Dietrich’s video is really beautiful. The video trails, extreme slowdown and stretching work very very well.
I look forward to seeing a short test of Claudiu’s elaborations.
Regarding form, where can I find the latest outline. I suggest that we leave time/flexiblilty to fine-tune the form as rehearsals. Good?
I just did a 45 minute sax/electronic sound/video/dance piece in Napoli. After one run through we had a very good idea of how to fine-tune and succeeded in making a very good piece in about 3 days.
I also just completed a 10 hour sound installation in Italy with the same students from Berklee that will join us in Germany. I suggest that we get them involved as sound designers. I can upload sax samples for all (I know that I am past due on uploading more!) and we can come with some pre-prepared material to process even further live. We can also select which parts of this are actually going to work once we get together. So in short, I suggest that the Boston gang prepare about 60 minutes of processed sax sound as raw material to match the video material that you are working on. Sound good?
Basically, I would like to make sure that the Boston folks have some input regarding the generation of electronic sound and this might be a useful way. Any suggestions?
Regarding sax material, I can now bounce about 45 minutes of solo sax tracks from my Timaeus CD to .aif files (44khz, 16 bit). I can then post several large files to the Berklee server for us to play with. I think that I could do this tomorrow.
In any event, I look forward to the final preproduction stages. I am quite available for the next two weeks, so lets keep the ideas flowing.
Best, Neil
