Cycle 3 “”lighting dance challenge”
Posted: December 13, 2019 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a comment »
In the last performance, I changed a lot to play with the actor “OpenNI”. It helped me really design the various simple movements which can be recognized by the connector while showing a great “dance composition” on the stage. Another thing is, with the help of the actor “OSC Multi Transmit”, I have the chance to connect the data of human body directly to the data of lighting intensity/color. With out only trigger the cues I made in to lighting board, it bring up more possibilities of the idea of having audience member control single light directly.
So I finally made the structure for my final:
Introduction part:
People: myself
Position: Red Spot
Movement: Rise/put down arms (allow various speed).
Isadora: connector see the arms position data, connect to the lighting intensity.
Audience Participate Part:
People: three audience members
Position: stand on “red spot”, “yellow spot” and “blue spot” individually
Movement: red: rise/put down arms (with certain tempo I gave).
yellow: kneel down and stand up (with certain tempo I gave).
Blue: jump into certain area and leave (with certain tempo I gave).
Isadora: red: arms position data
yellow: torso position data
blue: body brightness data
When all the audience members all doing the right movement with the right tempo on stage, they can successfully trigger the lights at different tempo to create a dance piece with all various movement and lighting changes. If they all doing right, I will go in front of the connect sensor 2 to add the intensity so that it will trigger a strobing lights with the sudden silence. It seems something wrong, but after 5 seconds, a automatically lighting dance will be triggered which means everyone did a good job and it is the symbol of the success.
However, in the final show, the connector didn’t work that well which did not fully showed my design. But the introduction part went really well.
Thank you Alex and Oded really helped me go through every technology problem and artistic problems I had. This project kept changing until the end and without everyone’s help, i cannot really finish this! And really a great course!