HERE   I COME AGAIN

 (FLYING   BIRDMAN)

 November 25

Adapt: Monday   Night Live – 6 pm EST

a telematic earthwork   linking 7 remote sites/non-sites

Quicktime   6 (URL): rtsp://128.146.187.3/osu

More background on the performance script: 

Reflections on the   „Flying Birdman“ multi-site telematic earthwork:  

OSU Birdman Team in pre-productions

Marlon Barrios-Solano, Eric Camper, Jean Haluska, So-Yeon Park, Amita Nijhawan, Ed Luna,Lali Krotoszynski (guest, Sao Paulo, Brazil), Kelly Gottesman, Ran Berdichesky, Sylvana Christopher

directed by Johannes Birringer

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Performance script for ADAPT       / Monday Night Live, Monday,       Nov. 25 – public online performance, 6:oo pm EST

Participating Performance-Teams:

OSU: Johannes Birringer, Mike Kaylor, Ashley Friend, Hyunjung Chae, Michelle Stortz, Maartje Janssen, Karen Soto, John Jay, Ching-Fang J Chiang,

UU: Ellen Bromberg, Jimmy Miklavcic, Brian Buck, Joe Breen, Julio Facelli, Juan Adalpe, Michiru Onizuka-Kempen, Mia Provenzano, Jersey Reo Riemo.

ASU: John D. Mitchell, James Casey, Casey Blake, Meredith Koloski, Apryl  Seech, Siew Wong.

UW: Gray Taylor Miller, Chris Dowling, Christine Olson, Alison Rootberg, Mary Moran,Emily Plotkin.

UNB/ Corpos Informáticos Research Group: Maria Beatriz de Medeiros, Carla Rocha, Viviane Barros, Cyntia Carla, Cila MacDowell, Maria Luiza Fragoso, Renato Cohen (Sao Paulo)

WSU: Kelly Gottesman; Laura Geldys, Kamilah Davis, Anh Nguyen, Joel Sunman, Bill Meyers,  Gary Cendrowski, Michelle Gottesman

Streaming Configurations in the sites (transmitting / receiving)

(Studio Designs have to be coordinated) : OSU studio redesign / WSU   studio (to match cameras and transmissions)

 http://www.dance.osu.edu/~jbirringer/Dance_and_Technology/enXadapt.html   (website may no longer exist)

Performance   Script / Content-Structure

Description:

COLLABORATIVE TELEPRESENCE   PROJECT

„Here I come again“ (Flying Birdman,  Spiral Jetty)

(mixed media: video/audio streams, still images, voices, graphics/text)

length: approx. 60 minutes/real-time synchronous

participating sites (five): Ohio, Arizona, Utah, Wisconsin, Brazil

Performance: Monday, November 25, 6:oo EST

CONTENT – STRUCTURE *

„Here I come again“ is a telematic „earthwork“ based on   narratives/dreams and structured spirally as a „Renga“ (linked poem)   composed of precorded filmic images; still images, drawings, camera-generated   movement-images; real-time audio and sound processing, and both spoken voice   and graphic text that is written on by participants continuously during the   live performance.

The performances delves into the theme of „left overs,“ debris and   returns, as well as the idea that what is returned needs to be transported from   one site to another. The anchoring voice of the Flying Birdman runs through   the entire telematic performance („Here I come again“), but this voice of the Birdman is also under-scored with subtle audio mixes and other traveling   and whispering voices that function like echoes or reverberations of single words.   These words can be chosen by the participating performers, picked up and digitally   transformed by the other collaborating site partners. The run-on voice of the   Birdman will be performed by all five sites, while we are watching video streams   (from one site), movement images (from another), still images (from another),   drawing and textual graphics (from another). We also anticipate that the Birdman’s   voice changes and transforms (from one language to an other).

Each partner site experiments with panoramic screen (with many windows open   at the same time) or surround screen allowing for the performers/participants  to see all sites dialogue with each other in a spiral, rather than having all   streams mixed down to one multicast. This allows local live audiences to see   all sites in parallel realtime (in the renga-like spiral of scenes), while also   having the option of watching a mixed/composite screen (UW will experiment with   mixing).

The dramaturgy for this telematic „earthwork“ envisions a spiralling   dialogue /communication – between sites and non-sites- , with at least 2 sites   dialoguing with each other (video, audio) at a given time during the 10 scenes,   and then the dialogue is passed on, as in the Renga form of a linked poem.

To ensure direct inter-action (call   & response) between the sites, we suggest that in the second round of the   performance (scene 6 – 10), we begin to let the camera-generating site (live   video stream) initiate a movement phrase that is „passed“ between    interacting partners, and we see movement becoming interlinked. The passing   on of a movement phrase need not be imitative, but each performers who sees   a movement gesture tries to develop it. In this evolving interchange, we again   want to work with the theme of „left over,“ movement debris, degraded   images…….and what happens to a movement when it comes back after someone   has seen/interpreted/re-behaved it.

We hope to see the Brazilian site on  the same speed (video/audio), or we will work with their iVisit connection to   incorporate text and graphics/drawings into a „graphic language“ that   is passed between. If one site is slower, we seek to integrate their existence, not overlook it.

The construction of this telematic  script is derived from a composite architecture of different textual, image,   and movement motifs.**

Narrative layers are based on a continuous/spiralling text (with 10 scenes ).   Each SCENE will last a total of 6 minutes, which means we have time to carefully   experience video streams, movement, resonances of voice,