Saw this article in today’s AGE about Chunky Move’s “Glow”. I’m heading up to Sydney next week to put the show into the Sydney Opera House and operate it for a weeks worth of shows. I really dig this show. I think it’s one of the only successful ‘multi-media’ (…worst term ever - it makes me want to scream, or at least say a bunch of nasty & amusing stuff..) performances I’ve worked on.
I was chatting to some friends the other day about how it has taken about the last 10 years for ‘new-media’ work to start being interesting - rather than just stuff + screen, of which most is crap and dull. I think that it’s taken this long for artists to a) get a handle on the tech and b) start to be able to conceptualise from the ground up a place for the computer in performance. Thankfully the ideas seem to have moved on from the more process focussed stuff like, “Check me out - how awesome is that I can move and the stuff on screen does as well!?” or “I’m moving pixels in Melbourne and on the screen someone is moving the same pixels from Canada. It’s like talking on phone but slower and crapper. It’s the future.”
Apart from multi-media rants, I’ve been flat out mixing 2 records, one for a band called ‘Dust’ whose music I can best describe as ‘folk rock streaked with country, psychedelic and prog rock flavors’. The other disc I’m in the midst of is for ‘The Red Tree’ whose music is somewhere in the Sigur Ros territory of vast and expansive beauty. Then there has been the first two weeks of a new semester at RMIT, and more besides…
Sleep is for losers.
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