Real-time composition
In this work, we set up a space for improvisation that is focused on composition. Each participant is making choices based on what the space needs, while keeping an awareness of the outside picture. There is always a space to exit the playing space, to reexamine and make a new choice to enter again.
As a large group, it’s great to assign rolls before beginning and give time to develop ideas.
Roles: players, light, video, sound, visual design
Players: inhabit the space, movement, text
Lighting: units and range of sources
Video: pre-loaded images, real-time camera and projection
Sound: acoustic, electronic, vocal
Visual design: set, props, spatial dimensions
- Make a choice
- Commit to it and go
- Leave when you are done
- Repeat
As a large group, it’s great to assign rolls before beginning and give time to develop ideas.
- Choose a theme
- Break into groups (players, designers, sound, lighting)
- Go away to build ideas
- Come together and improvise
- Call out: pause, reverse, solo, duet, trio, clear the space, etc.
Roles: players, light, video, sound, visual design
Players: inhabit the space, movement, text
- Off space: make a choice and re-enter
- Question: what does the space need?
- Choices: Go with the simple—not always first idea—when out of an idea... leave.
Lighting: units and range of sources
- Make choices about what sources to include
- Move within and outside the working space
- Bring focus/open to change
Video: pre-loaded images, real-time camera and projection
- make choices about images/ light/spatial arrangement
- move within and outside the working space
- bring focus – make change- open to change
Sound: acoustic, electronic, vocal
- Make choices about instrumentation
- Move within and outside the working space
- Bring focus, make change, open to change
Visual design: set, props, spatial dimensions
- Make choices about how the space will be arranged: props, parameters
- Move within and outside the working space
- Bring focus, make change, open to change