Let's try that.
I've been involved in Marcel's thing a couple of times and I feel
that it's an excellent approach with one major drawback: if you don't
do it very often, it's seductive to prepare and perform, hoping that
you'll be better, rather than compete. So a (beforehand unknown)
subject might force you to be really creative. Although I'd be more
interested in the more abstract categories of the Pictionary game: to
sonify 'American Civil War' or 'democracy' seem to be more
interesting than 'car' or 'computer'.
Secondly, and I'm not sure what to think of that, the audience will
have a different frame of reference. They will judge you differently,
since they have for sure a frame of reference.
Lastly, normally you really have to have the same tools, preparing
subpatchers or equivalents are not allowed, all from scratch. In this
case though, that might also become less important, especially since
your not limiting yourself anymore to programming (environments).
l.
On 22-jul-2010, at 22:22, Kassen wrote:
> Dear list,
>
> I just noticed this game; http://games.lego.com/en-us/products/
> 3844.aspx
>
> Basically it's pictionairy, except with Lego bricks. Looks like a
> stimulating thing to play*. This then leads to new ideas; perhaps
> we could do the same thing synthesising sounds, sending players
> words like "bird", "rain", "fireworks", "dog", "space-ship", etc,
> and having them try to synthesise the sounds those things make. I
> like this because it has the competitive element to push people a
> bit (I still agree with Marcel on that) yet it also encourages
> creativity over just "fat beats" (as competing for applause tends
> to do) and yet it could also be played across systems (unlike the
> game of picking random linguistic constructs). As far as I'm
> concerned owners of hardware modulars (and big cars....) could
> play. Conceivably this could be played between graphical and sound-
> based systems as well, provided the "cards" are adapted to that.
>
> Yours,
> Kas.
>
>
>
>
> *see http://www.pawfal.org/dave/blog/2010/07/leikkia-pelata-soittaa-
> play/ for a nice note on that word.
Received on Fri Jul 23 2010 - 06:54:01 BST