Yo. Here are a few of my responses to the question, "how do we translate our kick-ass album into a kick-ass live performance?", in the visual realm:
a crackly, grainy stage picture of a tore-up city bird
a talking L-train ad for Mr. MPD
an amplified music box image of the BW--"Until I Find I Can't" (get out of my beautiful box)
A giant canine sylph; the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man; a triple-sized, leather-clad Karen's/Ben's Dads Hybrid (Bird Dog)
Nine Out Of Ten--lunatic angular females, protruding from unlikely angles, exalting their watchableness while their faces turn red
More to follow...
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Despite our connection to computers, virtual reality, online experience, etc. on this project, it is important to me that we don't try to recreate those experiences on stage. I don't really even think there should be computers on stage at all. I think we can come up with a more creative and metaphoric staging aka the much-discussed tree with wire vines or something else to that effect. I don't think that our collective understanding of these online communities is that sophisticated, and I would love to see us take an approach to this project with the same kind of sensitivity we used when we started with the similarly broad topic of "War" with Billy. Let's create our own world (or set of worlds) on stage with its own logic and mythologies, rather than trying to figure out how to stage an avatar.
ReplyDeleteI agree. I think the computer world is more in the grappling of physical objects, rather than staging of the literal idea.
ReplyDeleteFact is, this is staged. And the virtual world is a metaphor, or another stage in reality, and I feel that what is interesting is to take the parallel of recreation that stage offers and twist it all up in the escapism, optimism, judgement and themes of seeking, watching and adjusting that the album contains.
I'll write more next week, after my crits, unless they go badly.
Oh yeah, and what the hell is the Ben's/Karen's Dad clad in leather all about? My father does not wear leather. He's no leather daddy...No-really. What?
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