so when i present today ya’ll are going to be expecting one thing and getting another.
after weeks of being unable to write a script that i liked or that felt like it could even get at what i wanted to talk about, i decided to go with the thing i really want to do an do my electronic burlesque routine. this happened on FRIDAY, and i feel like i’ve been pretty productive since then given i’ve reworked everything over the past 5 days.
i’m making pasties using an accelerometer and tri-color LEDs based on leah buechley’s accelerometer shirt project, a bra and skivvies made from EL wire, and depending on how much i can crank out in the next week or so, maybe another layer of simpler electronics (like a bra made from headlights).
i’m envisioning it as a multimedia performance, with video that looks like it could be a live feed going on in the background, with several performers for the first part of the routine, and then switching to a solo electronic dance. i’ve shot some video already– i don’t have it to show you because i started coding instead of pulling the footage off the p2 cards; i’ve got my music pretty much squared away (it’s pop music, please don’t hate me); i have done some basic blocking with my performers (but not with the latest cut of music) and i have the concept down (it’s, how you say, autobiographical?, in content); i’ve designed how i think the bra and electronic components are going to work together, and i’ve been playing with the code– but i’ve hit a little roadblock with that and can only get certain behaviors out of the LED.
so,
by this time next week, i want the bra, pasties, and headdress that houses the microcontroller to be programmed, if not completed. i want the panties to be designed and maybe sewn, so that i can know how feasible a second layer of (removable) electronics will be.
i’ll be capturing and going over the footage from the shoot to see what i can compose and how it will fit in with the storyline.
i will be holding rehearsal with the other performers next week to go over blocking/choreography.
the costumes for the other performers are already squared away. i will just have to figure out what my outer costume is going to look like, and probably invest in a fall or weave.
that’s the update. this is what i’m doing.
