Tuesday, December 14, 2010
DOCUMENTATION
The final sketch couldn't be uploaded [video file was too big and Filezilla kept giving me error messages - could be the free webhosting]. It is on the desktop of the computer in our classroom.
some test sketches:
[this one takes a while to start...]
Friday, December 3, 2010
Channels/Inserts by Emily Martin
Much of my work up to this point has aimed to question the aesthetic value of the letterform and the boundary between the meaning/message of text and its pure shape. Further, the relationship between text and dance: choreography as language – a system ascribing meaning to bodies in motion.
I’ve made some pieces in Flash, and want to expand on their conceptual foundation through Processing. In the past I’ve used a video of a ballet performance, superimposing rapidly flashing blocks of text – too fast to be read, reduced to pure shape – thus obscuring the language of the choreography with screens of text: neither language can thus be understood.
Through Processing, I want to explore the conceptual choreography of Merce Cunningham and explore the relationship between his processes and the written form of language.
Cunningham was a truly revolutionary choreographer. Two of his practices that I will be working with are chance operations [creating a series of choreographed phrases and then arranging them spontaneously and randomly for performance] and a disconnect from music [he often choreographed a piece and chose music afterwards, or didn’t let his dancers listen to the music until the performance].
Again I want to create flashing screens of text obscuring footage of Cunningham’s dancers, but instead of a contextualized repeating pattern of word flow, I want to select blocks of text randomly from a defined set, thus recontextualizing the text, while keeping it illegible. Further, I want to challenge the disconnect between Cunningham’s choreography and music. I want the flashing of the text, and its size, to be determined by the music [in the footage itself], through the beat detection code we’ve talked about.
The major technical things I’ll have to figure out: displaying video, displaying text on top of the video, randomly selecting pieces of text [probably from an array?], and using beat detection to determine movement and size of the text.
I think the biggest risk in this project is that I have a very distinct vision of what I want the final product to look like, and I know that it is very unlikely that I will see these exact results; I plan to experiment along the way!
Task list:
1. Get video into Processing file – get it to play properly – loop [?]
2. Create array of fragments of text that can be selected randomly – get these to display properly
3. Put sound file in Processing file – make sure it can play – loop [?]
4. Use beat detection to change the display of the text objects
Risk areas:
[see task list]
I actually just decided on this project, after a series of wishy-washy failed attempts at other things, so I don’t have any explanatory media pieces or proofs of concept yet – but I will soon! However, here are a couple of links to some past work so that you can see where I’m coming from.
Convergence I
Convergence IV
I’ve made some pieces in Flash, and want to expand on their conceptual foundation through Processing. In the past I’ve used a video of a ballet performance, superimposing rapidly flashing blocks of text – too fast to be read, reduced to pure shape – thus obscuring the language of the choreography with screens of text: neither language can thus be understood.
Through Processing, I want to explore the conceptual choreography of Merce Cunningham and explore the relationship between his processes and the written form of language.
Cunningham was a truly revolutionary choreographer. Two of his practices that I will be working with are chance operations [creating a series of choreographed phrases and then arranging them spontaneously and randomly for performance] and a disconnect from music [he often choreographed a piece and chose music afterwards, or didn’t let his dancers listen to the music until the performance].
Again I want to create flashing screens of text obscuring footage of Cunningham’s dancers, but instead of a contextualized repeating pattern of word flow, I want to select blocks of text randomly from a defined set, thus recontextualizing the text, while keeping it illegible. Further, I want to challenge the disconnect between Cunningham’s choreography and music. I want the flashing of the text, and its size, to be determined by the music [in the footage itself], through the beat detection code we’ve talked about.
The major technical things I’ll have to figure out: displaying video, displaying text on top of the video, randomly selecting pieces of text [probably from an array?], and using beat detection to determine movement and size of the text.
I think the biggest risk in this project is that I have a very distinct vision of what I want the final product to look like, and I know that it is very unlikely that I will see these exact results; I plan to experiment along the way!
Task list:
1. Get video into Processing file – get it to play properly – loop [?]
2. Create array of fragments of text that can be selected randomly – get these to display properly
3. Put sound file in Processing file – make sure it can play – loop [?]
4. Use beat detection to change the display of the text objects
Risk areas:
[see task list]
I actually just decided on this project, after a series of wishy-washy failed attempts at other things, so I don’t have any explanatory media pieces or proofs of concept yet – but I will soon! However, here are a couple of links to some past work so that you can see where I’m coming from.
Convergence I
Convergence IV
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