Scoring an interactive, multimedia performance work

The Color of Waiting is an interactive theater work with music, dance, and video which was developed at STEIM in Amsterdam and further refined at CMMAS in Morelia Mexico with funding from Meet the Composer. Using Max/MSP/ Jitter a cellist is able to control sound and video during the performance while performing a structured improvisation in response to the dancer’s movement. In order to ensure. repeated performances of The Color of Waiting, Kinesthetech Sense created the score contained in this paper. Performance is essential to the practice of time-based art as a living form, but has been complicated by the unique challenges in interpretation and re-creation posed by works incorporating technology. Creating a detailed score is one of the ways artists working with technology can combat obsolescence.