The sms module is now
ready for consumption. It will be used for inserting the 'marker words'
into our 'Parallel Stories'. The sms module
receives a message sent by a mobile phone and displays it as text
in the patch. If all three KeyWorx sessions contain an sms module,
then a word sent from a cell phone by a performer or public, in response
to the audio, appears simultaneously in all three performances. This
means that three parallel translocal exchanges within one physical
space (a room in New York, the V2 bookstore) can be connected by the
same word yet can still be unique in their interpretation of that
word.
Lodewijk, Eric,
Dan and Arjen are enthusiastic about working with this game structure.
Isabelle and I decide to rehearse together one more time. A general
rehearsal with all six performers is planned for the next week.
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Isabelle and I work
for another three hours. Neither of us has a cell phone for that day,
so we are telnetting directly to the sms server. Tom has warned us
that the sms module is not infallible. When an sms is sent from the
mobile phone, the slots on the server get filled up (1-10) and then
are not replaced by new messages. We have no way of testing this now,
but decide to just go ahead and do it. We start working and immediately
it starts to click. The insertion of this text fragment coming from
outside sources is proving to be the necessary glue.
A word appears in the center, causing a rupture in the story flow,
leading it to unpredictable directions. I am incorporating typos within
my narrative. I try to type a word, but something else comes up.
FEETS, FEST, FIESTA, FOOL, second ring? bull terra here china blue
me make good wife les favorites du jour.... A stream of logical
or incoherent thoughts flow out of me unedited, unhinged. I can't
stop and I don't seem to get tired.
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