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Excerpts from an hour-long live cable access show featuring acoustically enhanced video and recursive projection.

Sky Saw

electronic zithers, video synthesizers, and improvisational dance

As with many of the live TV events presented by the Somerville Producer"s Group, the show that aired on September 30 2003 was not scripted or rehearsed in any way. The musicians had never met the dancers, and only a few of the members of the studio crew had ever worked with any of the performers. However, there was a strong tradition of producing music shows at SCAT on alternate Tuesday evenings, and most everyone was prepared for the inclusion of the acoustically reactive video synthesis made possible by Melodicon, which was to be mixed into the video stream directly and also projected behind and upon the musicians and dancers themselves.

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Melodicon: paint with sound, sing with light

Somerville Comunity Access Television: public television by and for the Somerville community

Sky Saw: merging psychedelic shred rock with electronica, trance, and free improv

Somerville Producer\'s Group: live cable access programming for the greater Boston area

 

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The Somerville Producer's Group Presents: "Sky Saw"

 

musicians: Yuri Zbitnoff (drums and percussion), Corey Redonnett (electronic zither and samples), David Pek (woodwinds and brass)

dancers: Olivier Besson, Liz Roncka, Ali Essakali

 

produced by: Scott Bowden

directed by: Lisa Klingbiel

projection and editing by: Michael Hall

crew: Charlie Tesch, Rachel Eisengart, Dave Barnes, Ricardo Pineda, Marco Beaulieu, Lee Stuart, Jeanne Flanagan

many thanks to: Somerville Community Access Television

Dead Air Live  is copyright (c) 2004 by the Somerville Producer's Group.

 

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