Westerside, Andrew and Hobday, Nicki and Lees, Gillian and Petralia, Peter S. (2007) Whisper. [Show/Exhibition]
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Whisper is a visually decadent, aurally immersive performance that asks the audience to question ‘what is real’ in a world of increasing technological sophistication. Each audience member is given a set of headphones through which they hear the voices of three live performers narrating a fictional walk through a fictional city. Obscured behind a cinematic screen, the performers are seen as shadows, silhouettes or in stark clarity, creating a fully immersive sound environment to accompany their narration. Not only are the three performers narrating a walk that switches between the ‘here and now’ of the story and ‘dream-world’ of memory, but they are also creating a fully immersive sound environment through the use of a sound technique called foley. Foley is a technique employed in film, where a sound artist adds sounds to a film after the film has been shot, thereby creating a hyper-realistic world of sound for the film.
| Item Type: | Show/Exhibition |
|---|---|
| Additional Information: | Whisper is a visually decadent, aurally immersive performance that asks the audience to question ‘what is real’ in a world of increasing technological sophistication. Each audience member is given a set of headphones through which they hear the voices of three live performers narrating a fictional walk through a fictional city. Obscured behind a cinematic screen, the performers are seen as shadows, silhouettes or in stark clarity, creating a fully immersive sound environment to accompany their narration. Not only are the three performers narrating a walk that switches between the ‘here and now’ of the story and ‘dream-world’ of memory, but they are also creating a fully immersive sound environment through the use of a sound technique called foley. Foley is a technique employed in film, where a sound artist adds sounds to a film after the film has been shot, thereby creating a hyper-realistic world of sound for the film. |
| Keywords: | Theatre, Performance, Multimedia |
| Subjects: | W Creative Arts and Design > W440 Theatre studies |
| Divisions: | College of Arts > Faculty of Media, Humanities & Performance > Lincoln School of Performing Arts |
| Depositing User: | Andrew Westerside |
| Date Deposited: | 01 Jun 2012 10:17 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Jun 2012 10:17 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lincoln.ac.uk/id/eprint/5759 |
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