>This is great (especially the auto computer
>crash, reminds me of Alex's stage management
>techniques), I look forward to seeing a
>performance at some point.
I'd like to know more about "Alex's stage management techniques".
I recently built an automatic stage manager for
an interactive music/image/interactive hypertable
concert thingy I do with the group "8=8".
cf.
http://www.abstractmachine.net/blog/?p=12
We called the program "Big_Daddy" because it runs
the show, not us -- the performers. It even
determines the start of the show, meaning that
performances start *on time*, down to the second.
It really is pleasant, and keeps things moving,
to have a program determining the order of the
sets and their lengths -- and not the lead
guitarist...
The question often with automatic conductors, is
how does the audience know about it? My collegues
from the group "PacJap" created a simple but
ingenious system that had a picture of each
participant in a big networked stream/mix/osc
whatever -- whenever someone contributed to the
flux, their picture lit up, or changed. Suddenly
you could understand who was doing what in the
performance.
--
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// Artiste
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// Chercheur, Laboratoire Esthétique de l'interactivité, Université de Paris 8
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Received on Sun Apr 23 2006 - 17:45:04 BST