Advanced Performance training: O b j e c t S c o r e N o t a t i o n
Tijdens het eerste trimester van 2008 nam Constant deel aan de
ontwikkeling van het programma van APT (Advanced Performance Training), een postgraduaat verbonden aan de Posthogeschool voor Podiumkunsten in DeSingel, Antwerpen.
Als onderdeel van dit programma, nodigde Constant de studenten en andere geïnteresseerden uit voor een reeks workshops rond notatiesystemen, schrijven en herschrijven, in aanwezigheid van Kirsty Stansfield en Simon Yuill.
(De werktaal was Engels, vandaar dat de rest van dit artikel in het Engels is).
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Artists : Kirsty Stansfield and Simon Yuill
Participants : maximum of 12
Contribution to the costs : 20 euro
Registration : by e-mail to apt@popok.be
No prior knowledge required
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WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION
Goals and targets:
– exploring the relationship between software and performance notation
– creating notation from everyday objects, gestures and movements
– exploring the physical space as a notational canvas
– questioning collective authorship, versioning
Approach:
The workshop will be based around a piece of software that tracks
movements via video camera. This translates movement into a form of
notation that can be used to construct audio scores, or, which can
feedback into the performance and notation system itself (i.e. creating
commands for other performers). The workshop will be based in a space with simple objects and furniture that the participants can use as their
notational ’canvas’. They will be able to construct a notation system from
their own movements and their interactions with the objects in the space.
From this they will create a series of ’object scores’. Participants will
work collectively in creating and altering these ’object scores’ following
a FLOSS paradigm of writing and re-writing each other’s contributions.
This will create a tight feedback loop between writing and performing -
the motions of performance become recorded as notations in the scores.
These scores then generate the possibilities for further performances
which re-write the previous notations.
SCHEDULE WORKSHOP:
Day 1 | 11.02 – getting familiar with software, beginning to translate
notations into furniture and software
Day 2 > 4 | 12 > 14.02 – developing ’object score’ performances with
the software and space
Day 5 | 15.02 - final performance and evaluation session
NOTE:
Preliminary sessions:
APT, deSingel Antwerp (7th Floor)
– Thursday 07.02 – introductory presentations on performance notations
looking at the work of the Scratch Orchestra, Anthony Braxton etc.
Live broadcast of the presentation at www.constantvzw.com/vj11/live
– Friday 08.02 – practical notation exercise base don a film screening
using pencil and paper
Workshop hosts
Simon Yuill is an artist and programmer based in Glasgow, Scotland. He is
a developer in the spring_alpha and Social Versioning System (SVS)
projects. He has helped setup and run a number of hacklab and free media labs in Scotland including the Chateau Institute of Technology (ChIT) and Electron Club, as well as the Glasgow branch of OpenLab.
Kirsty Stansfield is an artist currently undertaking a practice-based PhD
entitled, "Sound As Interface - A Performative Genotype" at the University
of Dundee. Her interactive sound installations and sculptures provide
situations and props in which sound mediates peoples’ relationships to
each other and to their physical environment.
Organized by
APT (Advanced Performance Training) is a post-graduate 12 month
performance research program, developed out of the individual projects of the participants, and based on the principles of self-education and
collaboration.
APT (Advanced Performance Training) is part of
PoPoK, Posthogeschool voor Podiumkunsten vzw
p/a deSingel Internationale Kunstcampus
J. Van Rijswijcklaan 155, 2018 Antwerpen (B)
T: +32 3 242 89 60
e-mail: apt@popok.be
A collaboration with Constant vzw & les Bains
@ Brussels, Les Bains
Brussel