the material

I was considering to use some text
related to the theme of the five islands
how do people feel about if i used some phrases in italian?
...
Chloe

What sounds are we going to play?

Hi there,
I think that it would be good if we discuss about what sounds/samples we are going to play altogether via the MAX patch.
Me and Sean have been thinking to use water sounds.
I think that it would be good to think strategically to play and blend certain sounds only
We could add definition to the piece if we think together organizing sound patterns, textures, sections, etc..

Please think about what other sounds we should play and create a comment on the blog!

Speak soon
Eliseo

Five islands

This is the SEND patch

Copy the text in the Comment below, open max, choose File: New From Clipboard

then save the patch with a name like 'send lcc'

This is the RECEIVE patch.

Copy the text in the Comment below  (I cant just paste it in here for some reason). Open max and then choose File: New from Clipboard

Then save the patch with a good name (like Receive LCC)

This is a really simple patch - but shows how everything will work.

 

Meeting on Thursday at 1:30

We will be meeting at 1:30 this thursday at lcc.

Here is another outline of what we are doing :

Can you email me

I dont have everyones email addresses!

Can you email me at 

t.gardner@lcc.arts.ac.uk

thanks

Meet this week - 2 or 3 april

Id like us all to meet this week.

Who is free on Wednesday or Thursday?  (2nd or 3rd April)

plus... any week/day is good for me in march! i dont mind having a look at those patches Thomas!

Regards

Sean 12/03/08

Hey gang (most probably just Thomas) but as promised, here are the levels of the laguna* around venice, ive got all the data in a pdf, ill email, if you need them,

im also developing a patch in Max which harvests real-time data, i thought it might be cool if we could use real time data from the levels of the laguna to provide the 'standardised' pulse of the piece, if that sounds good?

Sean

Good videos of Nono works

Have a look at the Nono archive Myspace site
http://www.myspace.com/archivioluiginono

for some ideas about how the performance space might be conceived

Next meeting + latest news

I visited the festival hall and saw the variety of spaces that could work very well for us.
If we can get our project off the ground and give it a proper shape then it seems very likely that we can do a performance/installation.
The condition is that the work should be a response to Nono - and that it should have come together convincingly.
We may also have a performer from Sinfonietta to work with us.
There is a workshop on Monday (10th at lcc), where some of the ideas behind Prometeo will be discussed, and then another on Monday 21st April when we can try out our work with a visiting sinfonietta performer (this to be confirmed).

So that means that we have between now and 21st April to finalise a shape and structure.
I have developed some simple patches which help with the group communication, and it would be great if anyone who feels up to it can take them further.

My question is this - can we meet a couple of times in March (say the 3rd and 4th week) to rehearse and form the work? is everyone here?

Please post dates on this blog.
Im away from 4th to 19th April.

All the best
Thomas

Notes from Wednesday 13th

We set up this blogspace
Here are some notes from the class.

• The performances are on 9 and 10 May.
• We can use and adapt material created in Cathy's class.
• Im going to the festival hall next monday and will take some photos of the spaces we can use

In our search for significant themes for this performance, which respond to Nono we had this suggestion

Rising water levels in Venice. The construction of the protective wall around it. This is symptomatic of several things -
the paradoxical attitude 'we can beat nature'
the resulting creation of a box or ghetto around Venice (it was beautiful and open, now it must be enclosed) - The wall between Palestine and Israel
Nono also being enclosed and erased by contemporary culture.
We can extract and ponder on these themes.

I felt that Nono was very good at leaving space for real concerns to emerge and be felt. The feeling of space in his work allows kinds of anger/violence to return to a human context. How we treat the issue of rising water levels can be related to this - what are the issues behind the rising water.

Vocal and other simple themes
I suggested that we might find ways of simplifying the material that we use - for example, using a shared set of vocal recordings. This means that when switching between the rhythmic and arrhythmic pulse we will have a cohesive sound.

Think tanking
We will need to meet to try things out. Its only by doing this that we can see what is working and develop the positive ideas collectively.

Collective action
Related (perhaps) to this. We can put a voting facility into the sound system, someone proposes a change and if all or a majority agree it happens. This could create the odd situation where one is waiting for the last person to agree, and the timing of the event becomes their choice. Improvisation can occur much faster than this of course, but the administrative/political process is something we can act on. (is it a communist or democratic or fascist structure)

Think tanking
Our future sessions should emulate the layout and circumstances of the final performance space.

Remote/Random data - arrhythmical
Our source of random time varying data could be environmental statistics about the water height in the Venice lagoon, or tables about the degree of wood root in the supporting structure