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Pauline Oliveros' Sonic Meditations

Listening & Leading exercise (with Lara)

Listening Enquiry

Sound Maps - individual task

Bringing the Score to Life - group task (Gabi, Devian & I)
class sat in the dark as we recreated sound in the space

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Dan's Work
- When I Was Small
-George
-On The Sonority Of Clay
-Sonic Trails - Tate Early Years

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Social Scenography: Encounters & Invitations
- scenography creating social/imaginary spaces
-audience reception and engagement
-'encounter' & 'invitation'

Aesthetics and it's Discontents by Jacques Ranciere

'Untitled (Free/Still) - Rirkit Tiravanija

Notes:
- how audience can become the art
-blurring the lines between art/artist/audience/performer
- conceptual
-creating a 'social space' , 'being the art'
- does situation / situating give an act (art) more of a meaning? e.g if its in a gallery it is more likely to be percieved as art? (just a thought).
- the social encounter becomes the art/work as everybody is involved (the art)

'The Crystal Quilt' - Suzanne Lacy

Audience Participation by Gareth White

Fragment: A scenography that disorientates and misdirects (led the class around the new studio & it's connecting corridors, when they finally arrived in the new studio, my 'performance' was finished. - comical

Fragment Experimentation:
'The Hunt'
- led audience around the spaces surrounding the New Studio with directions, the signs sent them back and forth until they finally arrived in the room in which I took a bow and Lara clapped to signify the 'end of the performance' in which the audience missed
' a scenography that misdirects and aggravates'

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Headphone Theatre & Audio

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Began with Bell ringing excercise (Bob Minor)
Back to our scenographic toolboxes: my toolbox, elements of my own practice & what do I want to explore?
Given time to experiment with the sound equipment in the room (if necessary) or to use the space freely.
Draft Fragment was born in this session (see 'FRAGMENT' header).
Helped with the experimentation of the others work.

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Used lesson time to continute to experiment, adjust/adapt fragments.
- help others where needed etc..

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We all had a 15 minute slot each.
In my slot, I set up the tables and chairs and asked Dan & peers for feedback/thoughts on audience placement i.e peeking through the curtain, door.

Feedback:
- Usher could lead the audience around the space, maybe with a torch in the dark, so audience experience a sort of 'chance happening'.
-If audience peek through door - means that each audience member gets a chance to look - sign on door (instructions) - installation could last 5-7 mins?

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Scenographic Toolbox:
- dimensional
- textures and materials (senses)
- time (era/period), physical time (time of day, month, year), durational
- inhabitation (how someone inhabits/exists in the space)

Andreas' Practice:
stagingplaces.co.uk
Olive Grove, Olive Grove SE1

-site responsive
-paper roll

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Scenography Cheat Sheet
'A scenography that ....'

Task:
Identifying a theme
- theme of existing and just 'being'

Idea to 'blend into curtain'
Fragment- laying behind curtain, only head/hair showing, with a phone torch light to 'illuminate area' slightly

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Notes:
- active experimentation to create fragments
-always think 'a scenography that...' (verb)
e.g a scenography that confuses, scares, disorientates..
- don't be scared to make a decision and just go with it
- go with it, try it out, don't be too precious with ideas.

- to embrace the simplisitc parts of the room, and the analog, the architectural structures and components
(inside the room, what you can see and hear outside the room, window).

'scenography led performance'
'design led performance'
'scenography that designs an experience'
- try to find research questions and enquiries throughout my experimentation.

Experimentation #2 - theme of secrets - whispers in a dark room
End of Class reflections:
- think about an audience coming across the art - an accidental audience e.g balcony
- SPACE AS THE CENTRE
- think about the scenography being the centre - the main event
- centralise the space/sound

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IN [A] HABIT
-viewed the dance film with the BA students.

Properties of paper: light, fragile, thin, smooth, flat, transparent, texture, weight, reflecting, reflective, opaque

Paper roll experiment #1

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Paper Roll Experimentation #1.

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Paper Roll Experiment #2
Hank's Fragment Idea but with a paper roll instead... by Hank, Peijia and I.

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Fragment Sharings
- I shared a small fragment of 'Memory Loss' (a poem I wrote about not knowing where home is).
in order to gage a feeling/emotion that might have come from it.
Feelings of nostalgia, longing, familiarity.
The sound 'transported' everybody in the space.
Feedback - make it longer? think about further transitioning into this calm individual place.

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Scenography Fragment Idea #2
-Birthday Party
Themes of: loneliness, melancholy & isolation.
What does loneliness and melancholy 'visually' look like?

(See Draft Floor Sketch above)
Initial things to try/use: bass speaker, small table and chair, balloons, cake, candle, sign on door 'Belle's Birthday Party').

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Tracey Emin
- Everyone I Have Ever Slept With (1965-1995)
- My Bed (1999)

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Trying 'The Birthday Party' out.

Feedback:
- melancholic
- ambitious in terms of how many guests were expected to come (number of chairs laid out)
- think about the audience- having them in the tech desk could look as if I (the performer) are expecting them.
- possibly audience to view through the door, a gap in the curtains, 'peep hole', think CCTV
- use name tags
- more props
- bass speaker out rather than behind the curtain to amp up the volume.

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- Aronson, A. (2005) Looking into the Abyss: Essays on Scenography. United States of America: The University of Michigan Press. P99.
- Routledge Studies in Affective Societies (2019) Staging Spectators in Immersive Performances: Commit Yourself! 1st Ed. Edited by D. Kolesch, T. Schutz and S. Nikoleit. Oxford: Routledge.

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We watched/engaged with the other half of the clusters' fragments.
-30 min slots.
-gave feedback.

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Using the lesson time (6-9pm) to prepare for our assessment fragment showings the next day (tues 29th).

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Initally tried to run each piece in our chosen order, as a dress and technical rehearsal.

A few of us were at a different stage so we re-convened and decided that we all had a 15 min slot to do as we please (experiment, run - top and tail) then used the rest of the time as a final production meeting for tomorrow.

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I wrote up a schedule based on notes from the meeting.
Running order: Peijia, Belle, Devian, Iyas, Gabriella, Allie, Lara & Hank.
Including: set up & set down, sound, lighting, usher and filming roles for everybody.

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FRAGMENT SHOWINGS
ASSESMENT

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THE Birthday Party Presentation.mp4

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https://1drv.ms/p/s!ArfR8PXl3wcmnQvj_rflAcnzT5Yv?e=ntzxVB

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THE Birthday Party.pptx - Microsoft PowerPoint Online

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Script

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Last Scenography Lesson :(

- ate chocolate and discussed next week (assessment week)

- we were given the lesson time (6-9pm) to use the space however we wished, and each had a one-to-one tutorial with Andreas.

My Tutorial Notes/Thoughts:
- Further talk about the audience and how they will exist in the space.

Production Meeting:
- figuring out tech and room set up (chairs etc).
-revisiting the running order to see if fragments can be paired due to props. for example: lara uses 16/18 chairs and so does Hank, so we moved them together in order to help with set up and set down time.