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Immeasurable? The Dance in Dance Science Saturday 23 July 'Immeasurable? The Dance in Dance Science' will aim to promote debate surrounding the interface between art and science.The cornerstone of this debate will question what can and cannot be measured in...
This Entry Was Filed in Matt Gough Blog [closed] on July 14, 2005 2:03 PM
Next on [ Cunningham's ] list of projects is a series of events to be staged at the Barbican, London, for which six British artists have been invited to contribute designs. [...] What makes this project unnerving is that Cunningham...
This Entry Was Filed in Matt Gough Blog [closed] on June 6, 2005 1:59 PM
well, the events of the day overtook me and i spent more time talking than blogging, so here is a collection of thoughts and observations from the day; hugh macleod the concept of viewing movement (gestures) as points in space...
This Entry Was Filed in Matt Gough Blog [closed] on June 2, 2005 2:00 PM
it's a little odd meeting people whom you spend most of you time reading about, or viewing / reading their work. i'm also thinking that i should have brought my camera but, if i had done there would be less...
This Entry Was Filed in Matt Gough Blog [closed] on June 1, 2005 2:01 PM
i received the details for Immeasurable? The Dance in Dance Science over the weekend. there is much work to do before then, a recent sharing of my work revealed complexities i had not observed. whilst the 'dance' audience understood the...
This Entry Was Filed in Matt Gough Blog [closed] on May 24, 2005 1:54 PM
with (most) avatar movement mark-up languages being stenographic rather than notational there is little relevant work for evaluative comparisons with Æma. the issues of developing a computer based movement notation are also different from implementing and existing (human based) movement...
This Entry Was Filed in Matt Gough Blog [closed] on May 22, 2005 1:55 PM
Without looking towards other fields with significant rigour (and creativity) computer science risks reinventing existing solutions. Of course this is true for all discipline but in CS the problem is compounded by a multiplicity of languages and computational approaches. Furthermore...
This Entry Was Filed in Matt Gough Blog [closed] on May 13, 2005 1:57 PM
linguistic models do not apply to movement in general terms but, it may be possible to apply such models to distinct domains, or individual dance work. Parsing the syntactic features of a dancework could provide rapid feature extraction for dance...
This Entry Was Filed in Matt Gough Blog [closed] on May 13, 2005 1:56 PM
sometimes it can take all day to get ready ... and now, early evening, i seem more mindful of the thoughts morning revealed. i would have liked (very much) to have attended (me)dia but am unable to, a prior engagement...
This Entry Was Filed in Matt Gough Blog [closed] on May 8, 2005 1:58 PM
kô ikite iru mo fushigi zo hana no kage this year (at least for me) hanami has come late, there are many things that have escaped my attention; now i have to go back. at times, there are too many...
This Entry Was Filed in Matt Gough Blog [closed] on April 26, 2005 1:48 PM
nothing or all - all or nothing at all, a collection of somethings from preceeding days ... rob gardener i have been revisiting conceptual art as a position from which to discuss the issue of impulse - intention - action...
This Entry Was Filed in Matt Gough Blog [closed] on April 22, 2005 1:48 PM
recent photographic work, i can share very little with you due to the usual restrictions - by-nc-nd Matthew Gough / South East Dance if you need reportage style dance images of your work drop me an email. i photograph dance...
This Entry Was Filed in Matt Gough Blog [closed] on April 12, 2005 1:52 PM
somehow a year passed by rather quickly, looking back to when it began i wasn't really sure how it would progress. but all in all it's not too shabby. i'm just a little remiss in some of the postings i...
This Entry Was Filed in Matt Gough Blog [closed] on March 30, 2005 1:46 PM
busy writing... In order to devise and evaluate the scripting notation we must gain a significant understanding of the ontology and epistemology of human movement practices. Whilst physical movement practices may not appear to have a rigorous scientific grounding, several...
