>Sound: some sort audio transfer
(...)
>Ambient sound
>Along with the digitization of the Odysseus, ambient sound of the location
>could be used. This could mean if the next episode is in Chicago maybe
>random phrases in English would be heard, cars and other sounds of the city
>could be heard. Also sounds which have something to do with the Chicago
>episode.
>
>Hardships of the Internet
>As we all know nothing works perfectly. Sound quality and picture quality
>will not be ideal. This is o.k. and can be used. The Odyssey is an ancient
>story so the idea of messages coming from the past could be used. Some come
>through perfectly ... others are garbled. The idea of the text coming from
>memory, coming from someone telling the story (the muse) this could explain
>why stories are fragmented and hazy. I would even suggest a major technical
>glitch to start the show. This would get the audience's attention
>immediately and clear the notion of a high-tech/technically perfect show. IF
>the computers and lights went out or if there were sparks of electricity or
>if somehow the show started slowly like power or electrical current was
>slowly being injected ...this might be effective. ANOTHER RANDOM IDEA: at
>the end of the show all the cameras on all the stages could be turned to the
>audiences. So audiences watch audiences and realize that they have all
>shared the journey ... just a thought.
i think what Dan wrote about video applies to sound. i wrote this on a
previous (27/9) message:
>some more ideas (while reading it): if sound samples are used, they should
>be in low quality fromats (no 44kHz, etc.). that's the way internet sounds
>(nowadays). so picture hearing ancient greek mixed with quasi-invented
>english words (joyce), english, french, german, spanish, all of them
>sounding like "real audio".
>
>music can be made up of this voices + actors (if they speak), + recorded
>sounds (of travelling? boats, sea, train, car, plane...) different
>qualities and effects applied to them, etc.
>The Internet element:
>Each site would have one camera and all sites would video conference. All
>actors playing Odysseus mirror the "active stage" - (the stage which is
>telling its episode). Stage grid would be useful for reference, lighting
>could also be more or less duplicated.
i also thought about a small cart with a TV on it, showing the actor on
another stage performing his part.
>Digitization of Odysseus
>To suggest the traveling of Odysseus from one site to another - Odysseus is
>digitized - meaning scan the face of the actor who plays Odysseus in Vienna.
>This scanned image "morphs" into the image of the face of the actor playing
>Odysseus in Argentina. Then the Argentine stage is active and all the other
>Odysseus mirror the action in Argentina. The scanned images of the actors
>faces could be videotaped ahead of time or put on a website which is put up
>on a monitor. Obviously each Odysseus will be different and depending on the
>episode maybe Odysseus will even be a puppet manipulated by the actor!
good thing.
>Telling the story
>If we use the analogy of memory then images and sound come to mind. Also
>storytelling by the actor or accompanying text on a WWW page? A voice
>narrating and the actor doing the movement?
maybe we could mix narrators: make a recording of the text in each of the
languajes, then on each stage you hear the place's text (german in Wien,
english in Chicago, Spanish in Buenos Ayres, etc.) _mixed_ with the rest of
the languajes. the 'main' languaje would be much louder than the other.
this can bring the 'global' thing to the narration, and provide some useful
confusion.
>SUGGESTED ARTISTIC WORK PLAN
>
>1. Identify the sites - Given that the details are more defined start
>finding the other countries that will participate. Three other stages would
>probably be the easiest. ALSO (you may already have this) find a SPECIALIST
>or PROFESSOR who can serve as a HOMER resource. Someone who knows a lot
>about Homer and the Odyssey would be very useful for the project. Questions
>regarding text and history could be directed to the Specialist. Also the
>Specialist may have ideas on how Episode elements relate to the Internet and
>to the theme of the performance.
i thought they were:
. Wien
. Chicago
. Perth
. Tokio
. Buenos Ayres
. Johanessbourg (?)
i'm getting in contact here with a theatre company ( a very good one)
called 'de la guarda'. as soon as i have any news i'll post a message.
un abrazo,
santiago
mailto:jaco@overnet.com.ar
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/3721/