Tele Techno Notes

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• Tele Techno Conference Bibliography

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• Tele-Techno Phone Conferences Chronology

  Tele-Techno Phone Conferences, coordinated by Lanesville TV, was a regularly scheduled series of telephone conferences to discuss technical issues; its objective was to share information on technical problems, repairs and modifications to 1/2" video recording technology and computer/video interfaces and to discuss ways media centers could work together to solve equipment access and repair problems. Participants included Carl Geiger (Innervision), Kevin Kenney (Media Equipment Resource Center), Chuck Heuer (Portable Channel), Chuck Kennedy and Parry Teasdale (Lanesville TV), Don McArthur and Dave Jones (Experimental Television Center), and Ken Jesser (Intermedia Art Center); first conference call on May 15, 1975.

• Techno-Conference Chronology

  Techno-Conference convened at Lanesville TV on October 10–11, 1975; participants included Carl Geiger (Innervision), Kevin Kenney (Media Equipment Resource Center), Chuck Heuer (Portable Channel), Chuck Kennedy and Parry Teasdale (Lanesville TV), Don McArthur and Dave Jones (Experimental Television Center), Ken Jesser (Media Study/Buffalo), Bill Claghorn (Adwar Video Corporation), and Paul Lamarre (Textronix). Agenda items included microprocessor systems, equipment insurance, Super 8, new circuits, and discussion of future telephone conferences.

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  The essay traces the genealogy of interactivity in avant-garde video from nineteenth-century shifts in communal practices and the 1876 introduction of the telephone to contemporary machine-mediated intimacy; it argues that technological developments shortened distances and fostered new models of social connection. It situates the genesis of video art in the late 1960s following Sony's 1968 1/2-inch equipment, surveys artists and movements (including Nam June Paik, Douglas Davis, Alan Kaprow) and venues such as WGBH, WNET, and KQED, and discusses cable public-access, satellite projects, and interactive videodisk experiments. Specific projects cited include Douglas Davis's 1970s broadcasts, Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowitz's Hole in Space (1980), Nam June Paik's Good Morning Mr. Orwell (1984), and the Lister Hill Center's 1971 New Hampshire-Vermont Interactive Network.

• History of Electronic Sound Modification Bibliography

  Harald Bode surveys the history of electronic sound modification from 1896 to the present, tracing electromechanical precursors such as Thaddeus Cahill’s Telharmonium and instruments of the electronic era including the Trautonium, Hammond Novachord, RCA synthesizer and Moog modular systems; he documents technologies and effects including filters, envelope shaping, vocoder/voder, ring modulation, delay lines, tape techniques, flanging, phasing, frequency shifters, harmonizers and reverberation. The essay cites developments and devices by Les Paul, Eventide, Marshall and others, lists patents and publications, and notes presentations in 1980–81; manuscript courtesy Harald Bode and Peer Bode, published in J. Audio Engineering Society, October 1984.