This Entry Was Filed in Matt Gough Blog [closed] on January 31, 2005 1:39 PM
With robert (RoboLecturer, First Gypsy Demo), elizabeth (dimensions) and kema (via email) recently discussing motion capture it's worth expanding on the computer based notation i'm developing. motion capture (mocap) records the visual impression of movement in 3D. the computer based...
This Entry Was Filed in Matt Gough Blog [closed] on January 6, 2005 1:41 PM
Londondance.com posted two 'new' websites on the noticeboard for dance on screen/new technology (membership required), hyperchoreography.org and videodance.org.uk. networked performance and da ... nce have also flagged up hyperchoreography.org but after looking over the site i'm not very impressed. hyperchoreography...
This Entry Was Filed in Matt Gough Blog [closed] on January 3, 2005 1:44 PM
Chirstinn Whyyte's shiftwork is a good example of honestly presented digital dance / web dance. there are several works to view and the essay A node within a network: an examination of online dance work with particular reference to Motion...
This Entry Was Filed in Matt Gough Blog [closed] on January 3, 2005 1:43 PM
Tim Radford (science editor for the Guardian) has flagged up an article from the Cerebral Cortex journal; When a prima ballerina watches someone perform a pirouette, or a professional footballer watches a player bend it like Beckham, they use parts...
This Entry Was Filed in Matt Gough Blog [closed] on December 22, 2004 1:38 PM
due to my general resistance of offering much (any) working code to CMP i'm being asked 'where's the computer science?'. i have a solid reason for this, most of the work i'm reading that's claims to had an arts edge...
This Entry Was Filed in Matt Gough Blog [closed] on November 25, 2004 1:22 PM
politics and and tap-dancing all in one 'Tap Dancing into Syndication and Podcasting'; One of the people to ride the Podcasting bandwagon to fame - at least in the small world of people who care about Podcasting - is tap...
This Entry Was Filed in Matt Gough Blog [closed] on November 23, 2004 1:25 PM
some notes that may shed some light on a prior post. i'm working for a computer based notation that embeds the knowledge about a particular movement as well as the geometry. most computer based movemnt notations are inarticulate, i hope...
This Entry Was Filed in Matt Gough Blog [closed] on November 23, 2004 1:23 PM
for a weekends work i would rather have the physical movement, but still, this is at least something. i'm not going to bore you with a detailed explanation, when i have it worked out in more detail i will give...
This Entry Was Filed in Matt Gough Blog [closed] on November 22, 2004 1:27 PM
as you can imagine research students at cmp are given a computer for personal use. normally this is a desktop, but i asked for a laptop due to the fact that i would have to be 'out and about' as...
This Entry Was Filed in Matt Gough Blog [closed] on November 18, 2004 1:29 PM
in sci-art projects there is often talk of developing a shared language in which work can be discussed. such a concept has been central to my work at UEA due to the nature of my studies (computer science). however rather...
This Entry Was Filed in Matt Gough Blog [closed] on November 16, 2004 1:30 PM
'Movement is a displacement or change of position, even if it cannot be defined as such' - Merleau-Ponty motion is central to dance, be it sensed, perceived or implied. this is the issue central to human movement simulation (HMS), at...
This Entry Was Filed in Matt Gough Blog [closed] on November 10, 2004 1:32 PM
i've been neglecting my practice, with all this reading, problem solving and abstracted analysis there has been little time for motion. this is partly due to the lack of space, having no ready access to a studio is restrictive. when...
This Entry Was Filed in Matt Gough Blog [closed] on November 7, 2004 1:33 PM
from sheila, via communitydance.org The Chair of National Youth Dance Trust, Susannah Simons, today announces that following a review of its operations trading under the name National Youth Dance Company, National Youth Dance Trust, with the support of Arts Council...
This Entry Was Filed in Matt Gough Blog [closed] on November 4, 2004 1:37 PM
it's been while, i really didn't expect uea to be how it is. but that's good, a curve ball here and there. all the reading and isolated practice i'm doing has got me listening to more music, it's an odd...
