Chance Happening in 'Mcrcsm,' Umaine Graduate Students Create an Innovative Multimedia Performance Piece That Extracts Patterns From the Chaos - and Their Audience Helps

Summary

---

Pick a number out of a hat. Set your iPod to shuffle. Take a cookie out of the jar. All those things are left up to chance - seemingly random events that, in actuality, are the product of a complex series of conditions and events, be it the way in which you tossed around the numbers in the hat, or the algorithm used to select songs from a music library.

Chance is the guiding force behind a collaborative multimedia work, "MCRCSM," to be presented by graduate students in the Intermedia MFA program this Saturday evening at the Cyrus Pavilion Theatre at the University of Maine. MCRCSM, which is short for both microcosm and macrocosm, uses audio and visual elements to create a four-hour multimedia installation unlike anything seen in this area in many years, if ever.

See the full content of this document

Extract

---

Chance Happening in 'Mcrcsm,' Umaine Graduate Students Create an Innovative Multimedia Performance Piece That Extracts Patterns From the Chaos - and Their Audience Helps

Inspired by the work of 20th century experimental composer John Cage - who was best known for his works based on chance, or "indeterminacy," as he called it - MCRCSM is the culmination of a year spent working with professor Nate Aldrich in a class focusin...

See the full content of this document

---