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Nov. 25th, 2002, 6 pm, EST, multi-site telepresence dance:
"Here I come again/Flying Birdman" :
http://www.dance.ohio-state.edu/dance_and_technology/birdman.html
"Here I come again" is a telematic "earthwork" linking five remote
sites in the United States with two locations in Brazil. It is based
on narratives/dreams and structured spirally as a "Renga" (linked poem)
composed of live dance; real-time audio and sound processing, precorded
filmic images; still images,and both spoken voice and graphic
textcommunication exchanged by participants during the live
performance.
The linked sites are Columbus (Ohio), Tempe (Arizona), Salt Lake City
(Utah), Madison (Wisconsin), Detroit (Michigan), Brasilia and Sao Paulo
(Brazil).
The performances delve into "left overs," debris, decomposing sites,
dumps, and the idea of re-cycling; what is returned needs to be
transported from one site to another.
The anchoring voice of the Flying Birdman runs through the entire
60-minute telematic performance ("Here I come again"), but this voice
of the
Birdman is also under-scored with subtle audio mixes and other traveling
and whispering voices that function like echos or reverberations. Words
are chosen by the participating performers, picked up and digitally
transformed by the other collaborating site partners. The run-on voice
of the Birdman is performed by all five sites while the other streams
are created (video, movement, still images, writing). The Birdman's
voice changes and transforms (from one language to an other).
Each local site experiments with panoramic screen (with many windows
open at the same time) allowing for the performers/participants to see
all sites dialogue with each other in a spiral rather than having all
streams mixed down to one multicast. This also allows local live
audiences to see all sites in parallel realtime operation (in the
renga-like spiral of scenes). Online audiences can follow the scenes
(via URLs) as we have outlined them on our Birdman website.
The dramaturgy for this telematic "earthwork" envisions a spiralling
dialogue /communication - between sites and "non-sites" - with at
least 2 sites dialoguing with each other (video, audio) at any given
time during the 10 scenes. The dialogue is passed on and moves around,
as in the Renga form of a linked poem.
This event marks the going-public season ("Monday Night Live") of our
telematic research collaboration.
Johannes Birringer
for ADAPT
Association for Dance and Performance Telematics
http://www.dance.ohio-state.edu/workshops/ips3.html
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