Wednesday, 9/10/2014 Meeting Notes
Lighting Workshop (Fall 2014) Planning Session
(Attending: Xin Wei, Chris, Pete, Ozzie, Byron, Mike K., 3 students)
Preparing a presentation and a performance
It’s about rhythm, sounds and frequencies. XW will work with Chris and Omar about lighting. Also, some Grads should talk to Omar about what they want to do with the lights, what they want to achieve experientially.
Corpus that emits light by movement in a blackbox (front, backwards recognition, body architecture, synchronicity, shadows, reflection, casting) – question of self and other “when is this my body?” It’s not so clear anymore… delays in time… “is the shadow mine, or someone else’s?”
Temporal space
Kant – symmetry; left, right… the construction of identity. David Morris wrote an essay about phenomenology. Refer to that essay.
Auditory and optical space in time. If we have zero agency shadows….
Julian Stein’s Rhythm Toolkit
Record (Jitter code); temporal displacement (the shadow of a flickering light)
Chris: shadow and perception – silhouettes
We can get extremely precise in a small, 3-day exercise: easy to accomplish things with our kit. …by the 17th or 18th, then we can get our hands on the GitHub and laptops and access to really run the code in the blackbox. Work with the systems to modify cues….
September goals
Everyone show know the TML code, the video stuff and the GitHub.
Everyone should know Julian Stein (first point of contact – he’s the one-stop shop, the one responsible for the kit), Evan Montpellier and Navid Navab.
Have some creative exercises happening in the iStage… movement games, with tracking and non-tracking lights, etc. Then Xin Wei will talk with Pavan and his grad students.
(On Wednesdays from today on out, we’ll talk about the research questions.)
Synchronicity and “Entrainment”
Construct algorithms to make detectors (Pavan) – phenomenological, listen to the students (Nov) – make a rhythm toolkit. The first version is in the GitHub.
In March, work with Pavan and Byron to make those instruments – when John and Fiona come in March – “Heartbeat” – and we’ll have the instruments
Adrian Freed has a rich description of different kinds of synchronicity and temporal textures (CNMAT); co-mingling. We’ll try to get him here to do a workshop.
1). Rhythm is not based in symmetric regularity – being in sync didn’t require it at all. We’re trying to build computational algorithms…
Or it might be energy-transfer….
2). Rhythm doesn’t have to be one-dimensional. What does it mean? Take a video on the floor, put it in space.
Set up on the 13-14 Nov; start workshop on the 17th (Lighting Workshop)