Re: some cyberchoring over here - definition of the choros

Monika Wunderer (wunderer@st1hobel.phl.univie.ac.at)
Mon, 03 Feb 1997 19:09:37 +0100

At 11:47 28.01.97 -0300, you wrote:
>
>remember that in (late?) tragedy the choros represented the people.

great! you are right.

Did you ever read Euripides drama Cyclops? It is interesting because it
uses the choros and it describes the story of odysseus at the island of
polypheme.

>i think _we_ will know they are the ones making the music. what we could do
>is to tell them in an easy way they are doing it. there could be a link to
>a page that explains the concept, etc. (maybe with excerpts from this list)
>

So, the idea Gernot brought up (speaking with his voice again) is that the
cyberaudience (sorry sticking with this word ) has the possibility to draw
during the episodes.
I do not know how this is called, but for example when you play a tune with
a real audio player the player visualizes the tune somehow on your screen.
And you see a black bar going from left to right while playing.
Maybe they can draw this? and the real audience would see during the
episode, that such a notation is drawn in the background (another screen).
then - during the episodes - all audience members would see the bar going
from left to right exactly at the drawing they saw established before.

question is how can the cyberaudience draw on this? via rhythm? tapping on
their mouse, via a certain quantity of clicking? via choosing some color?

Than the cyberaudience will see / hear what they have produced.

More Quantity may cause aggressive sounds and Loudness and more silence
would produce a more lovely tune, that's what they will learn during the
performance.

just a thought

>internet users are used to delays in their needs. we could tell them which
>sound they have produced, and even let them hear _that_ sound alone (by
>going to another page). i don't think this would be difficult (have you
>noticed all the things they do in perseus with your 'interaction'?), and
>would give the user the posibility to _know_ what he's doing.

what exactly is the interaction the persus project includes? Maybe you
could describe to us.

At 17:41 01.02.97 +-100, Boris Karnikowski wrote:
> a mixture of sea sounds and Netnoise (produced by the Cyberaudience which
will hear the sound produced, but see no pictures - I am thinking of a mix
of sea gull cries and the aforementioned modem crys or something of that
kind) during switch-overs to the next scene/stage and during possible
problems of any kind, i.e. Netlags/-splits ... this could - apart from
making it visible - make for a dramaturgical representation of the Net as
the other protagonist in the performance (and prevent the risk of
embarassment when problems occur). While two or three monitors (or one
video beamer?) should suffice to give a visual impression, the sound itself
should give an impression of vastness and - depending on the context -
threat. I could think of a rage of sounds from quiet ocean to stirred sea.

Santiago, will we inclued Netsounds as well? You once said that is to much
I think and I leave this all to you , it would just be a possibility to
underline the methaphor.

hope I have not been to unclear,
tired,
Mon

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