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Intel 8080SDK microprocessor (2005)

This soundwork was part of an ongoing satellite series of interactive events emanating from Terrain Instruments in Duluth Minnesota, US.

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From the Walker Art Center, Duluth Terrain Instrument sounds were beamed to the site via modulated laser which was amplified in adjacent, overhead trees. A large variety of Shadow sensors were placed in the overhead trees which were listened to for "silent" wind-jostled sounds from leaves and limbs. Simultaneously- from a different input source- Westar V satellite-delivered Terrain Instrument soundings from Duluth, Minnesota, US were melded and used twice: (1) during the performance these were amped to speakers in overhead trees nearer to the pond and accompanied Sharon Friedler and Will Swanson, wearing their waist band beltsaddleharps with FM transmitters; (2) other channels were fed via the Terrain Instrument 202 microprocessor outputs and were based on key-control assignments of specific scenarios into the two diagonal speaker-laden planes hovering above the grassy performance locale.
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The Terraplane Chorography IV Speaker "umbelical" cabling from the 202 microprocessor snaked its way overhead and connected with all speakers in the parallel planes; 200-5 inch speakers were combined with the the outputs from nearby trees (branches, leaves, limbs) via the Terrain Instrument 202 and the KSJN-downlinked satellite channels and all of these sounds were funneled through the micro into the planes of speakers fed from the multiple 5watt amplifiers within the Intel 8080 microprocessor. The resulting 'experientiall-soundings' were of nature playing nature, resulting in hovering and pillowed spatial envelopes.
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