Reflection on second rehearsal

1. Immediate reflections (with Paulo)
1.1 It is not about the report or the place within the report, but appears to be about the man in the report.
1.2 Authenticity of the narrator has a huge bearing on the validity of this project - it is hard to accept that if an actor had read the report it would offer more than a radio style play.
1.3 It is becoming more and more difficult - as the musicians become to understand the play - to discern the disembodied from the live voices. They all appear to be coming from inside the established dimension set-up by the concept and the performance technology.
1.4 If it is not about a place - as in SFM - then is still 'theatre', by that I mean a profound seeing?
1.5 Ditto ... is it still 'inbetween' the report and its music and its theatre.

2. One week later
2.1 The wholeness of the composition is the most important element with this project. Enlarging the notion brought forward from SFM regarding the library of field recording being the composition, and its performance through random generated computer software, still valid. Here, the library is extended to include re-imaginings by the composer, and the authors voice (hinting at another dimension: the man behind the voice, behind the words), and live responses by improvising musicians.
2.2 The software development appears to be allowing many ways through this wholeness exposing for exploration all manner of possibilities, that perhaps would never have been considered if 'composed' or fixed in traditional ways - or 'vogue for profundity' as Cage once said. This Ariande thread through each performance will be different each time allowing a huge variation in the experience of the audience imaginings - an ideation.
2.3 Another way of thinking about this project might be: if we take the sum imagination of all the people that have read a particular book, or have seen a particular film, or are sitting in the audience waiting for a performance of CJA, then this is the territory that this composition attempts to explore. And: if this is the case, then what is the place for linear narrative exploration? The best technology for this would be a book.

3. Further development
1. Do we need more of Alistair's vox? Current = 25%
2. What would happen if there were multiple voices in the book ... say King Lear?