Category Archives: Theatre

CymaSpace Press Release: “Mouth Language Device”

June 7th 2021.

Well-intentioned hearing inventors have been trying for years to create devices that help Deaf folks translate American Sign Language to written and/or spoken English. The devices, which look like gloves decked out with technical wires and sensors, are cumbersome. Because they are not invented with Deaf input, they are also mostly ineffective. CymaSpace imagines what it would be like to turn the tables and have Deaf people create a device for hearing folks to translate their speech to sign language in this comedy sketch: “Mouth Language Device.”


This pioneering short video brings to bear all the technical video skills we have been up-skilling our team and developing over the last two years at the CymaSpace studio. For the first time ever, a film shoot was able to occur in Virtual Reality and incorporate Sign Language with the ASL performer streaming live from Washington D.C to Portland Oregon where the Director guided them through the shots. An estimated 500 volunteer hours went into this project including scriptwriting, casting costumes and filming. Our green screen studio patches physical performers into seamless virtual worlds. 3D backgrounds for “Mouth Language Device” were created in Unreal Engine, post production compositing in Aximmetry, and editing in Premiere. Our technical software, camera and lighting resources produce a virtual production unequaled by any Deaf-led media studio. 

Thanks to our sponsors for making this film possible; Open Signal, Aximmetry, Regional Arts and Culture Council, Collings Foundation and Oregon Community Foundation

Please contact Myles de Bastion () for any queries or if you would like to present our short film at your event.

Special CymaSpace discount to ASL Interpreted Performance of Overview Effect

CymaSpace is pleased to partner with Portland Center Stage and Tylor Neist by offering discounted tickets to an ASL interpreted matinee multi-sensory performance of Overview Effect. Guests can expect an exciting fusion of voice narration (made accessible through ASL interpretation), NASA footage, electronic soundscapes and sound-reactive theatre magic and backed by the Bridgetown Orchestra.

Location
Portland Center Stage / Ellyn Bye Studio
128 NW 11th Ave, Portland

Date
Thursday, April 21, 2016 from 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM (PDT)

Purchase Tickets
Discounted Tickets for CymaSpace Patrons.

Overview Effect by Portland composer and musician Tylor Neist takes us on an immersive theatrical and musical journey through the cosmos to explore the link between our inner and outer worlds. This innovative, hour-long performance is a perfectly distilled and seamlessly interwoven capsule of art and information that inspires self-reflection.

“Tylor Neist’s dramatic chamber-ensemble score controls the tone of the evening marvelously”
– Marty Hughley, The Oregonian

Neist’s gorgeous and mesmerizing musical score combines with breathtaking Hubble Telescope projections and historic Apollo footage to glorious affect. Further powered by live orchestra, electronic soundscapes, spoken word, theater magic, Portland Center Stage’s intimate Ellyn Bye Studio will come alive with possibility.

To receive your discount to the ASL interpreted performance, please follow the special eventbrite link to purchase tickets at $20 (full price $45), up to 1 hour before the show begins at 2pm, Thursday 21st 2016.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/overview-effect-tickets-20722292936?discount=CYMASPACE

Special CymaSpace Discounted tickets “The Liar” ASL Interpreted Show on June 20th 2015 at Artists Repertory Theatre

In a special collaboration between CymaSpace & Artists Repertory Theatre, we are excited to offer a special discount to patrons of CymaSpace for an ASL interpreted theatrical production of “The Liar” on June 20th 2015.

Show description:

From the brilliant, comedic mind of David Ives (All in the Timing, Venus in Fur) comes a hilarious “translaptation” of this 17th Century French romp, replete with wild misassumptions, mistaken identities and tangled truths. Played out in outrageously clever verse, expect lightning-fast pace, anachronistic twists and a hip cast, with plenty of nods to Corneille’s neo-classical original.

To receive your discounted tickets:

Visit the Online Ticket Bookings Link: http://tickets.artistsrep.org/single/SelectSeating.aspx?p=4904
Promo Code: CYMASPACE
Price Type: CYMASPACE
Price: $10.00 (over 75% discount!)
Restrictions: Valid only for Saturday, June 20 2:00 PM matinee performance of “The Liar” at Artists Rep
Note: Seating will be assigned for all web sales. To request seating in our interpreted section or for any other special requests, please contact Artist Rep via email.