A work in progress and basket of ideas for the flow of Smoke & Vapour http://fo.am/smoke_vapour
The menu as published on 20131114
Aperitif: Effervescent and crispy
Drink
Food
Sounds (pre-recorded, served on the same trays as the food)
Place: entrance, in front of the green glass
Posture: standing, walking
Actions: Hand washing and drying on low tables (kneeling), sipping a drink, tasting bite-sized amuses, mingling
Props needed:
Isolation Ward: synaesthetic and meditative
Drink
Food
Sounds (sounds of the water on the rocks, generative granular synthesis, from speakers under or next to chairs, perhaps small, barely audible, invisible live interventions)
SW - improv based on cross-fade with cobblestone steam sauna sounds NIK - souce sounds played on the same 4 portable speakers and 4 mp3 players as in previous piece. So this would be a separate ID track which can be cued off stage.
Nik & SW: Stage set B = portable speakers on the trays are placed at positions selected for optimim listening by the the 12 separated guests. SW
Place: under the high roof, in front of the metal panel
Posture: sitting on a chair, alone
Actions: Slowing down, listening, tasting, breathing
Props needed:
Tavern: dynamic and absorbing
Drink
Food (we need to make something the serving and eating of this quite light/etherial, even though ingredients might be stodgy)
Sounds (pre-recorded and abstracted, from speakers under or next to individual chairs, perhaps small, barely audible, invisible live interventions)
Place: under low roof, 'screening room
Posture: sitting on chairs in groups of 4 people
Actions: Sharing, listening, tasting, gesturing
Props needed:
Kitchen table: light, social, colourful
Drink (all depending on the food served)
Food
Petit fours
Sound (pre-recorded, played and spoken live)
Place: kitchen table, on our prep and plating table, that is covered with notes, instructions, drawings and stains
Posture: standing around the table
Actions: Observing, reading, tasting, listening (to the inner and outer environment), at the end beginning to chat
Props needed: