The place is now "opened" up. Obstructions removed, and a certain "center-stage" created. Hooman might not perform though. Matthew hurt his ankle in yesterday's show and there is a strong chance Hooman will take his place.
This remains to be seen.
Yet in spite of this little technical mishap, Hooman still managed to give Shawn his two ingenuous tracks of Traditional Persian music.
The run-through was as follows:
Thomas will initiate the process, there was one cycle of vocal improvisation, magnet intervention, pillow routine, interception of Persian music, Samba, noise then Bossa Nova, then mobile alarm and voila!
At some point Brian suggested that I take a mic and assure the present audience that this is not a performance. I had to be "unserious" about it. I couldn't.
Erin took over. And along the process she would be repeating statements about the nature of this process, and if it were a real performance, such and such might have happened, such and such might have been seen.
Everyone was still debating how exact the transitions should be, and the timing of the overlapping processes. I think that "lets do anything", concept behind this process, already created quite a complex process, where the various spatial and temporal elements were heavily dramaturgically manipulated. And the main concepts of each process Erin talked about was somehow brought in this very tight time frame.
I believe that it is enough of an evident (visible?) condition to call it a "collaboration".
In a sense that a collectivity of artists engaged at a certain level, presented their work, cross-examined this work, and finally set out to "do" something in a designated space, in a specific time frame.
Shawn had to go for his own rehearsals, another run-through took place.
Erin came up with the idea of writing a sign, "If this was a performance...." placed on the door outside, so people read it on their way in.
Again the notion of "filming" the process gave rise to debate, with Brian saying this makes it sound or look like a real performance, and everyone agreeing that is "staged" in a way. So it was agreed it will be filmed, starting by filming the signs on the door.
People started coming in and interfering with the "setting" of the place, it was really clearly defined and set, there was a "center-stage".
The process was broken down to:
1) Mobile Phone routine
2) Vocal Improvisation
3) Erin reading and Erin and Brian's magnet routine
4) Musical intervention
5) Thomas pillow-throwing
6) Erin sitting at the very end of the room, where the pillows are
7) Eleonora picking the pillows and placing them on top of Erin
8) Samba!
9) Throwing magnets/one clever sentence routine
10) Bossa Nova
11) Alarm sound off
Ten minutes passed, and I was anticipating the intervention of music. For some obscure reason, I was not "satisfied" with the monotony of one two layers of sound, I wanted more!
However, Eleonora was already adding a few textual twists to the improvisation, these unpredictable, quite subtle twists, were like nice surprises..
The pillow struggle was little too violent though. But then my favorite track was not played!
But it was a success!
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