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Experiments in Intimacy and Immersion (2015)

Rik Lander
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As writer and director, Rik Lander’s aim with The Memory Dealer was to create a dramatic experience where audience members felt they had really become part of another world and another set of lives. The story was told through multiple media: an app that delivered narration and musical score via headphones, interactive installations, diegetic audio, prop flyers and newspapers, and encounters with actors. Rather than simply view the unfolding story, audience members were immersed in it and expected to become actor and author. Lander offers an insider’s, auto-ethnographic perspective on the realization of this pervasive drama. He uses audience feedback to explore whether he succeeded in making this change to their role without arousing their self-consciousness. He also examines whether plot and characters could be as complex as in a movie or conventional play and which of the multiple forms of engagement served to immerse and which to alienate the audience?
typeresearch exposition
date24/04/2015
published07/05/2015
last modified07/05/2015
statuspublished
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licenseAll rights reserved
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/147587/147608
published inJournal of Sonic Studies
portal issue09. Issue 9


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id name copyright license
148755 The Memory Dealer - Police Interview scene extract-SD Rik Lander All rights reserved
148687 Discussion Rik Lander All rights reserved
148678 AudioObject3 Rik Lander All rights reserved
148661 AudioObject2 Rik Lander All rights reserved
148649 AudioObject1 Rik Lander All rights reserved
148632 TMD: eve's hotel room Rik Lander All rights reserved
148612 Trial By Media Installation-SD Rik Lander All rights reserved
148608 TMD: The dentists waiting room set Rik Lander All rights reserved
148599 Memitation Class TMD Rik Lander All rights reserved
147613 TMD_Preludium Lander All rights reserved
147610 TMD_preludium Lander All rights reserved
147605 Figure 2. Three images of the app. TMD Iteration 4, Bristol, May 2013. Lander All rights reserved
147601 Immediacy/Hypermediacy Venn Diagram Lander All rights reserved
147590 sonicstudies-banner-964-3 Mannschaft All rights reserved

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