“Whispers in a Plane of Light” by Gillerman and Piche – ACM SIGGRAPH HISTORY ARCHIVES

“Whispers in a Plane of Light” by Gillerman and Piche




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    Whispers in a Plane of Light

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  • Viper Optics

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    A live video/music collaboration, this performance has been performed at DIGICON ?83 in Vancouver, British Columbia; CADRE ?84 in Santa Clara, California; and, in Oakland, California in 1984. ?It is an exciting, very sensual performance?… Creative Computing, April 1984 issue

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    HARDWARE: Sandin image processor for analog switching and
    mixing, Fairlight sound synthesizer, Aurora
    Videographics System for digital computer graphics

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    Video: Jo Ann Gillerman
    Sound: Jean Piche”
    Camera: Jim Whiteaker
    Model: Gretchen Bright Computer graphics done on an Aurora Videographics System, TBC supplied by Borman & Associates, Inc.


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    Format: 9:30; 3/4″; sound

    Technical notes:
    This is the tape resulting from a live, collaborative
    video/music performance. The Fairlight provided
    several control voltages that were directly patched
    to the several video input images being mixed/
    keyed on the analog video processor.

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