a new idea regarding the language :
what about
*the ongoing on the stage (dialogs between Odysseus and whoever) ---
multilingual (as suggested)
*the gods (i.e.: the technicians + one narrator) --- english
*the audience / cyberchor --- ??? music, sound of the internet ...
That brings us to a three part project. Maybe we can discuss every part
seperately.
The idea of the gods would on the one hand show our "power", or the power of
the net - as said before, we are the fate/gods of this project and the
internet is the fate of the function of the performance.
On the other hand this would help us to introduce a narrator / a chor
leader. He could tell the story in an abbreviate form. We thought of
English, because this is the most common used language of the net. And we
thought of a narrator on every stage, and without transmission of the words
he is speaking. The only thing is we would know that all 5 narrators are
speaking the same text at the same time. The job of the technicians / stage
managers would be to time these speeches (maybe via a MOO) in a synchron way.
After the speech of the narrator would either follow the audience or the
next scene. And in the scene the audio is transported as Santiago has suggested.
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