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Technical Design Solutions for Theatre
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Technical Design Solutions for Theatre

by Ben Sammler, Don Harvey
December 2012
Intermediate to advanced
320 pages
9h 35m
English
Routledge
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Simultaneous Realtime Control ofSound and Light with MIDI

Lee Faulkner

“My computer is out to get me!” It’s not an uncommon suspicion in today’s PC-saturated world. But for the characters of Murder by Numbers, that vague suspicion becomes chilling conviction as an apparently ordinary desktop computer takes over the lives (and deaths) of its human housemates. The plot of this play requires a “computer with personality” — a machine able to engage in dialogue with other characters and to exhibit human-like emotional shadings and timing on cue. For the director of the 1995 production at Brisbane (Australia’s) Playhouse, the decision to use an offstage actor to speak the computer’s lines was immediately clear; but for the company’s technical staff, ...

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