thank you for resending,
so georg is working on putting the first draft of the oudeis text into the
net. this is really a rough draft, but I decided to "publish" it because it
is so unfinished, maybe that's exactly what we should do, working on these
first thoughts gernot and I had for the text .
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>an idea:
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>the position of the actor can be defined by the text he is about to say.
>this is simplified by the fact that the stage is 'quantized' to 64 squares.
>a simple example follows:
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>text: 'I don't know what to say, and I'm saying it.'
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I tried to have short sentences in the text but it is soooo hard to skip
some of the words of homer,
so maybe in some cases we will have to much text for that?
>the first letter can determine the 'row' (a-h?). value can be
>'transliterated' by proportion to the number of letters in the alphabet of
>the language of the text (26 in english). letter 'i' is the 9th., so the
>proportion would be 3 (9*8/26=2.769~3), that's row 'c'.
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>the number of words in the text can determine then the 'column' (1-8?).
>this time the module of the number should be used, 'cos there's no 'frame'
>to a proportion. the text in the example has 12 words, so the column would
>be 4.
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>position (for this text) would then be 'c4'
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> 12345678
> a
> b
> c X <--- that's the actor.
> d
> e
> f
> g
> h
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>this position can be just a starting point from which the actos can move
>freely when speaking. other variables (no. of vocals, of letters, of
>consonants) can define other decisions, such as loudness or languaje (but
>for this multilingual actors would be needed).
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that's what I did not get exactly. So the actor does only have an starting
point? And what when there is an dialog? would the actors not run into each
other? (see - lee's mail on oudeis-tech)
what I really like of this idea is that this would probably give us another
ability to stress the importance for homers odyssey for our play. (the
other idea was the screen where the RL audience and the cyberaudience can
read the text we have chosen I admit that this idea is only partly creative ;)
>a drawback: this kind of process leaves little space to improvisation.
>
again, I said this on oudeis-tech as well. Maybe our concept is not good
for improvisation, which does not mean we will take the life out of it but
only very prepared in movements, and with only several movements, which
gives not much space to act spontaneously on the stage / during the
performance.
maybe a drawback, but i would just call this a part of the concept.
PS:
> music is dressed silence
can we use this for net lags?
hugs,
Mon
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