radiohead used jitter for their performance.
ideoteque sampled 4 chords from paul lansky's composition he made in the 70s.
for my thesis, supposedly the articulated culmination of what i've learned at ITP, i'm thinking about doing a dance performance w/ interactive video elements. basically, i guess you can think of it as one of those artsy dance performance with abstract visuals, etc. etc.
in a nutshell, it's going to be a story of creation mythology, supernatural power of goddesses or witches who control natural elements: wind, water, fire, etc. i'm working with a friend who is a trained tap dancer and another who teaches south indian traditional dance. the vague idea that i had for the performance was that their rhythm, the movement of the feet, the sound of the tap shoes, the stomping will control the video signal. the different dance styles are assigned different elements. say the tap dancer controls fire and each time a specific pattern of tapping occurs, it triggers the video signal of shooting flames. or a the stomping of the feet from the indian dancer causes kites to fly.
something like that.
the kind of live performance i enjoy doing is theater, something with humans on stage telling a story. and the story should be receivable to the audience, not just some abstract piece, say about human existential being in comparison to that of a shiny rock. before coming to itp, one of my goal was to be able to integrate technology with theater performance.
my goal for this particular class is to learn jitter enough so that i can make this happen. as a case study, i'm planning to video my friend tapping in front of a green screen and chromakey video signal so that it's seemingly interactive to her movement, using sound and/or video tracking. by the end of this class i want to be able to understand the different elements that go into making video signal interactive to body movement, specifically dance performance. possibly build somekind of physical interface controller. (but that's like the reach-reach-goal)
a bit too vague to articulate, but i hope this is enough of a general direction.
blue screen predates colored film.
blue screen was used for film compositing before there were colored film.