19/8/20 — Wednesday group critique
Andrew:
- The typeset code poem is referencing William Blake — 18th Century English poet/painter/printmaker. Religious/mystical tones and themes.
- Voice experiment — evocative of witches from Macbeth, peripheral power and omniscient knowing. Taps into the historical knowledge of the witch as a speaker.
- Navigate the poetry through archetypes/characters e.g. looking at the major arcana and picking 3 "voices" to explore and represent a different facet of this (your) intersection.
- Also consider my voice(?) / the voice of the narrator, in the theatre space but also in the commenting and setup of the code
- Github is good because it allows you to update and see results pretty quickly.
- Not knowing the conventions of web design is probably good, has a retro feel before we settled into this idea of what a website is now. \
- Sound — more interesting to play with the sound library in p5, rather than editing them together in audacity — the code/performers as live mixers, another generative process.
Adrian:
- Would be interesting to play with the musicality more... draw upon mystical figures and knowledge — three muses from greek mythology, the three faced goddess in druidic stories / triple deities across many cultures. How might I add cyborg elements through sound, and the layering of it?
- With poems/content, think about bringing characters into direct the narrative and interaction.
Navira:
- Content: the intersection of incantation-cyborg-magic is coming through, but play with the metaphors and word choice more. Complexify!
CRITIQUE of CRITIQUE
- It was really cool doing the experiment, especially the effect that sound-based work can have, but I'm not sure if I want to kind of basically do sound design?
- Having characters in mind to weave together the poetry/intersectionality/an overarching narrative makes a lot of sense, I'd be keen to start on that especially as everything feels really piecey at the moment. Would also help me lot at the poetry/approach from a perspective that is less determined by what I think is good/bad, therefore hopefully less pressure and I can actually make good progress with it.
- I think it's worth exploring p5 sound more to figure out what's possible, also I will need to troubleshoot even just this current experiment to get it to work fully.
ACTION LIST
- Look at — research — potential archetypes
- Do a deep dive into p5 sound
- Don't forget about documentation, do those exercises and look for precedents.
- Map out experience, have outline for Wednesday.
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