[dance-tech] Re: Sensordance/ improvised / computational / conceptual

Johannes

long and convoluted though they are (and thus we might not always have time to read and respond as they come in) these debates are interesting and important [I have them all saved on a document to peruse at my leisure (if I ever get any!!)] insamuch as they reveal the kind/s of thinking that lie behind the work we do. We all approach our work and our thinking from different (sometimes very different) places (ref. the (Jaimie/Matt discussion). It is interesting to be reminded of the different thinking styles and different philosophical positions we make our comments from ... so don't stop - there are people out there listening

Sarah


On 15 Oct 2006, at 22:30, Johannes Birringer wrote:

hello all:
very interesting responses (Jaime), thanks.

Perhaps our debates have been long/convoluted, so I suggest to take out just one aspect, perhaps we get more involvement from the community at large.





To me there is a fundamental feedback between the development of the system and the experimentation via
improvisation, and how this experimentation sediments in an eventual choreography, or even a choreographic language, as well as how it sediments
into a more articulate form of the system/software/hardware. .....

(THERE IS NO MORE CHOREOGRAPHY, IN THE CONTEXT WE ARE DISCUSSING)

If we want to explore this potential in depth I assume that the construction
of the instrument is essential in the process, and I remind you of the fact
that I consider the intrument to be not just the software and hardware, but
also the dancer's body, the space he/she moves in etc. It is more about the
feedback between different aspects of the instrument (again avoiding our old
dichotomy between dance and technology) and see it as aspects of the same
process, only then I assume can we discover in depth media specific
languages, even disciplines of dance and the body (and therefore new kind of
content).

(YES, I WOULD LIKE TO DISCUSS THE 'INSTRUMENT" and HOW FAR YOU EXTEND THIS CONCEPT OR IDEA. INCLUDING THE PHYSICAL BODY/NERVOUS SYSTEM, THE SPACE, THE AUGMENTED REALITY/RESPONSIVE ARCHITECTURE, THE GARMENT/WEARABLE, THE SOFTWARE, THE HARDWARE ?
BUT NONE OF THESE ARE MEDIA SPECIFIC AND CLEARLY CATEGORIZABLE, AND THE RELATION BETWEEN WEARING BODY AND VIDEO IS NOT THE SAME, NECESSARILY, AS BETWEEN PIANO PLAYER AND KEYBOARD (if you follow the musical association if 'instrument'). What exactly is an interface instrument, and can one choreograph with it?


Johannes Birringer
London




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