DOWNSTREAM is a collaborative process-oriented performance and ensemble integrating dance, performance, audio, video and streaming media by the faculty and students at California State University San Marcos. Through experiential workshops, we develope an approach to dance/movement based on its relationship to audio (microphones are attached to the dancers or props). The work consists of realtime, ambient, amplified and sampled audio produced by the dancers, performers, mixers and muscians. For the live performance we integrate realtime, closed circuit video. The work is performed in front of an audience and is also streamed live, to a virtual, listening audience. DOWNSTREAM MEDIA, 12/7/04 excerpt.

DOWNSTREAM DESERT is being developed in response to our local Southern California desert and the border with Mexico. We are taking into consideration the following as we develop the work:

• Exploring scale and its effects on the viewer.
• How the body is configured in the desert through the use of scale in sound, image and performance and through recordings, satellite photos, and video images
• Utilizing sound as a way to image space
  
  Ensemble Principles (vitae):
  Tony Allard
  Bill Bradbury
  Kristine Diekman
  Karen Schaffman

DOWNSTREAM DESERT::Proposal
For the 6th Manifestation of Electronic Art, we are proposing a live performance and audio webcast. The performance will consist of video projection, dancers/performers with microphones attached, mixed amplified live and prerecorded audio. We would like to have assistance in finding a space (used or abandoned) in which the performance can take place.
Technical requirements::

• An appropriate site
• High-speed internet access
• Electrical Power
• Stereo speakers with subwoofer
• Video projection (5200 lumins if possible)
• 24 Channel Mixer
• 12 wireless lav mics

Video Excerpts (quicktime required)

ensemble: Tony Allard, Bill Bradbury, Brian Desjean, Kristine Diekman, Richard Hunt, Neal Lett, Mark Schmidt, Karen Schaffman, Wesley Thatcher, Theresa Thompson

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