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UKIYO
(Moveable
World)
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Yiorgos
Bakalos as Flamingo and soldier. (c) DAP-Lab 2009
Cinematic movement character studies by Johannes Birringer
Notes
on the creation of interactive audiophonic and amplificational design
by
Michèle Danjoux, Johannes Birringer, Caroline Wilkins, Oded Ben-Tal
and Paul Verity Smith
with commentaries and discussions from the DAP-Lab ensemble regarding
compositional process and interacticve architecture.
UKIYO: Movement characters:
Cast:
A = Yiorgos 1. Colonel Brazhinksky, doctor and engineer/inventor
with claves / drums and lemons, Maoist suit (Part I)
2. Flamingo with long sleeves turning into tools or weapons or surgical
instruments or antennae (Part I and II)
B= Katsura 1. RedBlackwoman: manga
character with sonic dress red on
black (rustle-mics and Metallica, headphones and wires (Part I)
(Kinaesonic character: has amplificational dress)
2. transformable into second manga character (part II)
Japanese words - drawing language.
C = Helenna 1. Workerwoman with prosthetic arm/ hammer (Part I)
And woman with long hair and red bleeding face
2. Speakerwoman: woman with white hat and rice field stick with speakers
in baskets (amplificatory) and speaker shoes (Part II)
(Kinaesonic character: has amplificational dress/accoutrements)D = Anne
Laure 1. Boatwoman: (manga character) (bird with outcrops on
Back, rowing boat gestures and workbench
2. transformable into second manga character
E = Caroline (Instrumentwoman: musician with bandoneon / bulging object)
Kruchonykha
Part I: instrument extension (crown) of woman
Part II: woman extension of instrument (playing the sampled
Bandoneon sounds with her unfoldable dress
(Kinaesonic character: with amplifications dress)
[H= percussionist] musician with claves, rainforest, cymbals (A. Awraamov
in factory worker outfit
F = Mamen: Madame Favre, Divisionärin/communist military officer
(elegant 40ish woman in uniform, carrying horsewhip, and
plays I-Ching)
G = Olu: Swiss African Kommissär Khlebnikov, party official of
SSR
(elegant 40ish man in uniform), with fine hands, smokes,
remembers childhood language Chichewa, and ancient
drawings in Africa which now are imited by Swiss
Réduit drawings (Réduit is the mountain retreat tunnel
System in the Alps)
For
the development of the choreographic installation and its interactive
images, go to the February 2009 workshop images:
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This
research project is funded by a PM12 Connect/British Council Grant and
a RDF (Brunel University) grant.
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Project
directors: Johannes Birringer & Michèle Danjoux
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