sounds great fun; I've grabbed the photo and no doubt we can discuss it
during sheffield livecode.
I ran a human improvisers live coding session with Brighton improvising
ensemble In Sand last month; I guess that will be one thing I report on at
the festival. We used individual instruction sheets on stands for each
musician (they could pass notes to each other and I wandered around causing
trouble). But I like the blackboard idea- maybe just leading via
projector+computer would also be fun.
best
N
--On 16 June 2007 00:04:39 +0100 alex <alex_at_lurk.org> wrote:
>
> Earlier I was a small part of something called "Assembly", 11th in a
> series of large group improvisations organised by Adem
> (http://adem.tv/).
>
> The improvisers could bring their own instrument or use one provided by
> Adem. There were plenty of instruments to go around, and the audience
> was invited to join the improvisation. There were probably around 20
> improvisers. Electric powered instruments (such as laptops) weren't
> allowed.
>
> Then Adem and others took turns to write instructions on a large
> blackboard. An instruction would be written, and a signal would be made
> to enact it. Sometimes an earlier instruction would be pointed at and
> re-enacted. Some instructions were later modified. Some instructions
> had loops (play long sounds, then short sounds, repeat). Some
> instructions were just abstract shapes.
>
> It worked very well. I'm afraid it was rather dark, so my camera phone
> pictures of the board afterwards didn't come out too well:
> http://flickr.com/photos/yaxu/553711876/?rotated=1&cb=1181947867712
>
> alex
>
>
Received on Sat Jun 16 2007 - 19:26:01 BST