"Alpha Beta Disco: Godard Remix"

Live performance by: DropBox
When: 7pm Wednesday April 2 2003"
Where: HCC Campus Theater

"Alph Beta Disco" - Abbridged version
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DropBox "flattens" Godard's film "Alphaville" (1965) into a static multimedia database containing every scene, line of dialogue, sound effect and orchestral score cue. These materials are organized according to character, location and formal qualities. A 45-minute real-time performance/remix is realized solely using this database.

DropBox's live performance represents an alternate, spontaneously improvised, non-narrative interface to Godard's original work reproduced as a film.

DropBox relies on a primary improvisational tool-the remix-while performing with software of their design. DropBox blends elements from the "Alphaville" database with an abstract formal logic, rather than pursuing a narrative drive. DropBox cuts and pastes, overlaps and overlays, compresses and expands, filters, re-sequences and links multimedia data into new musical/visual formations.

For more information about DropBox, you may visit their website http://www.drop-box.net/