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A video of the 2002 OBIEwinning production of Racine’s Phèdre, set in a mobile modernist landscape of sliding Plexiglass panels, omnipresent monitors, hidden cameras, and badminton…
‘This blend of ironic seriousness, heightened theatricality and multimedia ballet has developed into one of the sharpest of theatrical instruments’ The Village Voice
Monday 12 August 12 noon1 hour 15 minutes
New Media Scotland
Tickets £4
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Three pieces on video: The Emperor Jones is a video interpretation of The Wooster Group’s originalstage production of Eugene O’Neill’s play; Today, I Must Sincerely Congratulate You is the Group’s 1991 metadocumentary of daily life in a fading performance troupe; and Rhyme ’Em to Death is a short black-and-white film from 1994 inspired by Victor Hugo’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
Tuesday 13 August 12 noon1 hour 10 minutes
New Media Scotland
Tickets £4
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Cellist Peter Gregson’s new work To Dream Again unfolds after a series of interactions between the audience and bespoke data systems. Created especially for this world premiere, these audience interactions mean that each performance develops in an entirely different way in the laboratory venue and subsequently online, where it decays until finally it can no longer be heard. Quite the matter of life and data.
Peter Gregson is equally at home collaborating with some of the most exciting musicians working today (including Gabriel Prokofiev, Daníel Bjarnason and Max Richter) as he is with world-leading technologists, ranging from the Media Lab at MIT, Microsoft Labs and his own Google-funded incubator, The Electric Creative Colab. Commissioned by New Media Scotland, To Dream Again was developed during a six-month residency.
‘pushing the classical performance envelope’ Classical Music
Monday 19 & Tuesday 20, Thursday 22 – Saturday 24 August 9.00pmNew Media Scotland
Tickets £15
1 hour approximately
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Supported by the Alt-w Fund with investment from the Centre for Design Informatics