Matt Gough Blog [closed]: onwards

Tuesday, Oct 5 2004, 01:21

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 dragging me along.

i must admit that my dance experience is already making itself known and useful. i hadn't expected my practical knowledge to come up so soon but, the unexpected is what i seem to thrive on.

during my recent reading i have found many papers that describe various dance / notation / animation systems and almost all of them are flawed, not only in the concepts of dance and movement they present but also in the analysis of dance notations (ie labanotation) and choreography itself.

i can see myself teaching dance class here to further the understanding of movement concepts.

from the computer science point of view I'm clawing my way through as much info as i can that relates to the task ahead of me and considering the practical relations and applications.

some observations that seem to be missing from the theoretical cannon;

• animation is not choreorgraphy
• notation is abstracted rather than encoded movement
• defining translations (linking motion) is an essentail part of any technique and movement per se (self or externaly defined)
• motion is abstract and context sensitive, no one motion 'means' anything, it is simply 'motion'.
• intention is differnt from impulse, niether may be observable in the resulting motion.
• movent notation must be compleate enough to discibe any motion with great detail, composite motions can use abstractions.
• there are no fixed points in space [Einstein via Cunningham]

there are many more.. but i won't bore you now..

• Immeasurable
• the joy of sets
• motionbound notes
• motionbound one
• Immeasurable
• komusō
• PGR day thoughts
• DDV part one
• tick tock
• Somei Yoshino