Experiments in Application for "Virtual Concerts"
As I continue down this brave new world of experimenting with using virtual analogs to save carbon emissions on traveling to physical sites for environmental interventions, I am encountering masses of small unforeseen problems.
For example, creating episodes of "Virtual Concerts", for TalkShoe.com. The fun part is lining up & designing the episodes to break down issues that arose in the Virtual Residencies. The other part has included that my normal speaking voice is so soft it requires special phones and tons of sophisticated adjustments. Who knew? I have been struggling to solve this problem since the first Virtual Concert in early August.
What I can't control at all, is whether I have insomnia the night before. Let alone a late night of creative revelry. Live at 10AM can challenge my aplomb and cheeriness on four hours sleep. Or alternately, my attention span.. and consequently the listener's. It makes me feel far more respectful of TV broadcasting people like Diane Sawyer and Katie Couric than I ever was before.
Incidentally, as a person with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, who uses my illness as a template for sustainability, these glitches require constant rethinking of my strategies.
It is weird, grounded as a visual and sometimes performance artist, to rely entirely on the ear, broadcasting from a silent room all by myself. I feel very and literally am, disembodied. Disembodied to address very material concerns. It sometimes makes me feel disoriented- not a good thing when you are broadcasting live. The old style radio shows always had sound engineers and others around.
This past week, the "Ear to the Earth" festival has begun in NYC and all sorts of wonderful people have gathered to present and talk about acoustic ecologies. But it is far away (for me) and requires (for me) exhausting travel. So the day after, I can't get any work done. It is wonderful to think of artists all over the world gathering found sound and sound that localizes itself. The great value of cities is the opportunity to convene in person on such occasions. But how to access everyone else?
Ah well, that brings me back to the earlier paragraphs today and my "Virtual Concerts". Once I solve all these technical glitches anyway. And get some sleep.
For example, creating episodes of "Virtual Concerts", for TalkShoe.com. The fun part is lining up & designing the episodes to break down issues that arose in the Virtual Residencies. The other part has included that my normal speaking voice is so soft it requires special phones and tons of sophisticated adjustments. Who knew? I have been struggling to solve this problem since the first Virtual Concert in early August.
What I can't control at all, is whether I have insomnia the night before. Let alone a late night of creative revelry. Live at 10AM can challenge my aplomb and cheeriness on four hours sleep. Or alternately, my attention span.. and consequently the listener's. It makes me feel far more respectful of TV broadcasting people like Diane Sawyer and Katie Couric than I ever was before.
Incidentally, as a person with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, who uses my illness as a template for sustainability, these glitches require constant rethinking of my strategies.
It is weird, grounded as a visual and sometimes performance artist, to rely entirely on the ear, broadcasting from a silent room all by myself. I feel very and literally am, disembodied. Disembodied to address very material concerns. It sometimes makes me feel disoriented- not a good thing when you are broadcasting live. The old style radio shows always had sound engineers and others around.
This past week, the "Ear to the Earth" festival has begun in NYC and all sorts of wonderful people have gathered to present and talk about acoustic ecologies. But it is far away (for me) and requires (for me) exhausting travel. So the day after, I can't get any work done. It is wonderful to think of artists all over the world gathering found sound and sound that localizes itself. The great value of cities is the opportunity to convene in person on such occasions. But how to access everyone else?
Ah well, that brings me back to the earlier paragraphs today and my "Virtual Concerts". Once I solve all these technical glitches anyway. And get some sleep.
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