Word: projector
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Filled to the brim with eager Matmos fans, the small auditorium had been transformed from a dreary review session cave into an impromptu audiovisual showcase, with the room’s projector screen looming above racks of mixers, keyboards and laptops. Stranger sounds probably never emerged from Science Center D. Guest artist Keith Fullerton Whitman, best known as glitchcore renegade Hrvatski, began his half-hour set with lo-fi guitar twangs that quickly dissolved into a hypnotic ocean of swirling sonic detritus, electronic squalls, static bombs, gurgles and crackles...
...plastic balls that he ran through his mouth, the boredom that often accompanies live electronic shows was nowhere to be found. The pair, who are well known for using sounds as diverse as inflating balloons, liposuction surgery and amplified crayfish nerve tissue as musical elements, used the projector screen to lift their music out of the anonymous studio...
...rooms when we'd be out all night? Come evening, Aidai took me on the local disco crawl. Consisting of tracksuited Slavic youths throbbing to Russian and Turkish pop, the scene was not exactly sophisticated. One place offered little more than loudspeakers on an outdoor basketball court and a projector showing Britney Spears videos in reverse. Luckily, the cheap Moldovan wine flowed copiously...
...doesn't have to be this way. The latest digital-projection systems, which run from digital-data files rather than reels of film, can deliver images as sharp and rich as the best film print, without ever degrading. After viewing a demonstration of a projector using Texas Instruments' DLP Cinema technology, Soderbergh says, "I thought, 'Why don't we have this everywhere?' It's like seeing a pristine camera negative print every time." The quality of digital projection--which works for movies shot on film and later converted, as well as for digital or computer-generated movies--is no secret...
...Sweet Smell of Success' destroyed us all," said Mackendrick, who would never again direct a major Hollywood film. But that's press-agent reverse-spin. In the projector lamp of history, no one cares whether the film's makers had a good time or whether the film was a commercial and critical flop. (TIME did put it on its 1957 Ten Best list.) What matters is the creepy, elevated pleasure it gives today. The movie proves how savory and nourishing a cookie full of arsenic...