PLENUM - synopsis
Act Zero:
Prelude, pre-scene, hors scene. 7'40"
[musical annotations: R.W. Fassbinder's In a Year of 13 Moons,
Suicide's "Frankie Teardrop"]
Act 1: Gathering of the tribes
1:30 (7pm - 8:30pm)
Act 1: Substance.
[larger groupings, meta data flagging groups and individuals.
The song: "I am one, i am a neuron". neural switching model.]
At the townhall- 8 groups are formed around 8 microphones, a working station with PD-ers (pure data), a long table with food and drinks, a punch bag and a microphone centrally placed, two notetakers with a shared microphone, an MC guides the proceedings for the ACTS.
The groups consist either existing media/cultural collectives or groups formed for the night. Each group is asked to discuss among themselves an Agenda for media/net culture today to be presented in ACT 2. Each group's verbal exchanges are picked up by a microphone, fed into a PD patch and selectively amplified into the whole room.
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Interlude 1: Patch with the patchers
1:30 (8:30 - 10:00)
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Act 2: What's on the table?
2:00 (10:00 - 00:00)
Act 2: Alice: Coded rabbit holes. Spoken word and speech synthesis
[ The script is interrogated and opened up to ridicule.
The code is full of (rabbit) holes and sample transformations.]
8 groups each present their agenda.
Decision on 3 final Agenda to be made by consensual decision making.
Individuals can also present own agenda, make interventions.
A round table is formed. Groups can be faltering.
The sound patch works to accompany, give accent to or mute the speeches of participants.
--- I N T E R M I S S I O N ---
1:00 (00:00 - 01:00 )
THE LOST HOUR for transition to summer time
Act 3: Trade for power
1:30 (1:00 - 2:30)
Act 3: Jekyll and Hyde
[Jekyll software modules should dominate the room.
Time slicing and distance.
Multiple versions of the
same software are showcased]
Make a Ring: two participants who appear to have strongly opposing views enter a one-to-one debating duel.
The sound patch works to accompany, give accent to or mute the speeches of participants.
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Interlude 2: Ascend to the Throne
1:00 (2:30- 3:30)
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Act 4: The Emperor's new clothes
2:00 (3:30 - 5:30)
Act 4: H bomb simulation/audience simulation catastrophe.
[Simulation is made evident throughnoise and spatialization.
The audience is in the patch/code.]
A 30 minutes sound act commences Act 4.
Vote for a PLENUM spokesperson that can best represent proposed Agenda
Recycle the process of voting a leader in and out of power.
Possible outcome for ACT 4, a spokesperson appointed or no spokesperson to speak of.
Act 5 : Walk the dog
1:30 (5:30 - 7:00)
Act 5 Pink light
[The Thames walk.
A code graveyard.
The repository is symbolically drained.]
Post match analysis, narratives unentanglement.
At 6:50, the sun rises. A walk out.
EPILOGUE ; walk at River Thames.
