FREEDOM ON THE MOVE (Othella)

 FREEDOM ON THE MOVE

A ROCK THEATRE COMMUNITY PRODUCTION BASED ON SHAKESPEARE'S OTHELLO.

OUR VERSION HAS OTHELLA ...A FEMALE ACTRESS/MUSICIAN IN A MODERN SETTING...SHE IS THE CEO OF AN INTERNATIONAL RECORDING MUSIC EMPIRE...AND SHE IS MARRIED TO  DESMOND  INSTEAD OF THE ORIGINAL DESDEMONA

Here is the link to how Plymouth Octopus Project is offering a chance for this project to receive funding to be voted on by POP Members

https://www.plymouthoctopus.org/pop-collectives-detail/freedom_on_the_move/r/rec4KvK9mZAcngxnp

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This is where POP Members can vote

https://www.plymouthoctopus.org/pop-collectives-rating-new

Freedom on the Move is a rock-theatre experiment rooted in Plymouth, where a choir, a rock band and a promoter collide to create something entirely new. Through workshops, rehearsals and shared dialogue, the project explores what happens when radically different sounds, values and motivations meet — and how they can find common rhythm. Inspired by Othello, it’s about hearing for yourself, not the whispers of others, and discovering what’s possible when you listen differently. The journey will culminate in a free performance where audiences, once divided by taste, come together under one roof to become part of the same song. 

In a time when hope can feel scarce, Freedom on the Move offers a shared moment of connection — reminding people what it feels like to belong, to be moved, and to stand beside strangers and realise that, somehow, we’re all part of the same song. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNgsmvgBG5Y

PRESS-RELEASE - ARTS/MUSIC INTERVENTION

                           PRESS-RELEASE

                Music/Arts Intervention                

       

             MUSIC/ARTS INTERVENTION

                            TRIPLE T

           RECORDING STUDIO / REHEARSAL SPACE

      FOR WORKSHOPS AND ONE TO ONE - OR GROUP                                         TUITION/THERAPIES

14-17 MANOR ST.

STONEHOUSE

PLYMOUTH

PL1 1TL

(Above Cafe Momus)

  Contact  TIM FRANCIS 07413541258

Email timofranc@googlemail.com

SINGERS

MUSICIANS

SONGWRITERS

BANDS

SESSION-MUSICIANS

ON-LOCATION RECORDING

MIXING

VOICEOVERS

VIDEOS

MASTERING

MUSIC THERAPY

AFRICAN DRUMMING

PODCASTS

MEETINGS

ONE-TO-ONE COACHING/THERAPY

TEAM BUILDING EVENTS

GREEN SCREENING

Consoles:Recording:Sony Acid

Microphones:

Sennheiser

Rode

Shure SM57

AKG

MUSIC/ARTS INTERVENTION -PRESS-RELEASE

                          PRESS-RELEASE

                Music/Arts Intervention                

       

             MUSIC/ARTS INTERVENTION

                            TRIPLE T

           RECORDING STUDIO / REHEARSAL SPACE

      FOR WORKSHOPS AND ONE TO ONE - OR GROUP                                         TUITION/THERAPIES

14-17 MANOR ST.

STONEHOUSE

PLYMOUTH

PL1 1TL

(Above Cafe Momus)

  Contact  TIM FRANCIS 07413541258

Email timofranc@googlemail.com

SINGERS

MUSICIANS

SONGWRITERS

BANDS

SESSION-MUSICIANS

ON-LOCATION RECORDING

MIXING

VOICEOVERS

VIDEOS

MASTERING

MUSIC THERAPY

AFRICAN DRUMMING

PODCASTS

MEETINGS

ONE-TO-ONE COACHING/THERAPY

TEAM BUILDING EVENTS

GREEN SCREENING

Consoles:Recording:Sony Acid

Microphones:

Sennheiser

Rode

Shure SM57

AKG

                         PRESS-RELEASE

                Music/Arts Intervention                

       

             MUSIC/ARTS INTERVENTION

           RECORDING STUDIO / REHEARSAL SPACE

      FOR WORKSHOPS AND ONE TO ONE - OR GROUP                                         TUITION/THERAPIES

14-17 MANOR ST.

STONEHOUSE

PLYMOUTH

PL1 1TL

(Above Cafe Momus)

  Contact  TIM FRANCIS 07413541258

SINGERS

MUSICIANS

SONGWRITERS

BANDS

SESSION-MUSICIANS

ON-LOCATION RECORDING

MIXING

VOICEOVERS

VIDEOS

MASTERING

MUSIC THERAPY

AFRICAN DRUMMING

PODCASTS

MEETINGS

ONE-TO-ONE COACHING/THERAPY

TEAM BUILDING EVENTS

GREEN SCREENING

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Consoles:

Recording:

Sony Acid

Microphones:

Sennheiser

Rode

Shure SM57

AKG

Monitoring:

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Playback / Recorders

TIM FRANCIS INDEPENDENT PLYMOUTH COUNCILLOR CAMPAIGN 2019

THIS IS A WORK IN PROGRESS.



VOLUNTEERS TO BE INVITED TO HELP CAMPAIGN

SOME EXISTING LABOUR AND TORY IDEAS TO BE MODIFIED AND IMPLEMENTED IF RIGHT FOR COMMUNITY.

 Homes to be built using alternative building techniques… replicated in acceptable space …4x4  apartments in one block … …stories = 16 homes in smaller spaces.

