This videowall was created for Leon Johnson's BLUE HAMMER trans-historical dinner theatre project. It is a web-based (or dvd based) experience which is essentially a placeholder for live performers, wearing black garbage bag tops, dark glasses, and sneakers/jeans (not shown). The performers follow pitch-tracks played on their iPods, resulting in a lovely pitch-cluster vocal ambience, with intermittent whoops.
Bargsten has used the technique of live ensembles following tape/cd/mp3 instructions to create music and theatre since 1983. His landmark 2005 opera Anatomy of Melancholy ™ (http://www.badmindtime.com/opera) was the first opera to use iPods to transmit the score to performers.
Additional links - - More information on the BLUE HAMMER project: http://www.leonjohnson.org/projects/bluehammer.html Download entire video wall, vocal parts, and musical score: http://www.archive.org/details/BlueHammer-VideoWall
Full Description
This videowall was created for Leon Johnson's BLUE HAMMER trans-historical dinner theatre project. It is a web-based (or dvd based) experience which is essentially a placeholder for live performers, wearing black garbage bag tops, dark glasses, and sneakers/jeans (not shown). The performers follow pitch-tracks played on their iPods, resulting in a lovely pitch-cluster vocal ambience, with intermittent whoops.
Bargsten has used the technique of live ensembles following tape/cd/mp3 instructions to create music and theatre since 1983. His landmark 2005 opera Anatomy of Melancholy ™ (http://www.badmindtime.com/opera) was the first opera to use iPods to transmit the score to performers.
Additional links - - More information on the BLUE HAMMER project: http://www.leonjohnson.org/projects/bluehammer.html Download entire video wall, vocal parts, and musical score: http://www.archive.org/details/BlueHammer-VideoWall
Work metadata
- Year Created: 2009
- Submitted to ArtBase: Sunday Oct 11th, 2009
- Original Url: http://badmindtime.nfshost.com/videowall/
- Permalink: http://badmindtime.nfshost.com/videowall/
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Work Credits:
- Joey Bargsten, creator
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