The Wings of Nike (1987) preview
Beauty
and the Beast (1989) preview part 1 part 2 part 3 part 4
Lawrence Cherney, oboe d’amore &
English horn
Song of
Songs (1992) preview
Lawrence Cherney, oboe d’amore & English horn
Night of the Conjurer (1992) preview
Note: all of the previews are
compressed and reduced in size for online viewing
These videos are the complete collaborative works
between two composers, Theo Goldberg who created the images with the
aid of Vax and Amiga computers, and Barry Truax who created the music
with real-time granular
synthesis and Frequency
Modulation sound synthesis between 1985 and 1992.
The disc includes Divan,
and The Wings of Nike (three
movements), one of whose images appears below; Beauty and the Beast
and Song of
Songs, with oboeist and English horn
player Lawrence Cherney; Pacific Dragon and Ocean (two of the movements
from Pacific),
and
the video collaboration, Night of the Conjurer. Please
click on these links for details about each piece.
Click here to order an uncompressed DVD Video of these
works.
A complete documentation analysis of the Wings of Nike and Song of Songs (with still images) is also available on a DVD-ROM.
Technical note
The computer images realized with a Vax at the
University of British Columbia in Vancouver were produced by a Ramtek
frame buffer and Metheus monitor display, controlled by customized
software by Robert Ross based on the LIG language. The music was
synthesized by the DMX-1000 Digital Signal Processor controlled by a
PDP Micro-11 computer with software for real-time granular synthesis
developed by Barry Truax in the Centre for the Arts at Simon Fraser
University.
