Guru Session #21: Dance-Tech Archaeology!

Join us on Thursday June 30th at 6pm CEST (12pm EDT, 9am PDT) as Isadora's creator Mark Coniglio gives us a glimpse into long ago, showing the innovative technology he handcrafted with Dawn Marie Stoppiliello to fuel the works of their dance company Troika Ranch (Troika Ranch). From "SandyCam" to "MidiDancer", you'll see and hear how these devices allowed them to translate the organic into the electronic, and helped to shape the future of dance and technology.

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@eager-iguana

Yes, this program is great and is the option I prefer on PC.

@danielpineiro Many thanks for this. I today got onto another guru session about cue's and scenes which gave me a clue as to how you keep some logic running all the time, and your link will, I'm sure resolve this for me. I'm still at the 'add a bit and see stage', so a full 'show' is a tricky thing to conceptualize for me.

I like to have my 'ducks in a row' as it where before I setout, which is probably not the way to use Isadora, but it's all good knowledge. I'm a bit blown away buy what can be done with this system, it's staggering!

Thanks again, now what was that next guru session.... :-)

@juriaan

You are correct. I didn't notice that. It came automatically from the Facebook creator backend. I'll have to watch for that in the future.
Its fixed now.

https://howlround.com/reverse-...

"Reverse-Engineering Zoom with Isadora

Site-Specific Performance for the Internet

04 January 2021

Jared Mezzocchi has been systematically exploring what Zoom and the editing program Isadora can offer theatre practitioners during the pandemic. He has been working in the field for over a decade and has explored it from multiple points of view—designer, director, playwright, artistic director. As a theatre educator, he launched an MFA program at University of Maryland in projection design, and he recently designed and co-directed Russian Troll Farm, the highly acclaimed Zoom theatre production. We Zoomed in November to talk about the production, how to reverse-engineer Zoom, Isadora as the way forward, and more."

Thanks for your help, I use the actor smoother and so far moving my sphere is smoother. Thanks again and see you soon. Thierry.

@nandada said:

I'd like to know if there is a way to capture a still from the Vimeo stream using the same actor used in this tutorial to mix the still and moving image in the effects mixer to create a mask.

 Can you use the Capture Stage to Picture actor to grab a still image of the stage? The picture then becomes available to the Picture Player actor allowing you to use that still as a background?

Best Wishes,
Mark

@mark great session, although using MIDI in Isadora for quite a while, you can always learn. Was working last year on a project with a brainsensor connected to piano and drone synthesizers in Reason. Although a EEG brainsensor as such is a simple controller, it needs a lot of handling which is controlled in Isadora. Also the sound triggering and musical evolution, related to brainwave intensity and brain state are managed by Isadora. The baseline is that no other physical intervention is taking place and that the resulting sound is unique for its moment in time. Fun :-)

@woland thanks for posting this - i have so much to catch up with in isadora 3 !

@bennnid said:

I thought It was because of my projector definition

 What is your projector definition? The higher the resolution the better (obviously) but also understand that the larger the image you're trying to project on a surface, the more visible the individual pixels will be. 

@smoon

No problem :)

This was a very interesting session, as usual !

I never made soft edge with 2 or more projectors, but I remember that the position and the distance between the 2 projectors has to be the more precise possible, even if Isadora let user to make changes through Izzymap and Stage Setup.
I found in my notes this drawing which explains how to calculate the best set up, if it's useful for someone.

Best wishes.
Clement

Soft edge_distance VP.pdf

@astrid

Remove the space between ISADORA_FLOAT_PARAM and (

So the second one ;) The first one is your example

// ISADORA_FLOAT_PARAM (noise_level, noil, 0.0, 1.0, 0.5, "This is the text that helps"); // ISADORA_FLOAT_PARAM(noise_level, noil, 0.0, 1.0, 0.5, "This is the text that helps");

@vjmc said:

Out of curiosity, has there been any development on the OSC web socket that I believe was mentioned in the session

As of now, no. I am focused back on the main Isadora app at the moment. If we can roll that into the fall release, we will. You can read more about our plans in this forum thread.

Best Wishes,
Mark

@juriaan

ah, thanks Juriaan, I missed that. I use OSCrouter a lot, which is a great tool, but still often need other bits and pieces to set up with Isadora when OSCing out of ETC world.

Thanks for the answer.

Have a nice day

Célio

Dear Community,

Please find this new "guru session" directory with viewing and download links for all of the guru sessions. We will be updating this list as we add guru sessions in the future.

Guru Sessions Directory Knowledge Base article.

Best Wishes,
Mark

Thanks to Jan van Hapert for the new "guru" backdrop!

<3 Mark

@mark

Belated thanks for this session, and thanks so much for answering my questions. Really appreciated. Look forward to seeing you again when the Guru sessions resume!

My 3D ropes actor assignement.
Not sure if replying here is the way to post an assignement, but here it is. I tried to mimik watching algae move whilst floating above them with a snorkel. Summer feelings came up.

I've got a bit of trouble in properly "repelling" the algae with the mousewatcher (possibly I got lost somewhere in rotating spaces). Anyway it kind of works.

Older machines may struggle a bit, mine almost hits the 50% load.

Cheers to all of you,  (justy noticed that "all of you" sounds pretty similar to "I love you" ...  😘  )

guru7_Assignement_Baal.zip