Being skeptical, I would venture to argue that it won't work, at least not the part that I was particularly interested in: the reverberation. You mention your colleague Foofwa dancing, in that environment, and you played in it and your microphone picked up the sound, the tremors and oscillations.
My interest lies in following through this experience of the resonation (tactile/haptic/kinetic and aural) and going deeper than skin, "beneath the surface of the event" as performance artist Victoria Gray calls it writing about a silent dance she performed crawling backwards on the floor for a long time.... She remembers how she "wove in and out of the negative space between bodies in the room (picture). The ground became a surface with which to detect the movement of spectators as each shift in the room was sensed through my skin via my bare torso. At times, it felt that my bones were conducting and amplifying the minutest sound of people’s movements. As such, these movements were sensed through my body as vibrations, rather than as visual information. My spine became a powerful aerial, conducting my peripheral senses. It was my primary orienteering device; an interface that processed not visual but kinesthetic data. Put simply it was as though each of the thirty three vertebrae in my spine became eyes, whilst the 31 pairs of spinal nerves acted as highly sensitized fingertips." She of course argues that her performance called the primacy of visual senses into question. In some of our own work with the DAP-Lab, and our constructions of audiophonic wearables (costumes and costume-instruments), we were particularly interested in how the garments, and the sound they make or enable to be generated (& amplified or processed) shift attention and awareness to aural and tactile registers; we had scenes also performed in near or complete darkness, and when we used light/electricity, in one scene on the "generation of the electric", we work with heavy pure noise. And we continue to experiment with "noise dance", further limiting or restraining the projected "worlds" (screens) we used to work with for a long time (film, video, photography, animation, 3d virtual worlds). The resonant analog-audio dialogues between costume instruments hold out attention, we study those now, and how the performers internalize their own sense of movement (if no external displacement across space is physically possible, if digital projections were de-placed or shrunk) and feel affect ..... that is why I raised also my questions about affect. How do others make sense of the affective? And so bye bye, Oculus Riff and Google Glasses and so on, their visualizations, i would have thought, cannot cope with the reverberations, in fact have to eliminate them. regards Johannes Birringer DAP-Lab http://people.brunel.ac.uk/dap/forthetimebeing.html (pic: Victoria Gray, Pressure Points (2011) (c) V Gray/Roshana Rubin-Mayhew. reference: Victoria Gray, "Beneath the Surface of the Event: Immanent Movement and the Politics of affective registers," Choreographic Practices 4:2 (2013), 173-87. ________________________________________ {Alan schreibt} The question of Cave audience is critical in a way. It's possible for five or six people to watch/participate at the same time, and larger caves have the potential for larger audiences of course. That will come. There are people working on exporting the whole environment using software that will permit viewers to use tablets, laptops, etc. If viewers use Oculus Rift or some such, they'd experience the 3d environment, only in front of them; there are people doing this already with virtual worlds. I can imagine a time shortly when augmented reality technology will permit a full-blown projection into the 'real world' as well. All of this, like virtual worlds themselves, are on the cusp of new development. Foofwa danced in the Cave with Azure, and it was amazing. Soon. Whether or not I'll have access depends on 'the kindness of strangers,' since I'm not formally connected anywhere. - Alan On Wed, 8 Oct 2014, Johannes Birringer wrote: > > Dear Alan thanks for your replies. After reading you I realize that my > questions about vibration were too much influenced by working in dance > and theatre, forgetting how important, as you suggest, vibration and > oscillation has been in music and sound art;
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