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Re: [microsound] "Expanded Cinema"



On 7/15/02 at 10:50 AM, pelagius pelagius <pela_gius@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I second that recommendation, it's a great book.  What I find
> really intriguing is the information about the series of
> experimental video shows done at KQED in the late '60s/early
> '70s.  The most famous one probably being Music With Balls (or
> For Balls?)  with Terry Riley playing his time-lag-accumulator
> on a set of metallic balloons and video feedback!
> 
> Has anyone seen any of those old KQED shows?  The only
> information I could find online the last time I looked was that
> some group was in the process of trying to have them restored. 
> I can't imagine growing up watching that kind of stuff on
> public television!  Though by the time I was a kid KQED was
> showing lots of Doctor Who which is even better!

Electronic Arts Intermix in NYC is the distributor for a lot of this
stuff.

There's also that amazing video rental place (Crossroads? Currents?) in
Chicago that has an extensive collection of these videos.

KQED wasn't the only place doing this stuff. There was John Godfrey's TV
Lab at WNET (Global Groove was done for that show, I believe) and the
PBS station in Southern Massachusetts was quite active.

EAI was part of, and I think inherited, the archive of the NYS Media
Arts Centers which include the animation lab at SUNY Oneonta...

Try the link at:
http://www.experimentaltvcenter.org/history/index.html
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