Title Information
Title
Schaulust: A Study in Light and Sound
Name: Personal
Name Part
Cetilia, Mark J
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Role Term: Text
creator
Origin Information
Copyright Date
2016
Physical Description
Extent
26, 242 p.
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born digital
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Thesis (Ph.D. -- Brown University (2016)
Name: Personal
Name Part
Rovan, Joseph
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Director
Name: Personal
Name Part
Winkler, Todd
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Reader
Name: Personal
Name Part
Osborn, Ed
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Role Term: Text
Reader
Name: Personal
Name Part
Greenlee, Shawn
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Reader
Name: Corporate
Name Part
Brown University. Music: Computer Music and Multimedia
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sponsor
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theses
Abstract
“Schaulust: A Study in Light and Sound” is an investigation into the development of a new audiovisual performance platform called Schaulust. This platform pairs custom hardware and software designed specifically for use in real-time improvisation with stroboscopic light, robotically-controlled mirrors, and large, optical-quality cast-glass prismatic lenses. The resulting performances are full-body experiences that embrace the base pleasures afforded by the generation and manipulation of light and sound as physical objects, evolving over time from the hypnotic to the chaotic. The work is grounded in a firm foundation of experimental film, video, and the performance of electroacoustic music, and is informed by the histories of structural / materialist film, paracinematic performance, noise, and techno. This document is an exploration of the Schaulust platform and its use in the author’s dissertation piece, a site-specific performance that took place on November 14, 2014 in the basement of Brown’s Student Center. The written work presents an overview of the project’s foundations and essential characteristics from artistic and technical perspectives, as well as an examination of its historical precedents and formative influences, concluding with an analysis of the dissertation performance, a discussion of future directions, and detailed documentation.
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Multimedia
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Structural
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Materialist
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Film
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Stroboscopic Light
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Paracinematic Performance
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Audiovisual
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Schaulust
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Fraktur
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Electroacoustic
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Improvisation
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Structured Improvisation
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Analog
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Digital
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Hybrid
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Experimental
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Techno
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Computer music
Subject (FAST) (authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast", valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1028916")
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Multimedia (Art)
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Topic
Performance
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Fraktur art
Subject (FAST) (authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast", valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/968306")
Topic
Improvisation (Music)
Subject (FAST) (authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast", valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/907363")
Topic
Electronic music
Subject (FAST) (authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast", valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1038354")
Topic
Noise
Identifier: DOI
https://doi.org/10.7301/Z0WM1BBB
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20160629
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eng
Language Term: Text
English
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dissertations