a snowflake falls

and so begins snowflake...the ideas log for those who join with me in creating stories...here is a small way to map the path of the development of ideas - though right off the bat i have become aware of copyright and goodness knows - surely i don't need to concern myself with idea ownership, theft etc...so - how to make this place a forum for those who join me in projects without giving too much away...dang it's a funny ol' business nowadays.

so anyhow - i have been wanting to create a story based on sound/visual ideas and wanted to journal the development of it.

it's a backwards way of coming up with a story but this is the way i am working - through the evoking of images and sounds as a jumping off place. so it will be interesting to see where it goes - to allow the clues to appear and to gel.

i wanted to make this online journal available to friends - particularly those who wish to participate in this venture. i already have had wonderful discussions with the fabulous annie.

the medium for this is stage - a theatre show of some sort - possibly with some film or other multimedia device. so here it begins - at the beginning

the initial sound prompters were:
1. a typewriter - old school clunking
2. a bicycle - inspired by Richard Lerman's work with Travelon Gamelon





other information regarding Lerman's gamelon can be viewed here. these include info on how to make piezo mics (contact mics), documentation of the bicycle work he has done, and the score for the piece Travelon Gamelon.

at the time that these initial sound prompters came up, i was interested in creating theatre that utilised the contact mic ie. transforming small sounds into large ones. in conjunction with this, i had images of paper being used both as a visual device and as a material for amplification. my interest in origami also emerged.

so these were the initial prompters.

i was then particularly taken by the film The Colour of Pomegranates (1968) by Sergei Parajanov - a life portrait explored visually through the poetic works of Sayat Nova. the sound and visual design in this is exquisite - at once captivating and mysterious.