contain multitudes * http://www.alansondheim.org/multiples.png http://www.alansondheim.org/contain0.png http://www.alansondheim.org/contain2.png http://www.alansondheim.org/contain3.png multiples: When I was performing, around 2003-2007 maybe, maybe earlier, maybe a bit later as well, I worked with multiple files open on a single screen. This is from a performance at Miami University, Ohio. The resolution is terrible, but it gives a good idea of the complexity I was able to work with at that point. There are six running videos, all .mp4; I could bring these to foreground or background run them at different speeds, play sound from any or all of them. In the lower right, a sound file is running. On the left is a live index of all the files I'm using. At the bottom is live typing, which was also combined with live voice. In short, there are ten channels up, including voice. Quicktime ran lean. In a dance performance we did with Foofwa in Geneve, the background was filled with a continuous media improvisation on a large screen. If I remember correctly, I did this live; after that, the files, with additional ones, including fixed texts, were run by one of the members of the company. On screen by the way, the images were crystal-clear; setup was easy, and it gave me the chance to improvise with a great number of prerecorded media in combination with two or three other streams - live talk, live music, and live typing. The end result was the ability to _perform philosophy,_ to engage multiple strands of thought simultaneously, to weave a real and theoretical nexus of concepts, images, movement, sound and text. Today, such a performance would be difficult (but not impossible); the loading time of Windows 10+ is considerably slower than earlier versions. (I remember when Win 95 appeared to load instantaneously.) So something vital has been lost. (Of course this bloating is everywhere now; Facebook keeps adding more and more "features" until actual human communication is lost in the process - and a great many online news sources bury their texts in a sea of advertising that at times actually buries the stories them- selves.) The other three images are studies in containment and compression and for me are a form of commentary on the w/hole of images, imaginaries, texts, and sound. I do want to point out the projection/s and presentation was always in dialog with the company; neti neti, neither one nor the other, but some admixture in-between. With the Miami University presentation (and a number of others for that matter), I was solo; I also did some work in combination with Foofwa's solo dancing/movement, as well as embedding his live performance in the virtual world of Second Life. All in, all out, containing multitudes. *Dylan of course ___ _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
