 Okay, hello everyone, my name's Joel and this is Ralph. We're from a contemporary performance company called BenchCulture. So do I just tap this? We've got a little device that we've mocked up for a sort of read-the-room sort of device, but I won't explain too much. We'll just demonstrate how it works. So just tap this. Is this real good to go? So basically, the first trigger is just activated by a simple clap. We can try. Oh, do you? Are you going backwards, Ralph? All right, we'll try again. Yeah, we do a lot of this sort of thing. So clap. We might just have to skip that bit. Oh no, I can hear it. It's just really quiet. The third track is triggered by an absence of sound or gesture. Okay, here we go. So now we just need to keep quiet. The fourth track is triggered by a minimum 85% of the audience thinking of a pink elephant. The fifth and final track is triggered by the audience applauding riotously. Closing up. Well done. We have triggered all the tracks. Okay, so we're still ironing out a few of the kinks in that one, but maybe you get the idea. Over the past few years, Joel and I have been exploring different ways of making audio-based theatrical experiences for solo users. And in doing this, we've had to kind of learn to balance our desire to explore new opportunities offered by technology with a need to really dig into what's possible with the tools that we already have, such as an MP3 track. In other words, if this device were actually real, that'd be great, but it would be a long road for us to figure out how to make it work and what to do with it. And we found it's easy to overlook the journey that you need to take when you get cool new technology with and it's easy to forget about the potential of the tools that you already have. I'm going to grab the clicker there, Joel. So we've done a range of experiments with quite simple technology. This is a musical retelling of Pocahontas for your local supermarket. It's called Into the New World. This is a touristic experience for public parks this next one. And both of these are created just with MP3 tracks. But our first project was an unauthorized audio guide to Te Papa. And this was a single 40-minute audio track. And even with this simple technology, we spent a long time grappling with how to use it. Did a lot of testing and retesting in this space. And I'll add that we made this before I began. My current role as a writer here at Te Papa so hence the unauthorized tag. So what we'll play for you now is from the end of the tour and this is where the forces of evil are really closing in on you. So just outside of the toilet, we're going to head out towards the centre of the museum. Stop. Stop right there. Tie your shoes. Tie your shoes right now. You've been compromised. You need to do exactly what we say when we say it, okay? Okay, stop tying your shoes and stand up. See the walker. Hit toward it, but turn right down the corridor. Okay, past the house. Hurry, we've got to move. Okay, make like you're heading towards those trees. Duck left, duck left into the alcove. Wait here. Okay, act like you're playing with the touchscreen. Okay, on my mark, go back out. Okay, five, four, three, two, one, now. Okay, out and left. Head towards the palm trees, past the walker thing. Okay, towards the trees. Keep that corned beef bowl to your left. To the left, at the trees. Okay, now slow, slow down. Head through this part of the museum casually. Turn slightly left and head toward the glowing boards with friendly faces on them. That woman, I think she's one of them. Middle-aged woman, negative. I think she's reaching for something. Not a threat. Stand the line you're on, do not deviate. Keep hitting toward those smiling glowing faces. Yeah, so that was the first one. And, you know, we found that we could do quite a lot with just a very limited sort of palette, so to speak, technological palette. Already we're sort of able to create an experience which creates a theatrical experience outside of a theatre that puts the audience in the role of the protagonist. And then we sort of, we did a few of those in different sort of styles and genres. I mean, we got really excited about doing something that would be kind of like outrageously huge over the whole city, GPS triggering, you know, people could kind of like, you know, interact with the whole city in a kind of fictional and blowing a fictional and reality in a kind of interesting way. And that had a lot of technical difficulties as you saw before. We struggled with operating simple technology. So we spent a lot of time grappling with that and trying to solve that. And then we actually found that if we just downsized not only were we able to achieve what we wanted to do a lot easier, but we also managed to having that restriction, restricted technology, so in this case it was more like a museum guide where you put in the numbers and stuff. When you get to the different parts of the city, you could get, we had that restriction which helped our creativity and helped our creative process. So we're just going to do a little bit, if we've got a little bit of time, since we're the last ones I think we can probably get away with it. I don't know. We'll just do a little, just a few seconds from this work in progress, which, so you come up to this parking meter, which we're generally on the plane. If you press a bit. Hello, Trevor. You come up onto the shrines. So there's two kinds of shrines. Is the older kind, and they sort of look like a forked tree. And the others are more of an old log, almost like a coffin shape, the size of a child. There's a certain same function, that's just for the period that they were made. Okay, so what you can do is just walk up to the train and just bow once. And then you take out a coin. It can be any coin, but gold coins are usually considered to be the most lucky. You take the coin and you place it into, do you see a little slot? So you can do that now. And by doing that, what this does is it's seeing the coin kind of symbolic back to the center of the earth. And then you step back to the shrine and you just clap twice. And just pray that we don't all die from climate change. And then just a little bow again. And that's it.