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Cluster will be performed at Glyde Hall Studio 13

Thursday November 16th 4.30pm

see below (distribution ReadMe for more notes )

Introduction

Chantal and Julian are developing a colloborative sound piece called Cluster which will be developed into a musical/audio mediascape performance.

The piece is going to be authored in 3 parts - a series of recorded performances, a scored joint Choral Walk where everyone will sing, and a mediascape structure. The piece will be performed as a mediascape walk.

Performances

Each artist/participant in the lab (and any other interested performers) are invited to come and perform a short piece which will be recorded.

You can use any instrument or non instrument that generates sound apart from voice. You don't have to be a trained musician and you can use anything that makes noise, but you must be able to play it expressivley. We will be asking you to improvise a performance based on a series of instructions. You can also choose your 'instrument' depending on the instructions we give.

Please sign up here:

Please meet at Studio 13 in Glyde Hall (the collaboration studio). We have portable recording equipment if you need to go to a particular place for your performance.

Performance Parameters

Parameters Performer Adjective Mood Colour Dynamic Duration Pitch Instrument Notes Tracks
Elley Wet Melancholic Ultramarine Medium 60 seconds Medium Beer Bottles with Water 2 takes 2,3,4,5
Michael Textural Sleepy Salt White Soft 60 seconds High Pitch Wet Towels 2 takes 6, 7
Jon Bouncy Ultra Violent Infra Red Loud 20 seconds Medium Pitch An apple 1 take - bit the mike 10
Julian Sticky Cautious Sub Yellow Very Loud 52 seconds Low Pitch 2 rolls of tape and a bit of foam rubber 1 take 11
Chantal Shakey Energetic Orange Orange Soft 40 Seconds High Pitch Fork, strings and hammers fork attached with tape between the hammers and the strings 16, 17
Paula Cyclic Empahtic Sky Blue Medium 52 seconds High Pitch Spoons accompaniement to a bluegrass backing track - 2 takes 12, 14
Lily Dry Ecstatic Malevich White Medium 52 Seconds High Pitch Piece of Paper (A3) and a Plastic Carrier Bag First take was better (18) 18, 19
Darrick Slippery Slick Granny Smith Green Very Loud 60 Seconds Medium Pitch Gibson Les Paul played acoustically Best at 1m05 20:1m05
Sarah Elastic Lunatic Panther Pink Loud 20 seconds Low Pitch Tap dancing doesn't have to be an elitist passtime shoes pennies taped to the bottom of shoes 21:1m30s
Marie Vicarious Banffic Silent Gold Soft 40 seconds Medium Pitch Chick Cheek Tapping - 22:0m47s
Andrea Viscous Indecisive Brown Sugar Very Soft 20 seconds Medium Pitch Piano last tuned 1976 - track 23

Choral Walk

Please come to the collaboration studio and bring your voice !

=== Cluster Performance

Distribution ReadMe

Cluster

15th November 2006

Cluster is a piece developed for mediascape by Chantal Dumas and Julian Priest with performances by:

Additional programming

Each performer was invited to bring an instrument to the recording studio. Performers chose a Mood and Adjective and a Colour from a set of cards and rolled dice to determine, the pitch, duration and dynamic of their piece.

Cluster can be played in duo, trio, quartet, quintet, and cluster as well, by interacting with other participants.

Description

The sounds and images of each performer are associated with a radio beacon called a pinger carried by each particpant along with a pinger detector and an ipaq with headphones. As another participant approaches a pinger carrier, the sound associated with that participant begins to play along with a short sequence of images of their performance, instrument and directions.

As more pingers come into range their sounds and image sequences are also triggered.

By clustering in different formations, participants can experience different ensembles or mixes of the recordings.

The piece reveals the radio propogation charactersistics of the built environment that the ensemble is moving through.

The ensemble is not dependent on any location, but only on the relative location of the participants - their own radio transmission and reception linking the group.

The piece knows one location - marked by an infrared beacon, that is the recording and choral walk studio. Standing in this room will play the collaborative pieces developed there on the open score.

Description Synopsis

Cluster is a piece developed for mediascape by Chantal Dumas and Julian Priest with performances by:

Michael Heimninder, Darrick Baxter, Jon Cohrs, Elley Jones, Sarah Lazarovic, Paula Levine, Marie-Christiane Mathieu, Lily Shirvanee, Andrea Zeffiro.

Additional programming Elley Jones, Ben Clayton

Each performer was invited to bring an instrument to the recording studio. Performers chose a Mood and Adjective and a Colour from a set of cards and rolled dice to determine, the pitch, duration and dynamic of their piece.

Cluster can be played in duo, trio, quartet, quintet, and cluster as well, by interacting with other participants.

Build Notes

Clusters

each media resource is named as follows

name-resourcetype.extension

each pinger is mapped to a name

each name has 4 media elements

on entering range of a pinger the following should be triggered

on leaving range of a pinger

Choral Walk

2 infrared beacons should be placed at either end of the collaboration space in studio 13 glyde hall.

On entering this room all the individual performance pieces above should be switched off.

The beacons trigger the following sequences.

One triggers:

the other:

both of them trigger the sequence

Contact

Chantal Dumas - chantaldu at yahoo dot com Julian Priest - julian at informal dot org dot uk

http://almostperfect.informal.org.uk/index.php/Cluster

please contact us for licensing information :!

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