Syracuse University SURFACE School of Architecture Dissertations and Architecture Senior Theses Theses Spring 2014 The Immersive Spectacle: Performance and the Audience in Pop Music - Part 2 Emily Roupp Follow this and additional works at: https://surface.syr.edu/architecture_theses Part of the Architecture Commons Recommended Citation Roupp, Emily, "The Immersive Spectacle: Performance and the Audience in Pop Music - Part 2" (2014). Architecture Senior Theses. 223. https://surface.syr.edu/architecture_theses/223 This Thesis, Senior is brought to you for free and open access by the School of Architecture Dissertations and Theses at SURFACE. It has been accepted for inclusion in Architecture Senior Theses by an authorized administrator of SURFACE. For more information, please contact [email protected]. THE IMMERSIVE SPECTACLE: Performance and the Audience in Pop Music Emily Ruopp Anda French / Kyle Miller INDIVIDUAL IMMERSION HEADPHONES AND MUSIC VIDEOS MADONNA | STICKY & SWEET TOUR | 2009 MADONNA | MDNA TOUR | 2013 IMAGERY THEN IMAGERY NOW BRTIENY SPEARS | OOPS I DID IT AGAIN | 2000 BRTIENY SPEARS | WOMANIZER | 2008 DESTINY’S CHILD | SAY MY NAME | 1999 BEYONCE | GROWN WOMAN | 2013 MUSIC VIDEOS THEN MUSIC VIDEOS NOW BRTIENY SPEARS | OOPS I DID IT AGAIN | 2000 BRTIENY SPEARS | SCREAM AND SHOUT 2013 DESTINY’S CHILD | SAY MY NAME | 1999 BEYONCE | GROWN WOMAN | 2013 MUSIC VIDEOS NOW MUSIC VIDEOS NOW BRITNEY SPEARS | PIECE OF ME | 2007 BRITNEY SPEARS | SCREAM AND SHOUT 2013 BEYONCE | PUT A RING ON IT | 2008 BEYONCE | GROWN WOMAN | 2013 MUSIC VIDEOS NOW MUSIC VIDEOS NOW BRITNEY SPEARS | PIECE OF ME | 2007 BRITNEY SPEARS | SCREAM AND SHOUT 2013 BEYONCE | PUT A RING ON IT | 2008 BEYONCE | GROWN WOMAN | 2013 MUSIC VIDEOS NOW MUSIC VIDEOS NOW BRITNEY SPEARS | PIECE OF ME | 2007 BEYONCE | GROWN WOMAN | 2013 BEYONCE | PUT A RING ON IT | 2008 BEYONCE | GROWN WOMAN | 2013 PERFORMANCES NOW MUSIC VIDEOS NOW BEYONCE | SUPERBOWL HALF TIME SHOW | 2013 BEYONCE | GROWN WOMAN | 2013 BEYONCE | SUPERBOWL HALF TIME SHOW | 2013 BEYONCE | GROWN WOMAN | 2013 PERFORMANCES NOW MUSIC VIDEOS NOW BEYONCE | SUPERBOWL HALF TIME SHOW | 2013 BEYONCE | GROWN WOMAN | 2013 BEYONCE | SUPERBOWL HALF TIME SHOW | 2013 BEYONCE | GROWN WOMAN | 2013 PERFORMANCES NOW MUSIC VIDEOS NOW BRITNEY SPEARS | VEGAS | 2014 BRITNEY SPEARS | SCREAM AND SHOUT 2013 BEYONCE | BILLBOARD AWARDS | 2011 BEYONCE | GROWN WOMAN | 2013 PERFORMANCES NOW - close up PERFORMANCES NOW - far away BRITNEY SPEARS | VEGAS | 2014 BRITNEY SPEARS | VEGAS | 2014 BEYONCE | BILLBOARD AWARDS | 2011 BEYONCE | BILLBOARD AWARDS | 2011 POP PERFORMANCES OTHER LIVE PERFORMANCES BRITNEY SPEARS | VEGAS | 2014 HATSUN MIKU | JAPANESE POP MUSIC BEYONCE | BILLBOARD AWARDS | 2011 HATUN MIKU | JAPANESE POP MUSIC POP PERFORMANCES IMMERSIVE PERFORMANCES ART BRITNEY SPEARS | VEGAS | 2014 FUERZA BRUTA | NYC | 2002 - PRESENT BEYONCE | BILLBOARD AWARDS | 2011 SLEEP NO MORE | NYC | 2011 - PRESENT POP PERFORMANCES IMMERSIVE PROJECTION MAPPING BRITNEY SPEARS | VEGAS | 2014 BACARDI | VIENNA BEYONCE | BILLBOARD AWARDS | 2011 DUMBO ARTS FESTIVAL | NYC POP PERFORMANCES IMMERSIVE PROJECTION MAPPING BRITNEY SPEARS | VEGAS | 2014 JOANIE LAMERCIER BEYONCE | BILLBOARD AWARDS | 2011 FRACTION AND MAOTIK | DROMOS POP PERFORMANCES IMMERSIVE ART INSTALLATIONS BRITNEY SPEARS | VEGAS | 2014 SERGE SELAT | BEYOND INFINITY SHANGHAI | 20011 BEYONCE | BILLBOARD AWARDS | 2011 POP PERFORMANCES IMMERSIVE ART INSTALLATIONS BRITNEY SPEARS | VEGAS | 2014 ANISH KAPOOR | LEVIANTHAN PARIS | 2011 BEYONCE | BILLBOARD AWARDS | 2011 ANISH KAPOOR | LEVIANTHAN PARIS | 2011 POP PERFORMANCES IMMERSIVE ACOUSTIC INSTALLATIONS BRITNEY SPEARS | VEGAS | 2014 BERNHARD LEITNER | SOUND CUBE | 1978 BEYONCE | BILLBOARD