Mat Gough - Hyperchoreography

I've been looking at Mat Gough's Blog again to try to see how he can fit into both my dissertation and the Network Mashup work we've been exploring.

The following quote from his blog fits with the work of Cunningham and Cage that I've been looking at in the use of chance within a rigid structure. Also the multi-directional links he describes is what we're trying to create with the tagged data from our system.

"in a networked environment where all links are revealed and 'new' links can added by users, multi directional - two way connection enhance the perception of intertexts. no longer must the author use chance procedures to disrupt their unconscious constructions of meaning, the provision of a mechanism to explore, expand and visualise the intertexts of their authored text performs the same function."

- Mat Gough - networked choreography - ii

Mat Gough says previously to the above quote:

if the initial conditions (the movement corpus) of a dance work are small and ring-fenced (the choreographer produces, selects and controls the material) then our bias for particular semiotic readings results in a low level of indeterminacy. the only way to achieve 'maximum' indeterminacy is for the choreographer to exert minimal control over the movement corpus.

'minimal control' of the corpus need not mean 'found' choreography in the tradition of 4'33", if we define choreography as 'making structures in which movement may occur' then the choreographer can still retain some ownership of contextual meaning. presented in an appropriate structure, divergent content forms the dissonant harmony of authored indeterminacy

- Mat Gough -networked choreography - ii

I think the next quote fits with the manner in which Cage and Cuningham work in Variations V. The chance element of the dancers position to the antennae and the creation of the score using dice rolls within Variations V is the minimum control within the corpus of the work. This creates an indeterminacy within the work. However they still maintain a 'ring-fenced' approach to the work in the rigidity of the over riding structure of the piece by Cage and Cunnignham. This lowers the level of the indeterminacy by reducing the divergence of the forms within the piece. The framework is static with the chance creating the indeterminacy within the structure creating a 'fabricated' hyperchoreography as the indeterminacy of the mixing forms is limited within this static structure.