On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 13:10, Dave Griffiths wrote:
> Thinking about it - my whole POV in this thread is based on the assumption
> that we want people to understand. If we are just using livecoding as a better
> way to make music - which is perfectly valid IMHO, then it's not important -
Hmm, for me at least I think there's a confusion between several
statements:
statement one:
The process should be visible or audible in such a way that people
should be able to see/hear what the process is doing.
statement two:
The process should be visible or audible in such a way that people
should be able to understand how the process was made (or is being
made).
statement three:
The process should be visible or audible in such a way that people
should be able to understand how the process is working.
I think I most identify with statement one. As programmer the code is
very important but for the audience what it is doing (or what i'm doing
through it) is what they're mostly concerned with.
Statement two means people have to read and understand your code
manuscripts. This is what I am not sure is useful.
Statement three is what I think we've been talking about most recently -
animated debuggers, visualisations where sound is primary, sonifications
where visuals are primary, etc. But underneath, I think this is really
the same as statement one; what we're doing here is just making a
multimedia performance.
The aims behind both statement one and statement three are to avoid
smoke and mirrors, and create something that allows people direct access
to whatever you're trying to create.
Statement two seems very different, expecting the audience to be
interested in how you made something, not just what you made.
> but then why project screens?
So the audience don't feel excluded, which they might be if they're
lined up sat in chairs looking at you. They're less likely to feel
excluded if they're dancing around on a dancefloor, so it's less
important to project screens in that situation, in my opinion.
alex
Received on Thu Oct 28 2004 - 12:26:49 BST