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Suzanne Kite

School of MusicBFA-4, Composition

[email protected]

Title

(omega)

Proposal Present Kites omega as a combined NWF and Digital Arts Expo show, possibly

in a larger set of other music/tech performances by Digital Arts Expo .

Location ROD or Co " eehouse Theater, depending on availability for Thursday, May 8.

Date May 8, 2014

Time9pm - 3am

Presenters New Works Festival / Digital Arts Expo

Lineuplive electronic sets including Kites o mega

Type of Work

Performance; including dance, digital art, lm, music composition, performanceart


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Participants

Project Synopsis

The most under represented peoples in the United States, and thereforCalArts, are the decimated populations of native peoples who populated whatis now known as the United States. As a registered member of the Oglala

Lakota tribe, I feel an obligation to acknowledge the extreme pain continuallyoccurring as a result of the refusal of the American people to acknowledge theexistence of the most impoverished ethnic population. My work seeks tocreate space within my audiences perception of the unending stream ofothering within the human consciousness, while avoiding my bias to onlyrepresent my own peoples.

Omega is an hour long exploration of that which cannot be accessed, andtherefore cannot be sorted in our perception.

The human mind insists on categorizing, ling, and othering in order to makesense of reality. This piece seeks to identify perceptual boundaries through theuse of di " erent methods of counting, utilizing physical, visual, and auditoryphenomenon. The moment the brain forgets that counting has been occurring,the moment where perception breaks from conscious categorization, is thedoor to the inaccessible. By exposing these limits in perception, every realm of


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categorization can be exposed, especially that which involves humaninteractions.

My piece is an hour long set with 8 self-contained pieces that interact with eachother.

1. While wearing an iPhone that is networked with Max for Live & Ableton Live, I willuse the gyrOSC application and Max patch developed by Eric Singleton to controlsound and video just by placing rocks in continuous circles on the oor. As I reach 80rocks, the 80 pitch frequencies will reach stability and create the phenomenon ofhearing white noise, a perceptual phenomenon where one feels they can hear everypitch possible at once, at an equal volume. Thus, the brain tips over into innity.

2. The second piece will begin with single impulses of sound, and slowly expand into

tones and textures. Each stage of sonic development will be animated and projectedonto the scrim mounted in the space. This form of counting will take the audiencethrough a sonic/visual tour of 1 dimensional space, all the way to theoretical 6D space,through the use of theoretical shapes. Surround sound will be use to create thesonication of these dimensions.

3. Videos of hands counting will be projected and count the audience through therising tones, hinting at the tritone paradox, a phenomenon where the brain cannotdistinguish between higher and lower tones. The Shepherds Scale, an auditoryphenomenon that creates an endlessly rising sound, will emerge, so the brain istricked into thinking the sound never reaches any point, but continuously rises intoinnity. This will be controlled with a midi controller which will send OSC messages to


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Ableton, and the visual program Resolume, at the same time. These phenomenon willbe layered and re-organized with real instruments live, tying into the layering of the

video simultaneously.

4. The fourth piece is an attempt to recreate the theory of Speed Up proposed byphilosopher and mathematician Rudy Rucker in Infinity and the Mind . Animation willcoincide with the auditory phenomenon, where evenly spaced impulses will be spedup until the rate of impulses turns into a pitch. These pitches will exist and mix atdi" erent levels of acceleration, creating rhythmic content, and in turn be held out atdi" erent intervals, creating harmonic content.

5. The fth section exposes how constructs of the mind reach beyond counting, suchas the limits of body, self, voice, and identity. Taking a riddle called Woman from

Infinity and the Mind and shape it into a piece dealing with violence against the self and

violence against women, the ultimate Other in many societies. I will use voice andnoise to sonically induce the chaos of existing within constructs. I will be working withMFA lm maker Soa Canales and lm maker Joel Reeves to create video clips that willbe triggered live with OSC.

6. The sixth piece uses a mathematical model of an innity system, a Lindenmeyersystem, to show how innite systems are used to grow plants in nature. This system

will be used to digitally grow a plant. Sonically, its growth will be followed by live andrecorded instruments. Finally, multiple plants will bloom into life, diverging from thesystem.


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7. The seventh section will take all previous sections that have been created and useeach sonic palate to create and deconstruct a sonic and visual universe. Eachprevious part can be presented as a separate instrument in this piece.

8. The nal piece will deal with the string paradox: Every string which has one endalso has another end; a paradox because of the possibility of innite systems. Using amore traditional electronic music style, the set will conclude by presenting a

performance with three dancers where the projections will follow and trace thedancers bodies. They will use a 100 foot veil as a prop, nding no beginning, no end,and never being able to reach the other side, or each other.

This piece includes the use of new technologies developed at CalArts and by peopleclosely tied to CalArts as well as common programs being pushed to theirexperimental limits. Programs such as GyrOSC, Processing, Resolume, MicrosoftKinect, Max for Live, and SuperCollider will be used to bring projection mapping, bodymapping, and sound from the body into auditory and visual space. Through theseprograms the body can be used as a controller of electronic instruments.


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Technical RequirementsScenic: See attached

Set consists of a 5x5x5 ft shell where a table is enclosed, with all theequipment inside.Scrim and rope are hung from the ceiling, resembling the innite curveson omega graph.

Costume: See attached1 costume for the music performer, and 2 costumes for the dancers

Lighting:Lighting will come from 2 projectors.

Sound:

Sound & related equipment will, preferably, be provided by the musicschool.

Budget: See attached


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costume

dancers

kite

needed:1 kite costume

2 dancer costumes

-light, semi- opaque fabric-hemline reaches to just past the knees-extra long sleeves-seams should have stretch for dancing

- highly structured geometric top pencilskirt

- use of sheer fabric- skirt should start from above waist- must allow wearer to kneel and reach- optional semi-structured vest

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