Friday, 21 November 2008

What happened after tim left us!

We made the a rough copy of the first instalment of 'sound poetry'/ 'music'.
Ask will for a copy..... i think?
We also made a recording for our music of us eating and drinking, we discussed this being used twice, once by it self and with used as a basis for one of our peices of music.
We also went through in more detail about the structure of our piece.
  • The Phone ordering,- good evening sam oriental rice hut, kym's hotdog diner etc etc
  • food being 'prepared' on projection screen-while we are eating it, (kym eating hotdogs, luxy-pizza, will-curry, me- chinese, tim- chicken, elena- kebabs/chips)
  • then us moving through the audience - our body- so to speak while images of the camera in the body thing (dunno the proper word for it) are projected on to the wall, a stop us rushing back to the 'stage' and pretending to be sick.
  • images of sick and lots of fat people, mobility scooters, fat in tubes, fat around hearts, fat people eating gross food.
  • the triangle- sound poetry incorporating Luxy's brill ideas, wine glass tapping etc, with the stamping on pasta, (yuk etc) and then moving into giving out junk food, (maybe incorporate the giving of the food into the poem)
  • us having ago at the audience ("have you not listened" "food bad- slow you down make you a fatty") leading into
  • the art sped up (Will's ideas) on the projection screen (maybe have "the end" written into the art work)

So far that is what i remember discussing, please make alterations etc if wrong.

I had an Additional idea to end the peice of us slowing down into a tablu (spl??) of somesort of gross over weight yucky thing of us eating pasta and cake and yummy foods that would stop us "progessing with the futuist ideas of movement" (i dunno why i like saying that but i do lol)

setting

we also lighty touched on how to set this all up, with maybe a dust sheet to protect the floors, and easier cleaning up. also having edible art scultures around the room, and displays of futurist foods with the recipes (i have written a few down).

an additional idea is that maybe we could make our own cookbook, with recipes of the past, and new recipes that we could make up oursleves to give it that cintempory feel. and that mixed tastes etc (can't remeber futurist word for it but luxy has it written down... duluce... i think) with a dos and don't guide of foods to avoid etc, don't eat this it will make you fatter! but do it this as it can give you speed1 lololol

I know i have rambled abit, but hope it helps everyone with todays meeting.

Sorry about the spelling mistakes!!!!

Meeting minutes 21/11/08

Meeting minutes 21/11/08

La Cucina Futurista:
exciting the enamel of the teeth
laughter was the laxative of the futurist body

endoscopy videos for shock value/represent food's journey through the body

spray cologne/perfume in the air

incorporate classical music (flight of the valkyries) to simulate dinner party, blend into machine noises/futurist music

limit music to interval between 'courses'

stamp on pasta

eat fatty foods on stage

music: breaking glass : tonal music
add broken glass to food for garnish

dress as waiters, serve futurist food and forbid tasty food

blue wine as part of sound poetry

futurist sushi

structure:
ordering food sound poetry
food being made
eating
digestion
after effects/results
with musical interludes

central theme - obesity
play waiters who are providers of fatty foods-sound poetry

next meetings:
monday 10-2
tuesday 9-12
wednesday 11 onwards

Monday, 17 November 2008

Rehearsal of Mon 17th / Next ToDoList

Evening Acolytes!

Thanks to everyone who could make it, we missed you Sam! We hope everything is OK...
Our next rehearsal shall be THIS Friday during normal lecture hours. If we decide different, comment on this post.

In this Rehearsal we discussed:
  • Focusing on our Central themes; "fatty foods", "obesity/famine", "the digestive system--as a structure".
  • Individual roles.

  • Sound poetry + dramatized movements;


    (in this order)
  1. "ordering food" -- using a prerecorded sound poetry track (while we perform static poses)
  2. "consuming food" -- performing vocal sound effects of eating food (however disgusting)
  3. "digesting food" -- performing elaborate movements to demonstrate the process that food takes when being consumed (using 1 person to stand center stage, performing actions as the rest 'move' around the audience...)
  • Brainstorming our ideas;
  1. Costumes; 'Chef hats and aprons' -- 'aprons with food images on' -- 'fat suits'...
  2. Technical preparations; 'implementing visuals' -- 'obesity/famine, stomach, digestive photos' -- 'video footage of digestive tract' -- 'implementing music'...
  3. Artistic preparations; 'Food sculpting' -- 'prerecorded, sped-up, footage of us making a canvas painting of futurist art using food (mayo, ketchup, etc.)' ..
There's probably lots more that I forgot.
ToDoList for Next Rehearsal (if this applies)
  1. Come up with methods of a scene to stage using our themes and ideas.
  2. Find and bring-in TAKE-AWAY Menu's and note some good terms/food words for sound poetry.
  3. Think of ways to implement music into our performance.
Hope everyone gets on ok!

W

Friday, 14 November 2008

New Blog

Welcome to the new blog for Marinetti's Antipasti!