{"id":5729,"date":"2017-04-11T17:08:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-11T17:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/?p=5729"},"modified":"2019-12-03T04:53:15","modified_gmt":"2019-12-03T04:53:15","slug":"systems-aesthetics-conference-project-description","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/r6g.ad7.mwp.accessdomain.com\/?p=5729","title":{"rendered":"Blackspace: Text + Movement"},"content":{"rendered":"

 <\/p>\n

\"DSC_0041\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

This was a text, video, and sound piece that uses the ArrayList function to call up individual words from a song’s lyrics at random as the song plays, creating a counterpoint to the song, the intended meaning of the song, and hopefully producing surprising new meanings for the viewer\/listener. The initial song I used was Somethin’ Stupid by Frank Sinatra, which accompanied a video of my Dad dancing in Twyla Tharp’s piece Nine Sinatra Songs, which uses, of course, nine Sinatra songs for nine duets. I hoped that the dancing would emphasize the sort of contrapuntal “dance” going on between the text and the lyrics.<\/p>\n

To push this piece forward I hope to experiment with using different music and video and to make it much more self-evolving. At the moment, it is only “self-evolving” in the sense that the random progression of text, in concert with the predictable progression of the song (in the sense that it is pre-recorded), produces a sort of self-evolving meaning for the viewer\/listener. However I hope to play with the text and image themselves in order to make their evolution and response to one another much more explicit. I might play with pixel glitching, now that we know how to do that. I also hope to incorporate the text into the image in a variety of different ways. I actually like the white box separated from the video, but I think there are a whole lot of other ways this could go. Callum’s idea of actually having the text in a subtitle format is great. I could even try to do a sort of sing-a-long follow the bouncing dot animation. I think that could be wonderfully confusing. Lastly, if I can manage this, I’d be interested in having a sort of ArrayList of videos with their own associate lyrics to call up at random or with some evolving ruleset. This would allow for cross-polination of text,video,sound and I think could lead to some crazy jump-cutting.<\/p>\n

Ultimately, I think I have a strong little sketch to work with here and I’m excited about the directions I’m envisioning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  This was a text, video, and sound piece that uses the ArrayList function to call up individual words from a song’s lyrics at random as the song plays, creating a counterpoint to the song, the intended meaning of the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":12185,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[264,335],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-systems-aesthetics","category-blackspace-2","wpcat-264-id","wpcat-335-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/r6g.ad7.mwp.accessdomain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/r6g.ad7.mwp.accessdomain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/r6g.ad7.mwp.accessdomain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/r6g.ad7.mwp.accessdomain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/r6g.ad7.mwp.accessdomain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5729"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/r6g.ad7.mwp.accessdomain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12186,"href":"https:\/\/r6g.ad7.mwp.accessdomain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5729\/revisions\/12186"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/r6g.ad7.mwp.accessdomain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/r6g.ad7.mwp.accessdomain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/r6g.ad7.mwp.accessdomain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/r6g.ad7.mwp.accessdomain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}