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Thanks to everyone who has attended so far! And for those who haven't yet... Come experience the FINAL PERFORMANCES of The Perimeter, an original interdisciplinary work of action-based theater performance.. The Perimeter was created collaboratively by Plasticene's actors, designers, and director. It is an exploration that integrates highly physically, non-verbal theater with video, light, electronic music and noise. It is also an exploration of how central power exerts its influence at the geographical and human edges of authority. Its stories and images are based in part on recent events, such as the Abu Ghraib prison torture scandal, and our research of diverse academic and literary resources, among them the Stanford Prison Experiment, and J.M. Coetzee's novel, Waiting For the Barbarians. The Perimeter is directed by Sharon Göpfert, and performed by Mark Comiskey, Luis Crespo, Tere Parkes, Brian Shaw, and Nana Shineflug, with lighting design by Carrie Kennedy, real-time video projections by Stephan Mazurek, costumes by Camilla Ha, assistant direction by Michael Macias, and stage management by Leigh Barrett. The Perimeter received a critics' choice in the music section of the Chicago Reader and a good review on Chicagonoise.net <http://www.chicagonoise.net/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=103&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0>. Sun-Times theater critic, Hedy Wiess wrote, "No other theater company in this city approaches story-telling in the same way as Plasticene...no other ensemble draws its audience into the story telling with quite the same ferocity and strange sense of exhilaration." Chicago Tribune theater critic, Chris Jones, wrote, "...well-performed, visually arresting and consistently engaging." The Perimeter is, in part, an experiment in live performance of electronic music and sound with in the context of theater. The interface for controlling the sound often uses the action of Plasticene's actors. This interface was developed with a custom built USB controller, handmade sensors, and software built in Max/MSP by Robb Drinkwater, my fellow sound faculty member at the School of Art Institute of Chicago. Much of the music I've created is loop based, performed on my laptop using samples derived from both acoustic "concrete" and electronic sources. The predominant concrete sounds are from the South American berimbau, feedback recorded through PVC pipes, and field recordings made in the Blackwell Forest Preserve (Warrenville, Illinois) at dusk. The sounds of wind were synthesized with Robb's "wind generator" Max/MSP patch. All of this is played through a five-channel surround playback system. Two Mp3 audio samples are up now on my "composer and performer" page <http://pages.ripco.net/~eleon/composer/index.html>. The Perimeter will be performed 8:00 pm on Thursday, November 18 and Friday, November 19, with two shows on Saturday, at 8:00 and 10:30 pm. Closing night performance: 7:00 pm, Sunday, November 21, at the Viaduct, 3111 N. Western Ave., Chicago. Tickets are $15-$20, $10 rush tickets available to students an hour before showtime. Seating is limited so call now for reservations 312-409-0400. The Viaduct is just South of Belmont Ave. Parking under the viaduct is always available, under the east side of the Western-Belmont overpass - between Barry and Fletcher, 1-1/2 blocks south of the Belmont-Western-Clybourn intersection. CTA: 49-Western bus to Barry or 77-Belmont bus to Western Ave. Viaduct website: http://www.viaducttheater.com/ Best regards, Eric <http://pages.ripco.net/~eleon/whatsnew.html> -- Eric Leonardson http://pages.ripco.net/~eleon/whatsnew.html Final performances of Plasticene's "The Perimeter", an original theater work featuring live electronic music and sensor technologies created with Robb Drinkwater, and video by Stephan Mazurek, Thu-Sun, November 18-21, at the Viaduct Theater, 3111 N. Western, Chicago. $15-$20, $10 rush tickets available to students an hour before show-time, reservations: 312-409-0400.