Simultaneous Realtime Control ofSound and Light with MIDI |
Lee Faulkner |
“My computer is out to get me!” It’s not an uncommon suspicion in today’s PC-saturated world. But for the characters of Murder by Numbers, that vague suspicion becomes chilling conviction as an apparently ordinary desktop computer takes over the lives (and deaths) of its human housemates. The plot of this play requires a “computer with personality” — a machine able to engage in dialogue with other characters and to exhibit human-like emotional shadings and timing on cue. For the director of the 1995 production at Brisbane (Australia’s) Playhouse, the decision to use an offstage actor to speak the computer’s lines was immediately clear; but for the company’s technical staff, ...
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