AWARDS | 2011 BERNHARD LEITNER | GUIDING SPACES | 1978 POP PERFORMANCES IMMERSIVE ACOUSTIC FURNITURE BRITNEY SPEARS | VEGAS | 2014 BERNHARD LEITNER | SOUND CHAIR | 1978 BEYONCE | BILLBOARD AWARDS | 2011 BERNHARD LEITNER | SOUND CHAIR | 1978 APPAGIATURA VISIBLE LIGHT SPECTRUM 0.0001 nm Gamma Visible Light Rays 400 nm Violet 0.01 nm 425 nm Indigo X-Rays 470 nm Blue 10 nm 490 nm Aqua Ulta- Violet 550 nm Green Increasing Increasing1000 nm Wavelength Energy 600 nm Yellow Infared 0.01 cm 630 nm Orange 665 nm Red 10 nm Radar Radio 700 nm Dark Red Waves TV 1 m FM 100 m AM NEUROSCIENCE TECHNOLOGY pros cons / limits pros cons / limits 65 mm Film stock Increase Resolution 24 Frames / Sec. (F/S) Imax Camera/ With larger Film Frame Capable of Short Can Produce epileptic Projector World’s Largest flickering effect seisures Screen Size: No More than 30 sec. 117’ x 97’ Portable Non - Projection Screen Standard Screen Size: Strobe Lights at 8Hz Intervals Lit By LED lights 72’ x 56’ Largest Jumbotron: Jumbotron 33’ x 110’ 640 x 360 pixels = 25in. screen Requires a specific from 8’ away 3D projection Optical Head-Mounted Exposure time 16 gb Storage Capacity Display = Invididual Scale Holographic Can Be precisely Limited Surface Area of Lenses Works best in very Google Glasses controlled Projection Dark environments Projects over Only can emit a Long Distances Single Color Can be transparent, Must require an Laser Beam Multi - color laser beams do not vary much in spectrum Transluscent, and electric current Opaque Full Range Driver = Widest Frequency Different Speakers Produce Subwoofer = Lowest Frequency ELectrostatic Can project on different Ranges of Audible Mid-Range Driver = Middle Frequencies Frequencey Tweeter = High Frequencies Glass Coaxial Drivers = 2+ combined drivers Speaker (Produce different Diffraction Effects) Can give the The Object in view illusion of infinity must be in exact oppo- site orientation to the Will reflect light viewer Mirrors and exact replicas of any given object Isoated Listening Impedence: SLow: Lifting Capacity = 125,000 lbs. head phones Portable Low = 16 - 32 ohms High = 100 - 600 ohms NO Overhead Machine Fast: Lifting Capacity = 10,000 lbs. No vertical load Travels up to 60ft. Life Span: Hydraulic Lifts Point Light Incandescent 1,200 hrs CFLs 8,000 hrs LED etc. 50,000 hrs Restrictions to Circular form “Masking” Capability = Easy to CHange Scenery projection Capable of 20,000 Lumens Mapping Different Opacities (Syscraper Scale) Revolving Stage Cannot Be Dimmed Creates Hazy Can cause headaches, dizziness, Interchangable Atmosphere and Drowsiness Lenses for Color, Warm Up Time Concentration, Needed Can Absorb Color stage lights Reflection Mechanically Projections Controlled Fog Machine frontal orientation performer audience in-the-round orientation reverse in-the-round orientation combination of them alL freely mixed between audience and performers linear orientation RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PROGRAM TRADITIONAL IMMERSIVE BACKSTAGE FRONT-OF-HOUSE AUDIENCE STAGE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PROGRAM TRADITIONAL IMMERSIVE BACKSTAGE FRONT-OF-HOUSE AUDIENCE STAGE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PROGRAM TRADITIONAL IMMERSIVE BACKSTAGE FRONT-OF-HOUSE AUDIENCE STAGE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PROGRAM TRADITIONAL IMMERSIVE BACKSTAGE FRONT-OF-HOUSE AUDIENCE STAGE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PROGRAM TRADITIONAL IMMERSIVE BACKSTAGE FRONT-OF-HOUSE AUDIENCE STAGE WALL THICKNESS - PROGRAM PLANS | GROUND FLOOR PLANS | SECOND FLOOR PLANS | FOURTH FLOOR PLANS | SIXTH FLOOR SECTIONAL PERSPECTIVE SECTIONAL PERSPECTIVE SECTIONAL PERSPECTIVE.