• In the Spring of 2009 The Roundhouse will host ‘Short Circuit’ a celebration of electronica and have invited ‘ditto’ to join the program
• Ditto is the bringing together of storytellers from around the world – writers, visual and sonic to inspire and influence the composition of new work, and the selection of classic pieces of electronica and dance music to accompany film and narrative art
• During March & April visual and sonic artists will collaborate via the internet and interpret selected pieces of writing and poetry
• The collaborative process will form a chronicle and archive of ditto and the event on May 16th will be live web cast
• But drawing on the dance culture heritage of coming together for a one-time shared experience with no record of the event itself: It is permanently temporary
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'Afternoon. A couple of questions:
What's the process for selecting the texts and will there be a text curator?
Is the current list of human conditions final or work in progress. If the latter, what will be process for making a final selection?
James
Great questions James
We are tackling these from various angles. Single person, group - a hybrid. How do we tackle this? It needs solving. I circulated a draft Brief for Creation with suggested texts - have got feedback - all positive. We have an RH conference call on Friday 29th Jan at 11am (will circulate dial-in) - suggest we try and have these questions answered (all or in part) by then.
Thoughts y'all
Mike
Hi Everyone,
I think if we can be armed with as many suggestions as possible when selecting the final list of human conditions that would be great. Each one should be as broad as possible so as to inspire a wider selection of works. This way we can also whittle it down to fewer categories.
For example- vanity or narcissism could come under the banner of love,
So if we try and make suggestions as huge all encompassing as possible we'll end up with really powerful and inspiring categories.
Phillip
Phillip
Great point Phillip - lets circulate the long list during the course of today and then boil down tomorrow at the studio....
Creation
Love
War
Poverty
Despair
Greed
Faith
Farewell
are there others - then we can as you suggest strain how the theme is interpreted ? Also - there are some killer passages of writing that would be wonderful to see how we might weave - where could we fit Fear & Loathing In Vegas!!
Mike
I'd like to propose this passage from Slaughterhouse Five for War...
'Billy turned on the television. He came slightly unstuck in time, saw the late movie backwards, then forwards again. It was a movie about American bombers in the Second World War and the gallant men who flew them. Seen backwards by Billy, the story went like this:
American planes, full of holes and wounded men and corpses took off backwards from an airfield in England. Over France, a few German fighter planes flew at them backwards, sucked bullets and shell fragments from some of the planes and crewmen. They did the same for wrecked American bombers on the ground, and those planes flew up backwards to join the formation.
The formation flew backwards over a German city that was in flames. The bombers opened their bomb bay doors, exerted a miraculous magnetism which shrunk the fires, gathered them into cylindrical steel containers, and lifted the containers into the bellies of the planes. The containers were stored neatly in racks. The Germans below had miraculous devices of their own, which were long steel tubes. They used them to suck more fragments from the crewmen and planes. But there were still a few wounded Americans, though, and some of the bombers were in bad repair. Over France, though, German fighters came up again, made everything and everybody as good as new.
When the bombers got back to their base, the steel cylinders were taken from the racks and shipped back to the United States of America, where factories were operating night and day, dismantling the cylinders, separating the dangerous contents into minerals. Touchingly, it was mainly women who did this work. The minerals were then shipped to specialists in remote areas. It was their business to put them into the ground, to hide them cleverly, so they would never hurt anybody again.
The American fliers turned in their uniforms, became high school kids. And Hitler turned into a baby, Billy Pilgrim supposed. That wasn't in the movie. Billy was extrapolating. Everybody turned into a baby, and all humanity, without exception, conspired biologically to produce two perfect people named Adam and Eve, he supposed.'
Fantastic James! Makes me want to read the book again.
It's already a pretty visual piece so I'd be curious to see how it could be interpreted in a sense other than the literal one.
Phillip
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