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Its snowing. School is closed. Class is canceled. While you hunker down inside you can peep some dance technology in this interview with Gideon Obarzanek, artistic director of Chunky Move. The video has lots of great performance footage and is well worth a look. Thanks to dance-tech.net for this content. Read a critique of the interview here.

PART ONE


PART TWO

ReGenerating the Field

Matt Gough is a generous dancer, theorist and researcher. Though he writes with a critical voice he does so with clarity and in the end it benefits us all. Matt has taken particular interest in the snippets of code posted this week on dance machines as they overlap with fundamental mathematical concepts he has been discussing with his class. After inviting me to write a guest post for his blog quodlibet I collected my thoughts on the purpose of these mini math machines. The post is called math skills.

Matt helps us understand that creating the infidel heteroglossia that is dance-tech "requires a synthesis, and re-framing of knowledge from many fields." Since this is a collaborative process, even in our solos we partner and bear each other's weight. Thank you Matt for your generosity in sharing your dancing and thinking.

Oscillation

Integration is fundamental. We can use it to model differential relationships such as those producing harmonic oscillations.

Respecanize.
max v2;
#N vpatcher 226 181 643 397;
#P origin 4 -4;
#P window setfont "Sans Serif" 9.;
#P window linecount 1;
#P message 4 21 23 196617 20.;
#P newex 4 69 49 196617 pipe 0. 9;
#N vpatcher 10 59 610 459;
#P window setfont "Sans Serif" 9.;
#P newex 91 146 48 196617 pack 1 2;
#P newex 129 111 27 196617 int;
#P newex 81 81 58 196617 t i i b;
#P newex 81 54 92 196617 scale -5. 5. 0 128;
#P message 91 170 309 196617 scrollrect 1 0 255 255 -1 0 \, linesegment 253 \$2 254 \$1 255 0 0;
#P inlet 81 34 15 0;
#P outlet 91 202 15 0;
#P connect 1 0 3 0;
#P connect 3 0 4 0;
#P fasten 4 0 6 0 86 134 96 134;
#P connect 6 0 2 0;
#P connect 2 0 0 0;
#P connect 4 2 5 0;
#P fasten 5 0 6 1 134 134 134 134;
#P fasten 4 1 5 1 110 104 151 104;
#P pop;
#P newobj 61 165 55 196617 p draw;
#P user lcd 129 47 273 122 1 0 1 0 0;
#P newex 4 48 52 196617 * -0.001;
#P newex 61 48 27 196617 + 0.;
#P newex 61 69 27 196617 f;
#P newex 61 110 27 196617 + 0.;
#P newex 61 131 27 196617 f;
#P fasten 0 0 4 0 66 157 1 157 1 44 9 44;
#P connect 8 0 4 0;
#P connect 4 0 7 0;
#P fasten 7 0 3 0 9 93 57 93 57 41 66 41;
#P connect 3 0 2 0;
#P connect 2 0 1 0;
#P connect 1 0 0 0;
#P fasten 0 0 6 0 66 157 66 157;
#P fasten 2 0 3 1 66 92 97 92 97 42 83 42;
#P fasten 0 0 1 1 66 157 92 157 92 105 83 105;
#P fasten 6 0 5 0 66 184 118 184 118 42 134 42;
#P pop;

Entropy

Entropy is a measure of how free a system of movement is. If there is a dance in which the dancer may occupy only one state then said dance has zero entropy, there are no surprises. As the number of possible states increases so does the entropy, the number of options increases. The mathematical definition is given below.
H is the entropy
i is the index of states
n is the number of states
p is the probability of inhabiting each state

max v2;
#N vpatcher 468 84 675 539;
#P origin -29 -43;
#P window setfont "Sans Serif" 9.;
#P message 80 51 23 196617 1 1;
#P message 41 99 31 196617 10 1;
#P message 47 76 23 196617 3 1;
#P message 46 52 23 196617 2 1;
#P flonum 68 400 96 9 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 221 221 221 222 222 222 0 0 0;
#P message 83 121 52 196617 1 1 1 1 1;
#P message 82 99 43 196617 1 1 1 1;
#P message 79 30 17 196617 1;
#P message 38 121 34 196617 1 2 7;
#P message 81 76 34 196617 1 1 1;
#P newex 68 368 27 196617 f;
#P newex 68 345 27 196617 + 0.;
#P newex 68 291 47 196617 zl iter 1;
#P newex 68 312 94 196617 expr -$f1*ln($f1);
#P hidden newex 0 206 48 196617 loadbang;
#P hidden message 0 226 70 196617 scalarmode 1;
#P newex 68 271 84 196617 vexpr $f1 / $f2;
#P newex 111 229 27 196617 f;
#P newex 111 206 27 196617 + 0.;
#P newex 68 151 70 196617 t l l 0.;
#P newex 77 179 47 196617 zl iter 1;
#P hidden connect 6 0 5 0;
#P fasten 12 0 1 0 43 140 73 140;
#P fasten 19 0 1 0 46 118 73 118;
#P fasten 18 0 1 0 52 95 73 95;
#P fasten 17 0 1 0 51 73 73 73;
#P fasten 15 0 1 0 88 140 73 140;
#P fasten 14 0 1 0 87 118 73 118;
#P fasten 11 0 1 0 86 95 73 95;
#P fasten 20 0 1 0 85 73 73 73;
#P fasten 13 0 1 0 84 49 73 49;
#P connect 1 0 4 0;
#P hidden fasten 5 0 4 0 5 261 73 261;
#P connect 4 0 8 0;
#P connect 8 0 7 0;
#P connect 7 0 9 0;
#P connect 9 0 10 0;
#P connect 10 0 16 0;
#P fasten 1 1 0 0 103 174 82 174;
#P fasten 10 0 9 1 73 393 101 393 101 337 90 337;
#P fasten 1 2 9 1 133 176 167 176 167 337 90 337;
#P fasten 0 0 2 0 82 201 116 201;
#P connect 2 0 3 0;
#P fasten 3 0 2 1 116 254 144 254 144 198 133 198;
#P fasten 1 2 2 1 133 202 133 202;
#P fasten 3 0 4 1 116 266 147 266;
#P pop;

Integration

Integration is fundamental. Respecanize.

max v2;
#N vpatcher 522 173 728 301;
#P origin 28 0;
#P window setfont "Sans Serif" 9.;
#P flonum 88 23 42 9 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 221 221 221 222 222 222 0 0 0;
#P window linecount 1;
#P newex 88 49 35 196617 + 0.;
#P flonum 88 71 42 9 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 221 221 221 222 222 222 0 0 0;
#P connect 2 0 1 0;
#P connect 1 0 0 0;
#P fasten 0 0 1 1 93 93 131 93 131 44 118 44;
#P pop;

Differentiation

Differentiation is a fundamental operation. Though its been done before, it remains effective. Learn and use.

max v2;
#N vpatcher 563 104 772 266;
#P window setfont "Sans Serif" 9.;
#P flonum 82 110 35 9 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 221 221 221 222 222 222 0 0 0;
#P newex 99 83 27 196617 - 0.;
#P newex 82 51 27 196617 t f f;
#P flonum 82 28 35 9 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 221 221 221 222 222 222 0 0 0;
#P connect 0 0 1 0;
#P fasten 2 0 3 0 104 103 87 103;
#P fasten 1 1 2 0 104 76 104 76 104 76;
#P fasten 1 0 2 1 87 75 121 75;
#P pop;

Shredded

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