REDUCE THE SHAM AND/OR MAKE PUBLIC THE NIHILISM OF SUPPOSEDLY POST MODERN EDUCATION IN OUR UNIVERSITY AND SCHOOLING SYSTEM

  

                               PAPA SMART
         Plymouth Archive Performance Arts-Spoken-word Music And Real Theatre


 This is an archive that will cover areas of Plymouth in the U.K.  displaying the performances and where posssible collecting the memories, experiences of people who have performed and/or have been spectators/collaborators to performances in and around the city.
 This will include any kind of performance/intallation/art/music/dance/poetry/rap etc. Also from any person/artist that has created craftwork /artwork etc and how it was made and why.


Here is an example of how various artists reach a state of Flow to perform. 2016/17

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Here is Gabi Marcellus-Temple, an artist in Plymouth, explaining about her 'skeleton'. 2015

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Here is the Plymouth University Postgraduate Research Showcase 2016/17 ongoing

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Serpent Theatre 2016

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Beltane Border Morris 2016

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Patrick Anthony 2011

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Joel Griffiths (J Reaper) Interview 2017

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Love Summer Festival performers 2016

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Yozi 2011

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Richard, Kat and Paula 2016

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Jinzhuo 2016

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Simon Williams et al 2016

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Freesound Radio approx 2012 various performers

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Teresa Konaris 2016

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Sophia Konaris 2016

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Susan Taylor 2016

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Tim Francis and various people 2016

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Massino de Majo Biancamaria Stanzani Ghedini 2016

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Hannah Linden 2016

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Daniel Marcus Clark and Andy Williamson 2016

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Djembala (3 performances in one day) 2016

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Nikki Taylor 2016

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Karina Vettorel Exhibition

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Katie Ness and various performers 2015

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Gavin Randle/Tim Francis/Michael Klein and friend

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Jake Bradshaw, Chelsea Orme-Williams, Snow and friends 2012

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Dimitra Poulos and Tim Francis 2016

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Baba Yaga Circus 2016

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Drumming Jo and friends 2012

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Beatrice Hammond 2016

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PLYMOUTH UNIVERSITY

                         GLOSSARY OF PRACTICE

IMPROVISATION : Go With The Flow.

This first part of this paper will highlight the background of this phenomenon. The notion of a Flow of thought as a recognised psychological process can be traced to Albert Van Heim in 1871 in Switzerland. He was a geologist and his own near-death experience started his case studies into similar encounters by mountain climbers (Roszell, 1992) and found they achieved altered states of consciousness.  In 1904 William James of Harvard, who was studying ‘fight or flight’ reaction, expanded the research. Part of this altered state became known as Peak Experience, within his psychology circle, and noted philosophically for its mystical qualities (Nagler, 2010). It was physiology with Will Cannon in 1916 that provided a breakthrough though, determining that these varying changes in consciousness, was rooted in biology (Cannon, 1915). In the mid-20^th Century, Abraham Maslow found there was this common attribute of flowing thought as Peak Experiences, shared by all successful people (Grof, 2000).

The psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi is known for coining the term Flow in the 1970’s. During years of study, he outlined the concept of being fully immersed in an activity is the key to being in a Flow state. This involved being totally unaware of outside interests and time passed by unnoticed. This optimal experience is achieved by what he termed an autotelic personality type. Which he established to be intrinsically motivated rather than a need for external objectives (Csikszentmihaly, 1992).

Keith Sawyer, who was an early collaborator through his PhD with Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, developed the area of Group Flow. He found that among the key elements for this extreme group concentration, was a sense of shared vision for the task at hand. He studied with jazz musicians, this included close listening and when improvising, 'deep listening'. This Flow state within the group was enhanced by complete concentration, being in control and moving the project continually forward. Finding the balance between innovation and failure, with an abandonment of ego, was imperative during communication, familiarity and equal participation between members (Sawyer, 2008). 

Researchers began to measure this phenomenon throughout the subsequent years. They encompassed Flow questionnaires asking to identify and evaluate when and how being ‘in the zone’ originated (Engeser, 2012). An Experience Sampling Method was devised which required the participants to complete forms at randomly chosen times to record their experiences of being in a Flow state. The researchers, to avoid any unnecessary bias, coded the information. Eventually the wording for Flow changed to that of Runner’s High describing a state of euphoria induced with intensive running. In 1996 in Australia, Doctor Susan Jackson crafted a self-reporting Flow State Scale connected to sports research. This enabled the Flow experience to be both qualitatively and quantitatively monitored. Over the next few years this was refined and she produced a Flow State Scale-2 and a Dispositional Flow Scale-2 (Jackson and Ekland, 2004). These were used to empirically study and measure Dispositional and State Flow Frequency as a phenomenological concept.

There was an adverse effect to pro-active Flow research in 2002. This was due to the president of the Neuroscience Society Huda Akil. She declared in the New York Times that endorphins released into the brain from running were nonsense. “This endorphin-in-runners is a total fantasy in the pop culture” (Kotler, 2008 p209). This caused traditional research into Flow to diminish quite significantly over the next few years.

This paper now leads into how flow has become more recently defined and brings us gradually into present day understanding.

The academic ‘comeback’ for Flow for contemporary acceptance, is Arne Dietrich’s (2003) paper discussing functional neuroanatomy of altered consciousness. He brings it right back in the psychological mainstream by focusing on pre-frontal cortex and showing it becomes deregulated or shut down, when Flow is reached. Dietrich argues that there is a common neural action during altered states of consciousness. Which is now known as transient hypo-frontality.

It is connected to diminished use of the pre-frontal cortex area while engaged in dreaming; runner’s high; drugs; daydreaming; and meditation. He shows how there is a lowering of inhibition and self-awareness when the pre-frontal cortex is not fully engaged and this has a direct impact on inducing a feeling of Flow. His findings have been a benchmark in this field of research that is generally recognized today. There is now an agreement that concentration grows as an ‘efficiency exchange’ from a conscious slower extrinsic mechanism, to a rapidly working subconscious intrinsic system (Kotler, 2004).