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The whackers are a number of individual solenoids that have the capability of striking objects in their proximity when told to do so by a computer. In this case they were installed in the San Francisco Art Commission Gallery which was full of large sound sculpture objects designed by Tom Nunn and Bob. B. Hobbs. These sculptures included large suspended sheets of steel with brass rods welded to them, a piano harp, a suspended automobile fuel tank, and a circular sheet of steel suspended on balloons. The development of the whackers grew out of the notion that some visceral aspect of the act of making and listening to music is inherently missing when the loudspeaker is used exclusively. Rhythm and amplitude were controlled partly by Tim's manipulation of real time parameters and partly by the characteristics of the objects themselves. In the meantime as "Whackmeister" Perkis madly twiddled knobs, I ran around trying to make sure my little whackers were hitting their mark.

Scott Gresham-Lancaster.

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from THE HUB (ART 1002, 1989), released July 30, 1989
Composer: Scot Gresham-Lancaster
Performers: Scot Gresham-Lancaster, Tim Perkis
Recorded at San Francisco Art Commission Gallery 10/15/88
Engineer: Philip Perkins

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ARTIFACT RECORDINGS is a project of Ubu, Incorporated, an artist-run, non-profit organization supporting experimental and electronic music based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Our download and compact disk series is dedicated to representing a living experimental music tradition that continues to thrive in the cracks between the commercial, academic and classical music establishments. ... more

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