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Welcome
Welcome to my performance diary.
It is here that I'll be recording my thoughts, reflections, and progress in the pursuit of my Master's degree at Queen's University. This ezine is being created to fulfill the requirement of a diary for my performance module, where I will be working to create a large-scale audiovisual performance. My hope is to expose, in some small way, the difficulties, successes, and inspirations that are inevitable prices of admission when creating new work.
Ideas I look forward to exploring:
-Live performance, and the role of visuals
-Improvisation and its social dynamics
-The history of audiovisual interaction
-Current audiovisual composers and their work processes, methodologies, and poieses
-What inspires, and why
Ideas I will be forced to explore, regardless of how I feel about them:
-Writer's [Artist's] block
-Situations in which visuals are detrimental to performance
-Deadlines, expectations, and pressures
Disclaimer: Fair Warning
-The works presented here will be equal parts mine (amateur, self-indulgent, and perhaps, if we're lucky, successful) and professional (artists that actually know what they're doing).
-The thoughts put forth will be also be equal parts mine (judgemental, opinionated, and completely and unabashedly biased) and expert (academics who actually know what they're talking about, with footnotes and other fancy things real adults make use of).
-Finally, my personal reflections on inspiration and process may be random, jumbled, and/or profound beyond my wildest dreams. I make no promises of coherence, relevence, or any other value of worth, other than this: I'll do my best to not blog while drinking. Let's get started.
February 3, 2012