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JAM
EXHIBITION
BARBICAN
LONDON
1996
A
HEX COMMISSION
Concept
and design
Robert Pepperell
Dianne Harris
Coding
Miles Visman
Additional
material
Coldcut
Stuart Warren-Hill
Commissioned
by
Barbican Art Gallery 1996
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Synopticon
is a digital culture synthesiser in which the user can 'remix' sounds,
images, text and music in a partially random, partially controlled way.
Audiovisual material is stored on a computer in 6 categories: Sport,
Art, Sex, Technology, Nature and Ideas. The media sequenced in random
clips are activated by pressing one of 6 buttons on a console. Simultaneously
generating a musical backdrop by randomly accessing and sequencing a
large libary of sounds.
As with the Generator the intention is to produce a system which allows
people with no technical training to engage in audiovisual remixing
that DJ's and VJ's perform in clubs.
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