Hardware/Software Development for National Theatre Wales: “Storm III: Together and Alone”
- Submitting institution
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University of South Wales / Prifysgol De Cymru
: B - B – Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies : B - B – Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama
- Output identifier
- 4821126
- Type
- P - Devices and products
- Location
- National Theatre Wales, The Neon, Newport
- Manufacturer
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- Open access status
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- Month of production
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- Year of production
- 2019
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This output involves the creation, by Odilon Marcenaro, of a cost-effective device that would take the heartbeat from an actor and translate that into tempo information for the soundtrack for the theatrical production “Storm III: Together and Alone”, produced for National Theatre Wales in 2019. The concept was that the heart rate would control the overall tempo of the music and sound design, heightening tension at moments of greater physical activity. Marcenaro configured a hard-ware setup, and wrote software both to accept the incoming heart rate data and to use that data to control a play-out system. Marcenaro used open-source hardware which allowed him to trouble-shoot and redesign during the production process. The overall method, which had not previously been attempted, turned out to be an effective way to obtain physical data from actors during per-formance - the set-up behaved well under challenging circumstances. Marcenaro anticipates ex-panding this project by configuring the hardware and software to take readings from multiple sen-sors.
The submitted pdf file includes links to videos that show the hardware and a dress rehearsal with the hardware, a link to the software source code, photographs documenting the work, and a de-scription of the research process.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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