Protocols for Collective Performance

Feline & Fred & Eleni & Alexandria & Charlie

Protocol for Dazzling

A side: players make sounds with their jewellery, players without jewellery make fake jewellery sounds, following the shape of an object in the middle of the space.

If at least one player isn't wearing jewellery: B side: all players, whether they have jewellery or not, imitate the sound of one of the players without jewellery.

Recordings

MUG - Side A

MUG - Side B

REMOTE - Side A

REMOTE - Side B

Covers

Protocol for Bookworms

All players pick a book and a kill word from the front of their book, players sing the first word on the book's first page. after all players finished singing this first word, they all turn to the next page and repeat the protocol.

The protocol is finished when one of the players reaches the end of their book, or when one of the players sings one of the kill words. In both events the relevant player signals the end.

Recording

Protocol for Nearsightedness

Players sit around a table. They close their eyes, take off their glasses and slide them to a random player. Each one wears the glasses they find in front of them when they open their eyes again. Players without glasses put on 'finger glasses'. When one player gathers all glasses the game ends.

Protocol for Interviews

Pick a random text in your field of view. Choose one random word and form a question for the interviewee using that word.

Protocol for Interruption

The players conduct an interview. Before the interview starts, the hosts pick a word. Whenever the interviewee says said word the hosts ask a new question.

Martina, Claudio, Imre & Sevgi

Protocol for Slapping

In a group of four, one person starts moving their hands. Another person closes their eyes and tries to high-five the hands of the other person while they’re moving. The remaining participants comment on their actions either with sound or one worded responses.

Protocol for High-Fiving

In a group of four two people high-five each other changing patterns from time to time. The remaining participants comment on their actions either with sound or one worded responses.

Protocol for Thinking

Think aloud until you hit the word: 'lemon'.

Protocol for Imitation

Search for another persons archived sound on their field recording page and insert yourself in the recording.

Protocol for Alternative Napping

Imagine singing a lullaby to a child, the language you use does not exist nor make sense.

Protocol for Ramble

Find two objects in your vicinity, combine them to form an instrument. Play it. Cover by Wyn,Kim, Tessa and Melisa:

Protocol for Reading

Take any text, translate it into any language you don’t know and read it as if it’s your mother tongue.

Protocol for Acapella

One person dances, the other people around make the sound/ music that the person is dancing to. One person in one instrument (for example: one person is the drums, one person is the guitar, etc..)

Protocol for A Letter

On a desk, act like you are typing on a keyboard and read what you are writing out loud. Stop when you are satisfied with your text.

Zuhui, Imina, Chrissy and Kiara

Pause Protocol

1) Group of 4
2) Record the conversation
3) Person 1 asks questions
4) Person 2 answers
5) Person 3 records and looks at Person 4
6) If Person 4 blinks: Pause recording
7) If Person 4 blinks again: Unpause recording
8) If Person 4 blinks again: Pause recording
9) and so forth…

Cover by Martina, Claudio, Imre & Sevgi

Protocol for intuitive sharing

1) Group of at least 4
2) Person 1 creates a list of emotions
(e.g. disgust, stress, horniness, grief, gloominess, amazement, failure, passion, suspicion, tooth pain, homesickness, boredness, nostalgia, empathy)
3) Start Recording.
4) Person 1 starts by naming one emotion from the list.
5) The others react to that emotion by making a sound/moving their body. Talking is not allowed.
6) Once the group is done acting the emotion, Person A reads another one.
7) Continue until the list is done.

Protocol to embody an emotion

1) Start Recording
2) Person A starts a monologue about a feeling/a situation intuitively.
3) If another person gets tickled by what they hear, they start speaking about it in their own speed.
4) More people can join. Each person only talks about one specific feeling/moment. When they are done, they stay silent.
5) The recording ends once the last person is finished.