Dominoes

I am facing the design question of how to indicate to the audience the “rules” of “using” the “design” i.e. how to set up a system of experiencing the media, i.e. how to get them to do what I want them to do, i.e. how to create a setting in which my audience makes independent discoveries. Because I am interested in my audience creating audio as an input that generates an “interesting” (okay okay, I’m done with the quotation marks starting… “now”)  experience, I jotted down a brainstorm of methods of getting them to make sounds and to touch preceding my work this week.

We use “triggers” in our Isadora actors, which is a useful term for considering the audience: how do I trigger to the audience to do a certain action that consequently triggers my camera vision or audio capture to receive that information and trigger an output that thus triggers within the audience a certain response?

Voice “from above”

• instructions
• greeting
  • hello
• follow along – movement karoaoke
  • video of movement
    • → what trigger?
    • learn a popular movement dance?
      • dougie, electric slide, salsa
        • markings on floor?
• follow along touch someone in the room
  • switch to kinect – Lexi’s patch as basis to build if kinesphere is bigger then creates output
    • what?
    • every time people touch for sustained length is creates
      • audio? crash?
      • lights?
    • how does this affect how people touch each other
    • what needs to happen before they touch each other so that they do it
• follow along karaoke
  • sing without the background sound
    • Maybe with just the lead-in bars they will start singing even without music behind