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Earlier this year at the Digital World trade show in California, Peter Gabriel demonstrated "XPlora j: Peter Gabriel's Secret World," his latest multimedia release. Other artists who have released interactive kits include David Bowie and Todd Rundgren...
...Todd Rundgren. In No World Order, the veteran singer and producer (Meat Loaf, Grand Funk Railroad) has created the first do-it-yourself album. Listeners with CD-i players can customize any of the 10 tracks to their tastes. They can change the tempo (between 86 and 132 beats a minute), the mix ("natural," "spacious," "sparse" or "karaoke"), the mood ("bright," "happy," "thoughtful," "sad" or "dark"), even the form ("creative," "standard" or "conservative"). They can hatch new sounds by sampling the 933 snatches of music in the data base. Did you ever want to play the chorus of a favorite...
...computer to computer, musician to listener, and everybody's a performance artist. For Gabriel and Rundgren, interactive rock is not just a career move; it is a techno-mission...
...Rundgren bought his first computer in 1979, spent a year learning how to use it and then wrote a software graphics program that executives at Apple liked so much they licensed it. Now he can marry his vocation and his avocation into popular art with a message. "Musicians nowadays tend to use music as much for obfuscation as for revelation," Rundgren says. "I'm trying to use this technology to change it back to revelatory...
Revelatory and, in Rundgren's solo concerts, running amuck. Perched on a small platform beneath 24 blinking video monitors, he sings and "plays" his Apple Powerbook 170 laptop computer, a synthesizer and occasionally even a guitar. Audience members can sing along or swat drum pads and see their images recorded and played back at them, mixed, enhanced and amplified in a potentially infinite variety of ways by Rundgren. There is no set list or running order, no lighting or sound technician; Rundgren, a New Age Wizard of Oz, does...