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twisted sense of time. Those who have visited my office have no doubt acquired a new idiomatic expression, 'time to do the red shift', meaning time to run, see you later, adios, ciao. THE LIGHTNING Box Pauline Oliveros, 156 Hunter Street, Kingston, NY 12401, U.SA The Lightning Box (1990) is a onehour collaborative sound meditation with computer-controlled delay processors and lighting. It was created under my direction during a residency in the Media Arts Program at the Banff Centre in Alberta, Canada. The Lightning Box calls for the players , as they are listening to the sounds that they are currently playing, to also listen for and respond to repetitions and modifications of their own sounds as well as to each other. Sound from each player is picked up by microphones and is then processed by computer-controlled digital delays. The delay times are changed by a program that results in transposition and pitch bending of each player's sound in a variety of forms and speeds ordinarily not accessible in real-time performance. Computer-controlled lighting design conducts the ensemble. The computer programs were written by Cornelia Colyer, in collaboration with me. The digital interface that allows direct program control of the delay processors was constructed especially for this project by David Ward of PanDigital Corporation. The Ughtning Box was performed at the Banff Centre in February 1990 with the following personnel: Pauline Oliveros, accordion; Michael Century, keyboard; Panaiotis, voice and mix; Trevor Tureski, marimba; Cornelia Colyer, programmer; Colin Griffiths, set design and technical coordinator. BICYCLE TV: SOME INTERACTIVE ExERCISE Nancy Paterson, 475 The West Mall #1513, Etobicoke, Ontario, Canada M9C 4Z3. Bicycle TV (copyrighted in Canada) consists of a 1950s-style bicycle with a color monitor mounted in front, facing the cyclist. Also included are a videodisc player, a front wheel direction -sensing device and a rear wheel 488 Words On Works motion-detector assembly. These devices are linked to the videodisc through a programmable audio/ video controller. A viewer/cyclist may cycle up to a crossroads and steer the bicycle to proceed in any direction. The videodisc player is capable of playing at half-speed, normal speed, and 2 x speed. This means that the video, which was shot at approximately 17 miles per hour, can be sped up or slowed down by the rider simply by pedalling faster or slower. In the preproduction stage, a branching system (a maze that operates within a grid) was designed and a large production grid was researched. There are a limited number of road segments that can fit on the videodisc , so the production grid was designed to keep the rider contained within a set 'world'. Cyclists cannot 'fall off the edge of the disc', no matter which way they choose to turn. The original videotape was shot in and around the small, scenic town of Belfountain, Ontario, near the forks of the Credit River. Footage of winding country roads offers different paths to the viewer/cyclist within the 'world' offered by the videodisc. INSECT MYTHOLOGY INSECT TECHNOLOGY Paul Rutkovskv, 227 Westridge Dr., Tallahassee, FL 32304, U .SA Insect Mythology Insect Technology is a fabricated civilization created as a sitespecific proposal for the Metro-Dade Art in Public Places Trust in southern Florida. To develop a pseudo-history and visual representation of insect architecture , I utilized personal computers to generate graphic images. Four locations were chosen for simulated excavation sites revealing insects and their structures. Each site represented a different geologic time in the insect civilization, beginning two million years ago and leading to its decline a million and a half years later. Digging activity, equipment and materials were still apparent on one active site. I described the pseudo-history of Insect Mythology Insect Technology in this way: An ancient civilization of insects indigenous to Florida thrived on Key Biscaynetwo million years ago. They inhabited almost everysquare foot of the Keybut dominated the area that later became Crandon Zoo. On the old zoo site, the insects built an advanced civilization that has mystifiedand baffled entomologists, anthropologists, archaeologists and scientists ever since remains of the civilizationwere first discovered in 1979,shortly before the zoo closed. Four major excavation sites, including...

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