Word: audio
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...David Frost speaking to millions of Americans coast-to-coast--or rather, his lips were moving, but no sound was coming out. For a moment we froze, remembering the silence that marked the first Carter-Ford debate last fall, and other gaps in other tapes. But at last the audio portion of our program was restored to us; Frost saying,"...had no control over anything. Richard Nixon and Watergate in a moment...
...next number: a pink plastic pleasure machine, with which he caressed his bony pelvis in mock ecstasy between stanzas. As the set ended, the star slithered on his belly among the drums, to caustic chords and dimming lights, his death-throes ceasing as the audio-feedback whined and faded into applause...
...spent a month improvising, trying to squeeze characters out of the Sitwell poetry, while a photographer snapped glamourous pictures of the cast which are projected on the huge screens during the performance. But, unlike Chorus Line, the actors in Facade have an insurmountable obstacle--they must remain mute. The audio portion of the second act is provided by a replay of a commercial recording of the Facade poem...
...time." A connoisseur and collector of art, Pompidou was dismayed by Paris' gradual loss of stature as an art capital. He dreamed of a building that would be "both a museum and a center for creation, where the plastic arts would exist alongside music, cinema, books, audio-visual research. Its creativity would obviously be modern and continually changing." The location: Beaubourg, once a bourgeois neighborhood between the Bastille and Les Halles, but for the past century a decaying slum. Specifically, planners chose a five-acre patch of razed ground that was being used as a parking lot, then called...
...album, Low, reflects the technological changes that time has brought to his music; it has had so radical an effect that the album can hardly be classified as rock. Only 5 of the 11 tracks qualify as songs. Bowie has shifted gears from singing to composing, and in his audio playpen of the latest electronic gadgets he has formulated an album of, not rock ballads, but cosmic tone poems. Unlike his earlier albums, the focus in Low is on environment rather than melody, on synthesized effects rather than traditional rock arrangements. The recording is impressive: textures are clear and sharply...