Post 6
I am now part way through the second section of my piece. Set to the song “Lost it to trying” by Son Lux I think the lyrics in this song are crucial to the audience's understanding of the movement. “What should we do now we lost it to trying” and “give in and get out we rise in the dying” perfectly relays the concept of artificial learning to the audience's ears. A.I learns to move through iterative trial and error in other words losing and trying again, dying and rising up from that with more intelligence as per the lyrics of the song. I drew inspiration for this use of sound from Rosie Kays’ MK Ultra. A piece where, in my previous blog post I noted that, narration is used to explain turns of historical events. While my audio relies on a pre existing song, as opposed to carefully selected soundbites, I believe this more subtle approach still enhances the explanatory ability of movement
In terms of movement I am finding this piece easier to construct as the style is closer to my comfort zone. Here you can see an extract of my improvisation, the main technique I am using to generate movement.
I have created a square motif and developed it further to represent the building of the code required to teach A.I how to learn. Below i have attached clips to show this:
Once I solidify my movements following this section I will take movement from the improvisation and slice it into individual actions. Then, using accumulation, I will “rise in the dying”. I will build the motif, as though it were learning through trial and error, and fill the chorus with this growing, evolving movement. This will then be followed by a similar series of movements but on a different plane. All of the movements will be rotated ninety degrees so I am lying on the floor. With this technique I aim to focus on the error side of the trial and error process.
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