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sounds
This might be of interest: http://www.mobygratis.com
reminder re lighting
Just a reminder regarding this coming Thursday’s session with Mike Toon. Mike will spend about 10 minutes with each pair to discuss your ideas and plans for lighting and design in the theatre. Please come prepared with ideas, questions and perhaps even a possible cue sheet.
talent
Use your talents, whatever they may be. Your work doesn’t have to be better than everyone else’s; it just needs to be yours.
final task
Hi all – this is an outline of your final project:
I would like you to choreograph a project/work that investigates/challenges/works with the ideas and practices you have begun to grapple with during this module. We’ve talked a lot about risk, adventure, play, testing and experimentation. We’ve also worked with creating complex movement, and really pushing the dynamic possibilities of the dancing. You’ve considered light, and you’ve begun thinking about sound. You might also like to build some constraints for yourselves to help give something to ‘push against’.
I’m very much looking forward to supporting you in making these works.
an experiment
The term ‘experience’ is crucial: for too long spectators have been
equated with readers as decipherers of meaning. … The traditional
task of ‘making sense’ is then replaced by unique experiences, which
are both cognitive operations and forms of emotion. The word
‘experience’ derives etymologically from the French ‘to put to the
test’. Experience is an experiment.
– David George (1996: 23) – cited in Robin Nelson ‘Modes of
Practice-as-Research Knowledge and their place in the Academy’, 2010:
122
creating and editing sound online
taste
I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.
– Marcel Duchamp
creativity
Jeanette Winterson on how art ‘works’
When you take time to read a book or listen to music or look at a picture, the first thing you are doing is turning your attention inwards. The outside world, with all of its demands, has to wait. As you withdraw your energy from the world, the artwork begins to reach you with energies of its own. The creativity and concentration put into the making of the artwork begin to cross-current into you. This is not simply about being recharged, as in a good night’s sleep or a holiday, it is about being charged at a completely different voltage.
– Jeanette Winterson
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2002/nov/25/art.artsfeatures1
Read the entire article – it’s very worth it.