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COVER STORY
Technology
Kurt Andersen and composer and MIT Media Lab scientist
Tod Machover talk about the convergence of art and digital technology.
 Glitch
Music
A look at electronic music taken to the extreme, using
only computer-generated beeps and hums. Produced by Steve Nelson.
 Go
to Kid 606 website
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to Warp Records website
 Merce
Cunningham
The 82-year-old modern dance master
describes what happened when he began choreographing on a PC. Produced
by Kerrie Hillman. Photo by Jack Mitchell.
Go
to Merce's official website
Go
to Merce Cunningham's Living Sketchbook
Analog
Or Digital?
A writer, film editor, and graphic designer admit their
ambivalent relationships to technology. Produced by Sara Fishko.
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to Milton Glaser, Inc website
Go
to New York Times page on Joyce Carol Oates
Go
to Austin Chronicle article on Chip Kidd
SOUND PORTRAIT
 Typing
Explosion
Three Seattle
women improvise and write poems collectively, in costume, on-demand, and
on-stage with props that include typewriters, horns, bells and whistles.
Produced by Harriet Baskas. Typing Explosionists, Union Local 898 photo
by Diona Mavis.
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to Seattle Post-Intelligencer article
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to show description
SPECIAL GUEST
 Tod
Machover
Tod Machover is a composer and Professor of Music &
Media at MIT's Media Laboratory. His music uses highly eclectic combinations
of electronic and acoustic sound, and his compositions have been performed
around the world. His future projects include a new opera, Twelve Looney
Tones: Schoenberg in Hollywood and the Toy Symphony.
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to Tod's website
Go
to MIT media lab page
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Now
Playing
"Bride Of The Wind." Director Bruce
Beresford and composer Stephen Endelman talk about the challenge of
scoring a new movie about the tempestuous marriage of Gustav and Alma
Mahler. Produced by Susan Scheuer.
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to Bride of the Wind website
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to a Mahler website
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