Title:
Object/Gesture Improvisation
Resources: three people,
10 objects, table and chairs
Intent: To investigate the
use of a visual score that is created out of a database of ten gestural or
spoken actions associated with ten objects and selected by human choice.
Description/Instruction: Three
people sit at a table together. One person is the gestural responder and the
other two are the object placers. Every object represents a visual cue to
perform a specific gesture or spoken text associated with it. The object placers
add and remove objects to the blue box outline on the tabletop as the gestural
responder interprets the score created by these objects.
Assessment: I had Skyped
with Mark on this morning and we decided to return to an early inspiration for our
new piece: the dinner party. So it was apropos that I was going to a friends
for dinner that evening. I chose table objects and made up my gesture/verbal
response when I got there. The whole thing became very funny pretty quickly. I
never intend to make comedy but it might be unavoidable in this research. I was
reading the objects left to right inside the box but I did not have a clear
enough way to read them top to bottom. As the improv went on I got better at
combing gestures when objects were “stacked” top to bottom or literally on top
of each other. Again, the humans did things I could not have predicted. Shannon
really got into composing near the end. John forgot that there were even any
rules. At this point I am only gathering raw information from these improvs. At
some soon time I will combine them into a more structured event.
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