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Dendriet is a network of musicians in The Hague (.nl) that perform with networked electronic and acoustic instruments. The word dendriet, or dendrite, is also the name for the receptors of a nervecell. Dendrites are typically branching branches. You'll find these fractal shapes in ice, in metal chrystals in limestone, and likewise, in our performance setups. Please do check out our homepage by clicking the stone. You too are invited to join the discussions.
6.2.05
Live Video Reality
I'm always of the opinion that a new medium that you introduce in a performance should tell a part of the story that could otherwise not be expressed. If I am at -say- a U2 concert, and Bono is beamed on a huge screen, the that would make me realize that the real Bono is small and very far away from me. This mistake is made in a lot of dance pieces. They just echo the dancers. U2 got over it, they display different information on the screens.
It's much like the Greek felt about tragedies, where there was an unity in space and time, and information from different times and other places were brought in by a messenger entering the room.
That information comming from the screen could be as simple as an angle to look at things. Students in the modern department were using a camera during a dance. It didn't work during the rehearsals, until they boiled it down to just that: the angle. They beamed the camera image on the horizon, and the camera was on the left side. This way each of the three dancers had 3 'variants':
The real view on the dancer,
The view from the side behind that, bigger then life size.
The sillouet of the dancer, the shade on the screen.
Simple, yet the extra information was very interesting, even to me.
But it would be utterly cool, if you projection showed different objects then real life. I came across a boring video on the web, that should have been very cool when it was rendered live, as the projection shows different objects then the reality version. Czech it out!
It's much like the Greek felt about tragedies, where there was an unity in space and time, and information from different times and other places were brought in by a messenger entering the room.
That information comming from the screen could be as simple as an angle to look at things. Students in the modern department were using a camera during a dance. It didn't work during the rehearsals, until they boiled it down to just that: the angle. They beamed the camera image on the horizon, and the camera was on the left side. This way each of the three dancers had 3 'variants':
The real view on the dancer,
The view from the side behind that, bigger then life size.
The sillouet of the dancer, the shade on the screen.
Simple, yet the extra information was very interesting, even to me.
But it would be utterly cool, if you projection showed different objects then real life. I came across a boring video on the web, that should have been very cool when it was rendered live, as the projection shows different objects then the reality version. Czech it out!
