Networked Music Review — Interview: Cardiff + Miller 2 of 9 22/02/14 5:34 PM http://turbulence.org/networked_music_review/2007/09/20/interview... Networked_Music_Review Interview: Cardiff + Miller Tags PeterTraub Tags:collaboration narrative cinema immersion interview mixed reality multimedia sound walk Janet Cardiff: ... Do you remember how we came up with the idea George?George Bures Miller: You were reading Kafka's "In the Penal Colony" and we started talking about it. Kafka's story seems so relevant to the strange times we're living through right now. I think we came up with the title and then started to brainstorm. What about this, what about that... how would this work, that's stupid, whatever.Janet: I think we were also thinking about the prison research we did for Pandemonium and how disgusted we have always been about capital punishment and the idea of democratic governments being involved in killing and torture.George: And of course the Iraq war. But the process was that we both made drawings of what we conceptualized and then we'd critique each others drawings and figure out what ideas were interesting which would then feed into more drawings. Originally we had drawings with solenoids attached to the arms of the barber chair. And one drawing had a juke box attached to the main structure that would control the movement with the choice of the music. But all that stuff changed when we started to build it and tried to figure out how to get it all to work. That's when the fun really starts.Janet: Your question about aesthetic tensions; I don't really remember any. If we do have conflict in ideas or response to a piece then we agree to try it and see if it does work and then we go from there.George: We can almost always agree on what makes a work stronger or weaker. It's funny because we almost never agree on what art we like by other people...Janet: We tend to throw out ideas to each other, working on many levels at once skipping from the physical elements to the technical to the conceptual. For example in Killing Machine we set up the moving speaker first with the barber chair inside the metal structure. I recorded some dialogue voice for it then we played it through the speaker. Neither of us liked it even though that's what we both thought would work when we livestage ~ music ~ sound ~ performance ~ calls + opps ~ installation ~ audio/visual ~ radio ~ instrument ~ festival ~ networked ~ audio ~ interactive ~ experimental ~ electronic ~ workshop ~ participatory ~ video ~ writings ~ event ~ mobile ~ exhibition ~ concert ~ live ~ collaboration ~ electroacoustic ~ reblog ~ environment ~ nature ~ distributed ~ field recording ~ net_music_weekly ~ soundscape ~ improvisation ~ software ~ history ~ locative media ~ space ~ noise ~ public ~ recording ~ voice ~ immersion ~ acoustic ~ lecture ~ sonification ~ generative ~ conference ~ body ~ tool ~ sound sculpture ~ art + science ~ light ~ net art ~ VJ/DJ ~ remix ~ site-specific ~ diy ~ perception ~ film ~ visualization ~ mapping ~ laptop ~ wearable ~ listening ~ city ~ urban ~ multimedia ~ algorithmic ~ architecture ~ game ~ data ~ open source ~ robotic ~ biotechnology ~ virtual ~ spatialization ~ platform ~ hacktivism ~ sound walk ~ webcast ~ score ~ image ~ electromagnetic ~ composer ~ found ~ cinema ~ new media ~ ecology ~ telematic ~ news ~ interface ~ residency ~ sensor ~ circuit bending ~ dance ~ interviews/other ~ streaming ~ synesthesia ~ physical ~ notation ~ political ~ intervention ~ object ~ conversation ~ controller ~ narrative ~ broadcasts ~ second life ~ responsive ~ mashup ~ place ~ social network ~ technology ~ ambient ~ motion tracking ~ hybrid Networked Music Review — Interview: Cardiff + Miller 3 of 9 22/02/14 5:34 PM http://turbulence.org/networked_music_review/2007/09/20/interview... Networked_Music_Review were discussing it. Then we played some other sounds and music through it and I liked some of it but George didn't. Playing it again the next day I agreed with him. Then George liked some music that we'd used in another piece and it did seem to push it into the right direction but I didn't want to use the same music again so in the next days George found a piece of music on the internet (Heartstrings by Freida Abtan) that seemed to suit the physical aspects of the piece. We both responded immediately to the music once we put it into the piece. It completely suited the mechanical nature of the piece but also the mood and pushed the piece almost into choreography ... a dance work. I guess the pink fun fur was more me and the mechanical robot aspect was more George but we both have to be enthusiastic for any element to stay in a piece and not be cut.George: Hmm, I thought the idea for the robot arms was yours and the pink fun fur was mine.Janet: Yeah. 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