Re: ars catalogue 2

santiago pereson (jaco@overnet.com.ar)
Wed, 28 May 1997 12:21:48 -0300

At 20:55 -0700 24/5/97, Jim Terral wrote:
>Monika Wunderer wrote:
>
>> The use of our chorus to provide the cyberaudience a possibility of being
>> present
>> Monika Wunderer, dramaturge, Vienna
>>
>> the second idea which came (please hands up who exactly invented this??)
>> was to let the people who attend via the Internet be the chorus.
>> Monika Wunderer, dramaturge, Vienna
>>
>
>That was me. [:puts his hand up and smiles sheepishly.] See December 18
>reply to msg on Web Design (and I don't mean monosodium glutamate).

hope you don't mind my messing with this, but the choros' idea was part of
the project before the mailing lists begun:

>Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 17:50:21 +0200 (MET DST)
>From: Monika Wunderer <wunderer@st1hobel.phl.univie.ac.at>
...
>Some of the ideas we have till now are:
>
>* Odysseus as the only actor how is "wandering around on all
>different stages" That means Odysseus would be always a real person
>on that stage that is placed on the station of the journey - on the
>other stages he would just be light.
>
>* Furthermore we probably will have to reduce the use of the text and
>we thought of concentrate on the phrases that are repeted (one
>characteristic of former oral poetry)
>
>* it would also be nice to include some kind of chorus into the
> performance of the play

Further development was made by Mon, Gernot (when he came to Buenos Ayres)
and me. the final idea is mainly mine (the process by which clicks get
transformed into sounds, the way each 'song' is used as an instrument, the
choice of texts, etc)

best,

santiago

music is dressed silence

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