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Sky Saw
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"Dead Air Live"
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On September 30, 2003, a live TV performance
was produced in the studios of Somerville Community Access TV (SCAT), as
part of a semi-weekly broadcast series called "Dead Air Live." On
that occasion, 3 members of a band called Sky Saw performed with 3 dancers
and at least a dozen members and enlistees of the Somerville Producer's
Group (SPG), to create an immersive audio-video extravaganza that was, for much
of the show, processed by
Melodicon
in real time.
The Somerville Producer's Group is
a non-profit cable access organization that has produced community-based
outreach, documentary, and arts programming since 1974. Many thanks
to SCAT for providing the facilities to make this and hundreds of other
shows possible.
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Yuri Zbitnoff
drums & percussion
Corey Redonnett
electronic zither and samples
David Pek
woodwinds and brass |
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Olivier Besson
Liz Roncka
Ali Essakali |
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dance |
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Scott Bowden
producer, camera and visual effects
Michael Hall
Melodicon projection, editing |
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production
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Lisa Klingebiel
director, tapes
Charlie Tesch
video switcher, lighting
Rachel Eisengart
computer graphics
Dave Barnes
audio
Ricardo Pineda
camera, lighting
Marco Beaulieu
camera
Lee Stewart
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~NOTES~
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As with many of the live TV events
presented by the Somerville Producer's Group, the show that aired at
8pm on cable Channel 3 in Somerville, Mass on September 30, 2003 was not
scripted or rehearsed in any way. The musicians had never met the
dancers, and only a few of the members of the studio crew had ever worked
with any of the performers. However, there was a strong tradition of
producing music shows at SCAT on alternate Tuesday evenings, and most
everyone was prepared for the inclusion of the acoustically reactive video
synthesis made possible by Melodicon, which was to be mixed into the video
stream directly and also projected behind and upon the musicians and
dancers themselves. It took only about an hour to completely pack the
television studio with musical equipment, audio/video processing gear,
computers, and staff. Six cameras were trained on the performance,
four of which were being fed into the control room for live mixing.
For the first half of the show, Sky Saw performed a richly textured and
tightly punctuated set, creating unique sonic landscapes that were made
visible through Melodicon's enhancement of the video stream through sound.
For the second half of the show, the dancers appeared, their performance
driven by the mood set by the musicians, and the video projection of their
own images at times appearing on their bodies as they moved across the
floor.
The clips seen here were incorporated into a set of presentations
sponsored by the Harvard Graduate School of Education on October 9th &
10th, 2003, where I demonstrated both the practical and aesthetic uses of
Melodicon, and were used with permission.
-- Michael Hall, Nov. 2003
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