About the project

This is the blog of my diploma project, acting audio.
In this project I will explore the use of sound as an interactive element in theater. Some key questions are:

• In what ways can interactive sound be used in theater? What role can it play?
• How can sound influence the way a theater play is interpreted?
• How does an interactive sound system influence the actor's process?
• What does an interactive sound design do to the audience's experience of a theater performance?

Through this spring term I will research, test, learn, prototype, think, watch, listen, write, scratch my head, test something else, prototype again, and so forth. Hopefully, this will result in a sound design for a theater play, where interaction between sound and actors (and perhaps audience) is used in a meaningful way.

I'll be working together with two theater productions. The main work will be for an extract of "Mitt lille en-hund-show" by Kristin Aa. Opdan, based on texts by Gro Dahle. Directed by Kristin Aa. Opdan. This production is to be performed live as a part of my final project presentation. In addition to this, I'll be working with a production at Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo (KHIO): an extract of "Emigrantene" by Slavomir Mrozek. Directed by Kristina Kjeldsberg, scenography by Lisa Jørgensen. This production is to be performed at KHIO in april, as a student project in direction and scenography. For my project, this will be an extended case study.

I'll be using Max/MSP/Jitter as the main software tool in this project. At the moment, I'm learning how...