[arg_discuss] What if ARGs had a real festival?

[Christopher Amherst]

I could see integrating the concept of the silent dancehall with
various styles of collaboration.

(If I remember there are LED dance floors that respond to the movement
of people.)

DJs could be coded to a specific orchestra "section", dance steps on
an interactive floor could translate movement into
notes and one could get feedback by some visual display (with the
collective visuals feed into a less silent dancehall)

(You could also skip the DJs and let the dancers hear their collective "sound")



On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 6:56 PM, Brooke Thompson<brooke at giantmice.com> wrote:

> That's really cool!

>

> I have this utter fascination with collaborative music. I have never been

> able to figure out why because I don't have a musical bone in my body. Yet,

> when I'm bored or when I need to force my brain to work on something else -

> I almost always default to brainstorming various musical sorts of things.

>

> For example, one idea from back in the grad school days (which would be so

> much easier now with iphones and whatnots) is using a cellphone to log into

> a system that would let you choose an instrument and dancer and, then, join

> a symphony that plays out on a big projection. You use the number pad to

> play music and your little dancer dances to the beat and rhythm of the music

> you're playing on your phone. As you play higher notes, maybe it goes to the

> right of the big screen. As you play more rapidly, maybe it goes higher.

> Whatever.  As long as you're playing he's dancing and moving to the beat and

> sound. But your dancer isn't the only dancer there. Everyone else that's

> logged in also has a dancer on the screen. The music that you are making is

> projected to the audience . Now, what does that sound like? Will people fall

> into a beat with each other? Will they be able to make music or will it just

> be this strange cacophony?

>

> There's something that fascinates me about that idea from a public and

> collaborative play perspective. I've got less noisy headache making ideas,

> though, too. Most tend to revolve around the visuals that accompany the

> sound. Some also bring in tactile objects - some aren't very practical (like

> beach balls that as they're passed around an audience change the visuals

> based on the where the ball was hit - the color and width of the color. I'd

> imagine the lifespan of those would be about a minute and a half. still

> cool, though, for that minute and a half).

>

> Few, however, are as simple as a silent dance party.

>

>

>

> On Sep 3, 2009, at 5:12 PM, Christopher Amherst wrote:

>>

>> If I recall, IO9 had an article on "Hacking at Random 2009", which

>> discussed a silent dancehall

>> where all the dancers had headphones

>>

>> (Article at:

>> http://io9.com/5339096/live-as-if-you-are-already-in-the-future-at-hacker-camp/gallery/

>> )

>>

>> Think we all could do one better?

>>

>> Chris

>

>

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