Hey everyone!
How are you? Hope you’re having a lovely week.
This week is a nice mixture or archive recording, audio and games! I think there will be somehting in here everyone will enjoy!
The Next 10 Years by Callum Berridge
£20
Until October 2030
he Next 10 Years is a durational audio experience beginning in October 2021 and ending in October 2030
Every year, from the 6-10th October, the Earth in its orbit crosses the orbital path of Comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner. When this happens, debris from the comet falls to earth as a meteor shower, known as the Draconids.
If you look up to the sky on a clear, dark night between these dates, and find the head of the Draco Constellation, a great dragon winding its way across the firmament, you might see the meteors.
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Beginning in October 2021 and ending in October 2030, The Next 10 Years is an audio story told in 10 chapters spanning 10 years, each new chapter coinciding with the advent of the annual Draconid Meteor Shower.
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Choose a ticket for any of the dates shown - 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th or 10th October 2021, or the same again in 2022.
You only need to book one ticket on one of the dates.
On the 5th October 2021, then each subsequent year, you’ll be sent a 10 minute audio file, and some instructions or provocations.
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On a clear night, you’ll find a place where you can sit back and gaze up at the stars - it might be a deckchair in your garden, you might want to take a blanket into a field, or just lay back in a local park. You’ll put your earphones in, press play, and that year’s chapter will begin...
Antony and Cleopatra by Tiago Rodrigues
free
archive
Two Portuguese choreographers – Vítor Ruiz and Sofia Dias – were chosen to impersonate Antony and Cleopatra in this adaptation, in which Tiago Rodrigues creates his own text, borrowing freely from Shakespeare’s play and Plutarch’s Parallel Lives. In this show, both actors are on stage: Sofia describes Antony’s behavior, while Vítor characterizes Cleopatra, their lines representing what each character sees, says and does, so that what is usually left off stage – the text’s didascalia – has here been integrated into the text. Likewise, characters’ feelings and emotions are not represented in each actor’s way of acting, but exteriorized through language, which means that any correspondence between words and physical behavior is denied. This aspect of the performance is slightly evocative of Mind Out, a show by the English company Station House Opera. But in Antony and Cleopatra stage directions do not lead to actions – they simply describe what is happening. Although the actors’ movements on stage are sometimes literalized, as happens at the beginning of the show, they do not usually represent particular words or events and are rather a way of dancing in which dancing is not required. Perhaps the scene that best illustrates the relation between words and movement occurs at the ending, in which words are rapidly transformed into other words in a sequence of sounds which, in Portuguese, distort each other (“tosse, tosse, má tosse, má tosse, matou-se, matou-se, meu doce”). This language game would require a good translation so that the alliteration could be preserved, something like “he coughed, coughed, was killed, killed, my kindred, kindred, kindred spirit”, and so on. While this happens, both actors are on opposite sides of the stage, fighting until they finally approach each other to die. Unlike what happens in Shakespeare’s plays, in which the final act takes place quickly, Antony and Cleopatra take their time to die, repeating each other’s name and portraying each other’s breath / death while the light slowly fades. To quote from the program notes: “That’s the idea that Plutarch himself proposes when, in the passage where he describes the way Antony flees the battle to pursue Cleopatra, he writes in a jocular but understanding tone that ‘the soul of a lover always lives in someone else’s body’”.
The Worldbuilding Trilogy by Chloe Mashiter
$5
Create worlds with constellations. Build libraries full of histories. Define a community with a phrase.
Three games (Telephone, Stellar and Library of Worlds) which can be played as standalone games or used to create settings for others.
Stellar:
a game of imagined constellations and both the folk stories and true histories that go with them. Create a world around constellations that you create, and stargaze to expand on the stories within it.
Telephone:
a game of warped, altered and misheard phrases. Discover the ever-changing proverb that defines a place and the times they're written, said or thought and create characters and scenes within the world by connecting the different moments where this proverb impacts.
Library of Worlds:
imagine books inspired by a world's birth, peak and fall. Check them out of the library and read through them to answer questions about this world, and share your discoveries through readings or book reports.
free
archive
"The Turing test (or imitation game) is a test of a machine’s ability to exhibit intelligent behaviour equivalent to, or indistinguishable from, that of a human. No machine has, as of yet, passed the Turing test." - wikipedia
Chat/Bot is an interactive, choose-your-own-adventure text game by Poltergeist that tries to both pass and fail this test. Join Rosa and Will somewhere in cyberspace, as they try to re-enter the real, breathing world.
Elektra directed by Krzysztof Warlikowski
free
archive
On his return from Troy, King Agamemnon is assassinated by his wife Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus. His daughter Electra is then consumed with the need to avenge his death. With this piece, Richard Strauss probes the psychology of a woman on the verge of madness. This first opera, in which the composer uses a libretto by the playwright Hugo von Hofmannsthal, marks the beginning of a collaboration that will last until Hofmannsthal's death.
Just a quick one to say I have my own digital show on in a few weeks time. October 1st/2nd I’m doing a show for Tender Absence called Sunday Morning. I’ll do a bigger call out for it next week but just wanted to giver a little heads up. Not may tickets for each show so book soon!
Hope you enjoy this week selection and find something you love
Talk soon
Josh xx