cycle 2
Posted: November 19, 2024 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a comment »For cycle 2, I played with some ideas for projecting behind my live performance. I made a few different patches with the goal that it could be projected on a large scale in the motion lab as an accompanying piece to my live performance
For the live performance, I have decided to have the projection of my dad’s face with the cut-out eyes fading in and out of opacity. I think that this addition could add to the visual confusion and legibility, and could potentially make the audience feel confusion as to what they were watching.
Because the performance is based around slow movement, there is a lot of subtlety to the piece. I want my movements to feel deliberate and have a score to them, so I will be doing some movement practices to work with that. Alisha gave me the feedback that it might be interesting to explore facial movements as the image that is projected is very placid. This idea terrifies me! I like it.
I also added a sound element to accompany the performance. I used an app called “Hear My Heart” that essentially is a very sensitive mic. The mic picks up your heart beat, but it also has a lot of wooshing. The feedback that I received was that the sound was difficult to decipher as being an actual heart, so I want to experiment with a stronger mic; one that doesn’t have as much interference. It was also unpleasant to have to hold my phone’s mic during the performance.
The patches that I designed on Isadora ultimately feel like they’re from a different world than the performance. I took a very close video of my eye blinking on the same beat as the stop-motion video/the live performance. The initial patches were mirrored and distorted to make the eye feel sort of terrifying, which doesn’t feel like it fits with the emotional feel of the performance. In class, we stripped away the effects and the video was then just an eye blinking. I will for the next cycle re-record this clip and try projecting it behind me.