This Entry Was Filed in Matt Gough Blog [closed] on October 31, 2004 1:15 PM
it has been there a while but due to some 'mistakes' i have not pointed out my xdsn papaer for body space technology journal. if you want to have a read of Notation Reloaded: eXtensible Dance Scripting Notation please goto...
This Entry Was Filed in Matt Gough Blog [closed] on October 22, 2004 1:17 PM
starting going back to uni is different from what i expected, i guess thats always the case 3rd time round (yep it sounds silly even to me, third time, eternal student !?!) however, everything seems to be progressing well. i'm...
This Entry Was Filed in Matt Gough Blog [closed] on October 18, 2004 1:18 PM
so here i am at uea via progression (the vivid seminar) and things have started of all multi modal. Whilst issues such as office space and computers draw themselves out, the work i am here to to speeds ahead, seemingly...
This Entry Was Filed in Matt Gough Blog [closed] on October 5, 2004 1:21 PM
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones" [John Cage] the road to integrating new / emergent technologies with dance (to extend existing cannons and develop new forms) is long challenging, with...
This Entry Was Filed in Matt Gough Blog [closed] on September 24, 2004 1:09 PM
interaction design students come up with some neat toys (and more), I wonder what you would get if you asked them for something that involved and encouraged dance or dance making? perhaps we should just give choreographers toys to make...
This Entry Was Filed in Matt Gough Blog [closed] on September 21, 2004 1:10 PM
got myself a gmail account, big thanks to Cheah Chu Yeow who sent me the invite. now I can get all those 4mb pdf's of thesis and papers sent to me directly, neato! so I got it wrong, Article19 does...
This Entry Was Filed in Matt Gough Blog [closed] on September 4, 2004 1:11 PM
You like watching dance analysing it and writing about it, I watch dance because I like bodies moving in space I think you have to wake up, there are 1000's of dancers dancing everyday to full houses of appreciative audiences...
This Entry Was Filed in Matt Gough Blog [closed] on September 3, 2004 1:12 PM
Although I agree with aspects of the recent article19 editorial 'dance goes insane' i'm not convinced the 'Logan's Run' solution will have the desired effect. Cutting funding from established artists will only advance 'new' dance so far, at some stage...
This Entry Was Filed in Matt Gough Blog [closed] on September 2, 2004 1:13 PM
it's been one of those weeks, busy, busy, busy... we (niki sheila and myself) were running a youth dance summer school. it all seemed to go well, lots of happy people and parents. I look forward to doing it again...
This Entry Was Filed in Matt Gough Blog [closed] on August 21, 2004 1:08 PM
Vanessa is taking some great pictures, I find it very rare that people take decent pictures of persons that have a African decent. the skin tones always seem to be out. but not here I especially like this image....
This Entry Was Filed in Matt Gough Blog [closed] on July 22, 2004 5:35 PM
because xdsn maps both bones and limbs it will not fit all avatar configuration. for ease of use and mapping two walk scripts have been created: the joint script and the limb script. Unlike xstep the two scripts exclude the...
This Entry Was Filed in Matt Gough Blog [closed] on July 20, 2004 5:36 PM
XSTEP is an xml-based markup language for embodied agents based on the scripting language STEP. in the words of the creators it is 'developed on the formal semantics of dynamic logic'. The implementation and design of XSTEP is indicative of...
This Entry Was Filed in Matt Gough Blog [closed] on July 15, 2004 5:37 PM
low level scripting (compound actions) are an important aspect of xdsn development. the ability to specify an instructions such as 'turn left and walk five paces' has a clear advantage when using speech to text processing and 'new user' functionality....
This Entry Was Filed in Matt Gough Blog [closed] on July 14, 2004 5:39 PM
it seems that europe is the place to be at the moment, with impulsetanz and interaktionslabor i would rather be out there than over here. meanwhile i sit down and write, code and randomly get up and dance around the...
