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<H2><CENTER>Compositions by Bill Alves</CENTER></H2>

<H3><CENTER>Information about <EM>Hiway 70</EM>, a computer video</CENTER></H3>

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<STRONG>Duration:</STRONG> 11:00<BR>
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<STRONG>Notes:</STRONG><BR>
A number of years ago, I had the privilege of working with computer animation pioneer <A HREF="http://www.siggraph.org/artdesign/profile/whitney/whitney.html">John Whitney</a>, and we had planned visual and music composition software that would put into practice his ideas on the complementarity of sound and vision. Unfortunately, he died in 1995, just as I had found the funds to begin to realize this vision. <i>Hiway 70</i> is the first piece I've done which makes use of this computer animation software, and in the work I've tried to create a vision inspired by long night drives on lonely Texas highways. The soundtrack was realized in <A HREF="http://www.csound.org">Csound</a> computer music language and utilizes computer modifications of traffic sounds, as well as electric guitars and other sources. The so-called "free style" <A HREF="http://www.dnai.com/~jinetwk/">just intonation</a> in this work exploits Csound's ability to freely modulate without needing the compromises of an instrument with a limited number of keys. Many of the images of the video were used as a visual analogue to the harmonic relationships of just intonation, a relationship also inspired by Whitney.<p>

<STRONG>Major Screenings:</STRONG>
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<LI>October 1997, Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, California
<LI>November 1997, Harvey Mudd College
<LI>February 1998, Pomona College
<LI>March 1998, University of Arizona
<LI>April 1998, Arizona State University Art Museum Short Film and Video Festival
<LI>April 1998, Milwaukee: Video Salon '98
<LI>April 1998, Montage -- Harrisburg Independent Film Festival, PA
<LI>April 1998, Cooperstown NY: Not Still Art Festival
<LI>May 1998, Santa Anna, CA: Santoro International Short Film Festival
<LI>July 1998, San Francisco: Artists' Television Access
<LI>September 1998, Kobe, Japan: International Computer Music Festival
<LI>Nov. 1999 Scripps College
<LI>Jan. 2000 Bijou Matinee, Manhattan Cable
<LI>Apr. 2001 University of South Carolina annual computer music concert
<LI>July 2002 Los Angeles: Gallery 825
<LI>May 1998 - present: Included in <a href="http://www.offlinenetworks.com/">Offline</a>, a syndicated cable television series, which broadcasts in various cities around the U.S.
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Commercially distributed on the internet by <a href="http://www.cinemanow.com/">CinemaNow.com</a>.
<p><strong>Publication:</strong>
Csound score and orchestra included on CD-ROM accompanying <a href="http://mitpress.mit.edu/e-books/csound/fpage/pub/csbook/csbook.html"><cite>The Csound Book</cite></a>, edited by Richard Boulanger.
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<address>Updated on July 24, 2002 by Bill Alves (<A HREF="mailto:alves@hmc.edu">alves@hmc.edu</A>).</address>  

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