Work
moonlight serenade
Maker Candle House · Work date 2019-04 · Medium telephone + other · Role work
Description
A representative of Serenade Exploration contacts you about naming rights to cataloged stars. Delivered through phone calls, text messages and emails across about three days, and described by the company as "live, wholly interactive theater, personalized to each individual participant," exploring "the relationship between creativity and loneliness." Candle House's third ARX.
Source. https://www.noproscenium.com/creating-ephemeral-moments-with-moonlight-serenade-q-a/
Live voice actors, not automation. The maker's own framing: the participant "can shift or guide the interactions within however they choose, if they choose" — participation invited rather than required.
Anatomy
Thirteen criteria after Lauren R. Beck. Each carries a source grade: M maker-confirmed, P published, F first-hand, I inferred by the compiler, ? not yet established. Definitions are on the anatomy page.
- Participants listen through headphonesnoI
Calls to the participant's own phone.
- Participants move through space as part of the worknoI
No relocation is directed.
- Audio technology is necessaryyesP
Live calls are the delivery; texts and emails are connective tissue.
- Site-, situation- or language-specificnoI
Placeless.
- Engages with the history of a sitenoI
No documented past of a real place.
- Created for an urban environmentnoI
No urban dependence.
- Created as an artwork other than theaternoP
A theater company; the maker's own word is theater.
- Intended to be understood as theateryesP
"Live, wholly interactive theater."
- Accidental real-world sights and sounds are importantunknown?
Not addressed.
Did you experience this? Tell us - Spectator must participatesometimesP
The maker says the participant may guide the interaction "if they choose" — invited, not required.
- Has live performers other than the participantsyesP
Live voice actors across the run.
- Involves game playnoI
No rules, objective or resolution state.
- Uses props other than the listening deviceunknown?
Not addressed.
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