Yesterday the 3 Germans met to discuss the state of the project.
Dietrich worked on some very nice video material which consisted basically of a video of dance which was extremely slowed down and (also extremely) stretched either horizontally or vertically, which made for some very nice changing colour planes.
Claudius took a copy of that material to work with Stefan on it during next week.
The first idea was to have him work in a more graphical, contour-orientad way so as to contrast Dietrichs works. He’ll also send a copy to Neil, possibly together with Stefan’s work.
(I’ll see if I find some space on the server here to upload the examples here as well)
We also did some minor corrections to the overall form, like putting a tutti at min. 32-34. We need to decide, if the form as such is OK for everyone. Questions yesterday were e.g. wether it is nice to have 5 times both layers of video simultaneously. Similar considerations must be done soundwise.
Another good idea was to have a video mixer and have Claudius do the mixing and distribution of the different videosignals to the projection planes. This would be a nice thing to do with the sound as well, which lead to the following suggestion:
We considered to have (besides the sax of course) only one generic laptop sound layer plus the one that makes the realtime processing, both done by Neil’s students, while I would do the mixing and some computer controlled spatialisation.
Once we have that fixed, I’ll make a new score in a format which will also incorporating Neil’s suggestions and is open to everyone to put in theirs.
OK, break was long enough for many different reasons, but it would be nice to get going again.
