iaghtª DVD audio

Hoverª/Iaghtª DVD Video

-        6 vocalists

-        Director

-        (previous version: 3 poets reciting iPod poetry)

Vocalists sing texts according to iPod tracks. Director supervises vocal mix

6 CD players/iPods

DVD player/ projector

 

Web Symphony v. 2.0 (1999-2008)

(Mashup with Fleshyª video)

20:00

Fleshyª DVD audio

Fleshyª DVD video

-        X orchestral musicians – 2 to 3 per laptop (minimum- 6 performers, 2 laptops

-        audio performer/mixer

-        (optional – orchestral performers online via ejamm, other software)

Musicians play notation generated from flash App

 audio performer/mixer processes audio from instruments in real time (KAOS pad, etc.)

 

Laptops

Sound mixerÕs rig (mixer, mic, KAOS pad  – all provided)

DVD player/ projector

 

 


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TITLE

TIME

AUDIO

VIDEO

LIVE – Performers

LIVE – Activity

(previous performances)

 

EQUIPMENT

 

Multimedia – Performance Works

Web Symphony v. 2.0 (1999-2008)

(Mashup with Fleshyª video)

20:00

Fleshyª DVD audio

Fleshyª DVD video

-        X orchestral musicians – 2 to 3 per laptop (minimum- 6 performers, 2 laptops

-        audio performer/mixer

-        (optional – orchestral performers online via ejamm, other software)

Musicians play notation generated from flash App

 audio performer/mixer processes audio from instruments in real time (KAOS pad, etc.)

 

Laptops

Sound mixerÕs rig (mixer, mic, KAOS pad  – all provided)

DVD player/ projector

 

Hoverª/Iaghtª (2006)

9:35

Hoverª/Iaghtª DVD audio

Hoverª/Iaghtª DVD Video

-        6 vocalists

-        Director

-        (previous version: 3 poets reciting iPod poetry)

Vocalists sing texts according to iPod tracks. Director supervises vocal mix (Dickinson College, 2006)

6 CD players/iPods

DVD player/ projector

 

To Do Listª (in progress)

40:00

Articles of Spaceª: 6 vocalists, sustained electronic bass

Live Video Jam (feedback + flash app

-        Speaker -  audio performer/mixer

-        6 vocalists

-        Visualist(s)

Speaker speaks parts of to-do list while vocalists sing CD/iPod scored texts. Visualist(s) manipulate live video feedback and overlay flash elements.

 

Laptop/sound mixerÕs rig (mixer, mic, KAOS pad  – all provided) for speaker.

Laptop/ desktop computers for visualists. Optional: Video Mixer

Excerpts from BAD MIND TIMEª (1995 - present) – performative approach to media on web

 

Cyberpuppets (1996)

4:00

Background Audio on site

Cyber Puppetsª module

-        one speaker

Speaker introduces concert via cyberpuppets, which he operates

Laptop – projection system.

Dave Saga (1989/ 1995)

6:00

Background Audio on site

Dave Sagaª module

-        6 actors (Dave, A Man, A Woman, B Man, B Woman, C Woman)

-        puppetmaster/mistress

Puppetmaster/mistress plays Dave Sagaª characters - they

Headphone amp  + 6 headphones.

Excerpts from Anatomy of Melancholyª (2005) – digital media opera deconstruction kit

Optional theatricality: Box (soporano/alto have hands in box) and 2 treadmills (for tenor, bass), or they run in place (for aluminum robot boy)

Act 1, Scene 2, Aluminum Robot Boy

7:35

On DVD

On DVD

-        4 vocal soloists (probably amplified)

Vocalists sing texts according to iPod tracks.

4 iPods

 

Act 3, Scene 2, RAPID

7:20

On DVD

On DVD

-        ad hoc ensemble of percussionsts,dancers

(slow dance in foreground as this plays in background)

 

Act 3, Scene 3, True-Object-False

6:25

On DVD

On DVD

-        4 vocal soloists (probably amplified)

 

Vocalists sing texts according to iPod tracks.

 

4 iPods

 

Digital Cinema

FilmDogª (2004)

7:12

(DVD)

(DVD)

 - -

 - -

DVD player/ projector

American Sockª (2001)

8:23

(DVD)

(DVD)

 - -

(Broadcast Design Association International Design Competition Silver Award, Los Angeles 2002)

DVD player/ projector

RAPIDª (2004)

8:03

(DVD)

(DVD)

 - -

 (Future Music Oregon concert, 2004)

DVD player/ projector

Concert Films (videos of live performances)

Adagio from Cyborg Symphony (1993)

10:30

(DVD in development)

 - -

(Seven Stages Theatre, Atlanta, 1993)

DVD player/ projector

Thunder, Perfect Mind (1984) - video

9>00

(DVD in development)

 - -

 

DVD player/ projector

Concert Music (works for live performance without video)

Toot-toot (1983)

9:40

--

 -

-        12 performers

-        Stereo tape

-        Conductor

 

Ensemble performance of very simple written score. (performances: Network for New Music, Phiadelphia, 1984)

Toys, bottles, recorders, additional stereo tape played over boombox

Thunder, Perfect Mind (1984) – live performance

9:00

--

 -

-        15 performers

-        Conductor

Ensemble bows pianos, co-ordinated by conductor (live performance -  University of Wisconsin, 1986; performance video University of Iowa, 1987)

3 grand pianos

40 – 45 bows (created out of a couple dozen strands of monofilament – fishing line – tied on each end. )

Fons chymicae veritatis / RogerÕs Story (1992)

11:25

--

 -

-        6 vocalists

-        conductor/speaker

Ensemble sings texts on iPods, then conductor speaks text while ensmble bows metal

(live performance, Georgia State University, 1992)

6 iPods or CD players

Bowed metal instruments (broiler plates, metal bookends, various lids or pans with holes drilled in them)

Paradoxa (1998)

8:25

--

 -

-        6 vocalists

-        conductor/speaker

Ensemble sings texts on iPods. (Decatur New Music Festival)

6 iPods. or CD players

Articles of Spaceª (memento moriª) (2001)

19:11

Sustained electonic bass track

 -

-        6 vocalists

-        Director

Vocalists sing texts according to iPod tracks.

Director supervises vocal mix (performances: Western Oregon University, University of Oregon, 2001)

6 iPods. or CD players camera for feedback,