Performance Philosophy: audience participation and responsibility

Large Audience Participation, Technology, and Orchestral Performance

Glimmer, a composition for chamber orchestra and audience, uses novelty light sticks, video cameras, computer software, multi-colored stand lights, and projected video animation to create a continuous feedback loop in which audience activities, software algorithms, and orchestral performance together create the music. This paper establishes the aesthetic background and motivations behind Glimme...

massMobile -an Audience Participation Framework

Techniques for Interactive Audience Participation

At SIGGRAPH in 1991, Loren and Rachel Carpenter unveiled an interactive entertainment system that allowed members of a large audience to control an onscreen game using red and green reflective paddles. In the spirit of this approach, we present a new set of techniques that enable members of an audience to participate, either cooperatively or competitively, in shared entertainment experiences. O...

Free Will and Moral Responsibility in Islamic Philosophy

According to a common view among Muslim philosophers, a moral agent has free will if and only if she is able to do an action when she wants to and is able to avoid it when she wants otherwise. Implicit in this view is the Principle of Alternative Possibilities (PAP). On the other hand, according to this view, free will is dependent on requirements such as conception, judgement, tendency, decisi...

Audience participation in children's theatre performances

The gardener picks up a fir cone and rolls it through the quiet room straight towards a small child in the audience. Either the child leaves the fir cone lying where it is, or perhaps picks it up. Perhaps the child will later roll the fir cone on towards another child. Or make a gravel track around its mother. Maybe the child kneels down beside a bed full of branches and twigs and feels the mat...