martinvahi9

Dear Madonna, ladies and gentlemen, I noticed some interviews on YouTube, where Madonna describes her preferences to advance Her skills in different forms of performance, e.g. dance, movies, theater. It seems to me, that unlike many other artists, Madonna seem to evolve, move along with new opportunities for performances. My sales pitch for this blog, discussion thread, is that if a top notch artist like Madonna took her time to share her observations about show related technology (e.g. sound-effects, computer-effects, stage technology, social re-arrangements that change over time, etc.) then other, non-artists, might contribute some thoughts that are new to her. It would be a win-win situation: x) IT-guys like me can get to know, how top notch artists like Madonna see various technologies from their artistic angle. x) Madonna and people related to her will probably get some alternative ideas, feedback, that they otherwise would not get. As a treat, temptation, I offer the following thought. -----thought--description--start------ A subconscious sales pitch for a concert is the pleasure that the audience gets from the concert. May be the "stage" as such is a bit out-dated concept. May be in stead of some higher area at one end of a hall/square a slightly higher area might reside in the middle of the hall. The protective barrier might be formed from a small, artificial, pool that is lighted up by disco lights or screens that are submerged under the water. The "zoom-screens" might be at all "4 walls" of the hall. The artist might offer some dance instructions that Madonna offered at one of her Facebook album introductions. That way the concert might be far more immersive than the standard version, where people are expected to stare at one end of the hall. An interesting video effect might be real-time animation of computer game characters. The artist might wear small, costume-integrated, detectors so that the game character always mimics the moves of the artist. The game characters might be even "in the background" of the artist (Madonna), forming an "army of dancers". Another video-effect might be a real-time video of Madonna on the screen, but multiplied and mirrored, so that whenever she waves, a whole "army of Madonnas" waves on screens. People, who wear Google Goggles, might have even more virtual experiences, StarTrek like visual effects. The fact is that music and visual effects are easily accessible at home, from YouTube, in computer games. Therefore, a concert has to be something more than just superior music and visual effects and fine live artists. Non-verbal communication with other live people might be something that only concerts can offer, PROVIDED THAT CONCERTS ARE ORGANIZED DIFFERENTLY THAN THE CURRENT, pay-for-the-ticket-and-stare type of concerts. May be a concert might be a place, where the artist is just aiding people to be "in trance". May be the arrangement of a concert might facilitate interaction between people. May be there might be some dance partner finding technology, e.g. some cheap accelerometer might be part of a wrist-band based ticket and people, who have similar height and who rock their hands similarly enough, are directed to meet each other. The height of a person might be probabilistically derived from the length of the person's arm. The length of an arm might be statistically guessed from the accelerations that the wrist-band-ticket has. May be, just like emoticons, the :-) and :-D there might be "dance-icons". The first artist to popularize them "TAKES THE FLOOR". What might be the opposite to the "f_ck You" gesture? How to express that gesture with a whole body? Aren't artists just "Disk Jockeys that REMIX CULTURE", regardless of the form of art (music, movie, play in the theater, sculpture, design of buildings and clothing, etc.) -----thought--description--end-------- Thank You for reading this comment. :-)