Sferic Sounds from NASA!

so cool!: http://spaceweather.com/glossary/inspire.html
"Earth Song," a NASA article about where the sounds come from: http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2001/ast19jan_1/

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raw material: http://www.forte.lanl.gov/science/publications/2001/Heavner_2001_1_Leader.pdf

costuming ideas

K: fugitive, browns, dark greens, torn, maybe even army surplus

N: white/off-white, would love to have writing on the sleeves, maybe combination of symbols

just sketchings...

More stalker images

image for beginning/end figure on the ground

8/26/2010 Rehearsal Notes

We began to set interaction points in the score where proximity and/or energy cue one of the performers to move to the next section. The moments we identified so for:
1) K exhale/drop to ground signals Nat's arms off the chest
2) K walk stage R signals Nat turn downstage
3) K approach Nat on upstage horizontal signals shifts between gestural material, fitting two fingers together to pointing out
4) Nat's tracing gesture draws K along the upstage horizontal
5) Nat's shaking releases K from upstage horizontal/stage right vertical pathway into circular paths in space
6) K falls, Nat transitions to standing point with slow descent to floor over foot
7) Nat drop to floor is triggered by K in proximity, back bend

We also discussed the two roles, whether one is a scientist and the other an ex-scientist, etc. If this distinction is useful for generating material, then we can work in it, but I'd like to steer away from anything allegorical. We also talked about how the gestural material can create more tension and muscular activity in the body, and the dramatic consequences of this were quite stunning.

observer and observed, measurement and mapping

The Observer in Modern Physics
http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/k-12/Numbers/Math/Mathematical_Thinking/observer.htm

This is a source I found when I was choreographing Fell. The second half is unnecessarily mathematized (i.e. mathematics used to explain concepts better conveyed in words), which is an interesting though in and of itself. One of the most interesting points in the article is the "interaction boundary" and the description of information flow from observed to observed.


I'm interested in the act of taking a measurement and the behaviors that result. Beyond the realization that science is not as impartial or precise as our popular conception of it, measurement is a deeply problematic act. When we probe a system, how do we know what the information we take means? How do we know our data corresponds to?

Which brings me to the models and mappings. Our scientific understanding is based on models, on theoretical constructions that are then mapped to data obtained in the physical world. Thus, mapping, the connection between the scientific model and the physical data, is also problematic.

Mod and Angela

We need to come up with better names for our characters: Mod and Angela
For the purposes of this post Mod will refer to the observer; Angela is the observed

Thoughts:

Problematizing science as "hard" fact
how to measure and record something that one cannot know
the inner workings of a brain, the size of an atom
how to map something you cannot see

-how an observer inherently changes the observed "fact"
-extrapolate to the performance context: presence of the spectator, presence of the performer

mapping on the body
knowing due to internal sensation versus external input

-Feedback loops
how to make the exchange between Mod and Angela related, causal even?

-What is it like to lose control of the measurement process?
How does that differ from losing control of one's own limbs?

-Gaze; seeing is believing? Seeing as a form of measurement. Not believing one's eyes. Vision as fundamentally flawed.