DiggyDotCom
⌊ Digital audio, video and music for multidisciplinary theater play. Together with Shade Interactive.
A collection of audio samples from the software developed for the play:
Diggydotcom is a performance about the temptations of virtual freedom. Actors log on to the no man's land of the cyber world, free from their past and free from reality.
"Diggydotcom is made with completely new computer technologies. The interaction team of Made in da Shade — designer Ruud Lanfermeijer, programmer Remko van Dokkum, hardware builder Michiel Cohen Jehoram and audio alchemist Marcel Wierckx — built systems and developed software for months to make the performance completely interactive.
"And soon as you enter the theater, you realize Diggydotcom by Made in da Shade is no ordinary show. Nor is it just another boring play. Their interactive theater gives you surprise after surprise. The relationship with the audience is important, because even the audience participates in the show. Diggydotcom is about the temptations of virtual freedom. We follow actors meeting each other on an internetsite. In the course of their 'chats' on the site we get an insight into their world. A quest for reality in a virtual world, in which the souls of some of todays youth is laid bare: how do they think, how do they react, and what is their behaviour, alone and with other people? Each actor has his own story and his own more or less realistic character. Sometimes their world is a game, sometimes a chatbox.
"Particular to this show is the completely new computer interaction technology, involving music, dance and beautiful video-images. You experience this show like a concert, a musical, or a movie, because you are completely drawn into it. And when the play is over, you don't go home empty-headed. It keeps you busy, long after you've left the theater."