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From: hicksm@spock (Michael Hicks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,alt.emusic,comp.music,rec.music.synth,alt.cyberpunk
Subject: Performance Art Project
Message-ID: <1211@amethyst.math.arizona.edu>
Date: 27 Nov 89 21:14:48 GMT
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Reply-To: hicksm@spock (Michael Hicks)
Organization: Computer Aided Engineering Lab,   U of A,  Tucson, AZ
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Hello.   My name is Michael Hicks and I and others are preparing a performance 
art piece to be presented to the general public of Tucson Arizona.  Even though
the project itself is not quite completely defined at this point we have re-
served the band shell in the park for next july and later this week are
scheduled to meet with the Director of Arts for this town's park department
to discuss our plans and the possibility for public funding.


I have had very little experience in putting together projects like this so I
would like to describe what we have in mind and ask for comments and any sug-
gestions and ideas.


We intend this to be an multi-media piece of computer graphics and music with
a high degree of audience interaction (both passive and active).  We intend
to use an AMIGA 500 as our main computer.  I don't own a computer at the moment
but might by a cheap XT clone (I'm on a shoestring budget) and use it as the
MIDI controller.   Other hardware should come in as we assemble a work group.


We would like to come up with inovative but simple ways to interface ourselves
and the audience to the process of creating .   It's fundementally important
to us that we entertain our audience.   The performance will be divided into
many sections which individuals will have reposibility to develope and also
should include sections of live performance.  We thought this would be a good
way to divide the work up so that the indivduals involved would have thier own
room for personnal expression but the final decision on weither or not it
shall be included in the performance shall remain with the working group as a
whole.


Though personnally I enjoy things with a slight twist to the and that make me
think (Eno and Anderson are good examples) we in no way want this to become
an excercise in intellectual hobnob.   We want everyone to get something out
of this.   Even those with no real exposure to performance art,  electronic
music,  computer graphics,  or anything with an advant-garde bent.


I have kept things a bit schetchy is this notice in part because it is schetchy
right now but also because I do not wish to color your comments and suggestions
which I hope you will find time to send us.


	In particular we would like input on:

		-Anyone's past experience with similar projects

		-Ideas on interfacing techniques

		-Ideas on hardware and software for both the
		 graphics and the music aspects




I invite you to respond.

		
				Yours sincerely

				  Michael Hicks


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