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the computer rings the telephoneLeif Brushpassaroundsound.net

Yellow Springs Institute, August 1, 1987

underground sounding

Daytime installation views of parallel buried and overhead speakers, five inch buried speakers (sprayed with SCOTCH GUARD) covered with protective metal grilles and a "trolley" system down page.

All were monitored and controlled inside the studio from this "Lightning" device. --recycled version

Overhead "trolly" speakers and the yet-to-be-buried speakers.

Speakers snake between nearby trees and shrubs towards an out of sight pit.

*this moonless midnight performance concluded from this pit with an amplified explosive (w/fire crackers) underground fire. When it was bulldozed oped during the afternoon no one knew that we were within four feet of a natural gas pipeline.

(Robert Ashley drops by)

1999 Cellphones and Telcos: The FCC' ruled that phone companies will have to equip their cellular towers to allow court-authorized traces on cellular phone calls and to equip their services so that wiretaps can be made of conference calls; The Finally Earns its Keep , Minneapolis Institue of Arts, 1989-- Performance::slide projections / imported quad-source sound from Duluth Terrain Instruments and trees / electronics

The modified telephone was used to bring punched-up Duluth soundsources into the auditorium using this modified keypad. A t1 telephone line and satellite interconnection was set up between the Duluth Terrain Instruments and the Minneapolis Institute of Art. The overall sound process was controlled via a modified telephone and mixing colsole. The imported sounds were amplified in the auditorium from this KSJN ((StPaul Minn)) satellite downlink. Slide imaging of clouds intermixed with topological satellite-scans and the Duluth Terrain Instruments were projected on the walls and provided resources in great scale for the eyes to accompany the naturally-monitored, spatially big sounds.

Lake Baikal (context) of interactive(motion-sensing) sound installation, **Disorienting & encircling two-way sound cycled lake Baikal from floor model- w/endless cycles in opposing circles of soundings from five Terrain Instrument mobius cassette/players** Tweed Museum, Duluth

Detail of Lake Baikal(satellite dish beams distress calls & ongoing data from the dried lake bottom)