This Entry Was Filed in Matt Gough Blog [closed] on July 11, 2004 5:40 PM
I have been busy on the dt list, but am thinking that after the post I am working on I will watch again. there are many different reasons for this decision, none of which I wish to engage in here...
This Entry Was Filed in Matt Gough Blog [closed] on June 28, 2004 1:48 PM
So many things to do, so much on my mind.. i'm writing up a technical sketch whilst it's in my mind. I need to get it out there reasonably soon so I can leave it and move on. oddly enough...
This Entry Was Filed in Matt Gough Blog [closed] on June 24, 2004 1:50 PM
Often, when I have discussed my system for autonomous dancing avatars, it has been suggested that it will only result in random chaos. However, although my solution is randomly seeded it is not a chaotic system, but a complex adaptive...
This Entry Was Filed in Matt Gough Blog [closed] on June 10, 2004 1:50 PM
after a silent blogging week normal service resumes, or something like that. I spent most of last week preparing for an interview, and will spend most of this week catching up on work I put to the side. oh well...
This Entry Was Filed in Matt Gough Blog [closed] on May 24, 2004 1:09 PM
some events that occured on my birthday: 427 BC - birth of Plato, ancient Greek philosopher (d. 347 BC) 1904 - birth of Fats Waller, pianist (d. 1943) 1927 - Charles Lindbergh completes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight. 1932...
This Entry Was Filed in Matt Gough Blog [closed] on May 21, 2004 1:10 PM
sheila was thumbing through yesterday's guardian and found this.. Impact Evaluation Officer: Arts & Humanities Research Board Job description This new post has been established to develop and implement the Board's strategy for evaluating the impact and value of arts...
This Entry Was Filed in Matt Gough Blog [closed] on May 16, 2004 1:11 PM
this was in the guardian on thursday; This is what scientists do: write papers, and pull them apart to make sure the findings are robust. We look for flaws in the experimental methods that may cause flaws in the results,...
This Entry Was Filed in Matt Gough Blog [closed] on May 15, 2004 1:12 PM
the example svg I gave in my last post had about 10400 lines of code. that single image had enough data for a full xdsn score so I will show some transformations form a simple svg. the example below has...
This Entry Was Filed in Matt Gough Blog [closed] on May 13, 2004 1:14 PM
when visiting michael and davide the subject of fractal choreography was raised. there wasn't the chance to talk about this more in depth but I has been on my mind ever since. I have always been uncomfortable with claims of...
This Entry Was Filed in Matt Gough Blog [closed] on May 11, 2004 1:15 PM
the mail i posted to dtz had some interesting replies, you can examine them at the dtz list archive here. [fixed link] the archive is updated at regular intervals so you can track progresion there. I have an interview for...
This Entry Was Filed in Matt Gough Blog [closed] on May 10, 2004 1:18 PM
been in the studio to get ready for my writing working hard for change, new perspectives. recently completed a paper about xdsn and submitted it to a journal for review with a view to publication, 4000 words on xdsn, and...
This Entry Was Filed in Matt Gough Blog [closed] on May 6, 2004 1:20 PM
-- this is an email i sent to the dance technology list server -- the eMerge scripting language is rule based with commands using everyday language. it seems to have good handling for multimedia and cueing, but there seems to...
This Entry Was Filed in Matt Gough Blog [closed] on May 6, 2004 1:19 PM
1st arabesque - benesh notation, laban notation and xdsn not that you would [probably] want to use xdsn for this but to show that it can be done, and how it could look. it's also a good test of what...
This Entry Was Filed in Matt Gough Blog [closed] on April 27, 2004 2:35 PM
Some notes in response to questions: [& personal perspectives] if you wish to make detailed notations to describe a specific event, the body at rest [start and end] must be defined. transitions should be described in nested tags detailing all...
