EMMA: New Ground

Interactive system

I am interested in a system that allows the audience in a theater to control many of the elements in the performance. Many years ago I saw a performance where the sound was controled by the presence of shadows over an image, if I were able to place the same kind of image over the audience every movement they made would create a sound score or trigger an event when I decided they could. The audience would move arms mostly to trigger events but it could also be designed so that the slightest movement would trigger events.The audience would have to know or figure out that they were controling the events and that way they could manipulate the rules. I would need a camera system that would be able to see the audience so they could interact. For instance the audience could trigger a menu that would determine the next dance or change the order of sections of a dance or watch a video about a section of a dance. I think of it like going to an exhibit in a museum and watching a video or learning something about the artist.

posted by Unknown @ 2:56 PM