So our piece had developed in a sense that we have started to think about how music makes us feel how when we listen to a song we create a narrative in our heads.  our main criticism has been involving our choice of music is it too modern or does it fit with our piece so on this note I think we need to explore Henri Lefebvre concept of Rhythmanalysis he believes that you need to “go deeper, dig below the surface, listen closely instead of looking, reflecting the effects of a mirror” and also that “every plant, every tree has its own rhythm which is made by several leaves or flowers but each has it’s own time”  (Lefebvre,1996 p.222)  which in relation to our project is the idea that we can stay away from conventional songs and modern styles of music and use sounds that are natural within the world.  For example Cathy Berberian’s Stripsody it is not your traditional concept of music but it is still sounds and you can still respond to them in a way that will give our performance a interesting dynamic if we was to explore with different styles of music and to not just revert back to songs that we are comfortable or familiar with.

Also on the idea that we are responding to music, it allows us to go with the idea that everything we do is a performance as we respond to different situations, different people and different spaces that we are in which in its own right is a type of performance.

so last night I watched a performance at LPAC called Caramel this gave me so many ideas regarding aspects of movement that can be used within our piece. the performance was based around the idea of what choreography would taste like. this has allowed me to explore the idea of synesthesia what would emotion look like, or feel like or even smell like. the aspect that our group has chosen to focus on is how emotion can be seen via colours.  This brings me onto my next point about the art of Rasa which is associated with Indian dance. each different element within the Rasa have a set colour;

•  Love and Attractiveness are represented by light green
• laughter, mirth and comedy represented by white
• fury represented by red
• compassion and tragedy represented by grey
• Disgust represented by the colour blue
• horror and terror represented by the colour  black
•  heroic is represented by a golden colour
• wonder and amazement represented by yellow
• peace is represented by white

[Archive.org. 2014. Natya Shastra of Bharata Muni Volume 2 : Bharata Muni : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive. [online] Available at: https://archive.org/details/NatyaShastraOfBharataMuniVolume2 [Accessed: 13 Mar 2014].

from researching about the Rasa we have decided that we are going to create a narrative within the songs we pick and chose colours to represent the emotion that is being portrayed within the song, this is a sense of synesthesia you will be able to hear the colours and see them it will link two sensory pathways.

Through exploring the concept of Nowhere as being  Now here it brings me to think about the shops within Grantham,  we may be in the middle of no where familiar but we are here in the now, so our performance will be appropriate to the here and now of the time such as Gravity Fields itself. But what is place and space… Martin Heidegger refers to it as ” space is a nowhere concept, place is something we have constructed from space to mean something”

Developing on our previous ideas as a group the idea of using mirrors in a way to explore the boundaries of performance and site specific itself has developed more in a sense that we have researched different tricks or lets say illusions that can be used to create the idea of anti-gravity  and also how projecting on to the mirror surfaces would allow us to explore the boundaries of performance such as performing on the ceiling. the idea of core vs core is also a good way to explore these boundaries.  over the next week I shall be exploring different ways to progress from just projection, and to find ways into the technology needed to create our illusions of  defying gravity.