This Entry Was Filed in Matt Gough Blog [closed] on April 26, 2004 2:41 PM
before i post the machine readable dance notation file i will explain some aspects of the file format, the xdsn file format uses xml and svg: xml [eXtensible Markup Language] is used to define the score and written content svg...
This Entry Was Filed in Matt Gough Blog [closed] on April 25, 2004 2:43 PM
Example of handwritten xdsn score a large view [1500 x 1500 pixels - 56kb gif in a popup window] here: xdsn score example [try printing it out if too large for your screen] example is two bars long and has...
This Entry Was Filed in Matt Gough Blog [closed] on April 22, 2004 2:51 PM
When Sandra Aberkalns notated Artifact II by William Forsythe she used colour to define: structured improvisations [tasks] choreography [consistent directives] choreographic directives open to dancer choice and referenced a multimedia cd-rom via an adaptation of the laban notation score [read...
This Entry Was Filed in Matt Gough Blog [closed] on April 20, 2004 2:55 PM
extensible dance script notation [xdsn] xdsn is a dance notation system designed for speed of notation ease of use notation of impulse, scripts, comments and concepts planning and development of dance works documenting choreographers working practice archival of dances for...
This Entry Was Filed in Matt Gough Blog [closed] on April 18, 2004 2:58 PM
this is a list of proposed tags, not a final version. what's not listed; toes and fingers [numbered attributes of the hand and foot elements; eg m1, m2 etc] syntax for hand written scores / notation, syntax rules for both...
This Entry Was Filed in Matt Gough Blog [closed] on April 11, 2004 3:02 PM
lets break it down; we have the scripting and the scripting notation [with hand written and machine readable formats of both]. the implementation of the score is the scripting, the xml based syntax the notation. scripting: michael klein proposed that...
This Entry Was Filed in Matt Gough Blog [closed] on April 10, 2004 3:08 PM
goto http://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/QRIO/ choose the flash option, skip the intro and to see the dancing choose the 'qrio the capabilities' option- 'qirio the genisis' also shows the robot moving- i'll comment on this all later don't forget to look at the...
This Entry Was Filed in Matt Gough Blog [closed] on April 6, 2004 3:11 PM
dynamics is the force, kinematics is the motion - I have already discussed motion description in 'pitch, roll, yaw, angle of axis' with the impulse attribute [1], the dynamics / force is described using laban's effort terms with the dynamics...
This Entry Was Filed in Matt Gough Blog [closed] on April 6, 2004 3:10 PM
rather like google's gmail the date of my posting seems to have left many a little bemused. however in my own odd way i was actually being serious. you may well have been thrown off by how it works in...
This Entry Was Filed in Matt Gough Blog [closed] on April 5, 2004 3:14 PM
You've probaly noticed my eccentric posting by now, so i'll just get on with it. with a view to developing a score for the new type of notation / scripting i have been immersing myself in music notation, examples of...
This Entry Was Filed in Matt Gough Blog [closed] on April 5, 2004 3:12 PM
i've been thinking about impulse (movement conception / motor imaging), laban and kandinsky both published texts on impulse based notation in 1926 yet their work receives little attention today. the problem with impulse based notation is that you are unable...
This Entry Was Filed in Matt Gough Blog [closed] on April 1, 2004 3:15 PM
I was thinking about the kind of language that we use to describe what we do, I tend to describe myself as dance researcher working in improvisation and emergent technologies. so what does that mean? the basics: i teach improvisation,...
This Entry Was Filed in Matt Gough Blog [closed] on March 29, 2004 2:11 PM
Ohio State University [osu] and the Dance Notation Bureau [dnb] have announced a conference / workshop investigating "An Intelligent Software Program for Dance Notation ... a program that contains information about the symbols placed on the page would allow for...
This Entry Was Filed in Matt Gough Blog [closed] on March 28, 2004 2:26 PM
