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(00:19:32)
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Nafta Boy Episode 3
(00:03:30)
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Nafta Boy Episode 2
(00:03:20)
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Nafta Boy Episode 1
(00:03:20)
From: Claes Andreasson
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(01:51:18)
From: Claes Andreasson
The effects of the nuclear weapons tests in Nevada on people working at, and living downwind from the test site
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From: Claes Andreasson
Whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg who released the Pentagon Papers in 1971 talks about the Valerie Plame-CIA affair
Related Pieces
Piece Description
Imagine ever so lightly touching a butterfly pupa, feeling the tiny mechanical motions inside. Transform the motions into sound, and you can listen to the butterfly's metamorphosis. This is what nano scientist James Gimzewski and media arts professor Victoria Vesna, of Univ. of California-Los Angeles did. They felt and listened and created an interactive exhibit with extreme close-up photographs and the sound of the chrysalis' agonizing fight to become a pretty blue butterfly. Recently, they installed the exhibit in a very special building, The Integratron, in the high Mojave Desert east of Los Angeles. This is the story about the the Blue Morph.
Broadcast History
The Blue Morph airs on one of Swedish National Public Radio's special internet radio channels, where you can also watch photos and video along with the audio documentary.
Late last year (2007) I produced a background story about the Blue Morph for WNYC's "Studio 360" - which is available to preview at:
http://www.studio360.org/episodes/2007/12/07/segments/89690
Transcript
The Blue Morph features:
Victoria Vesna, media artist and professor at the department of Design| Media Arts at the UCLA School of the Arts
James Gimzewski, distinguished professor, UCLA chemistry & biochemistry department
Exhibit Production: Tyler Adams
Andreas Colubri
Stefanie Adcock
Exhibit Audio: Gil Kuno
Butterfly Recordings: Andrew Pelling
Paul Wilkinson
Adam Stieg
Butterfly Audio: Claes Andreasson
Still photo: Victoria Vesna & Claes Andreasson
Recordist & Producer: Claes Andreasson
Read the full transcript
Timing and Cues
The Blue Morph can either play as one half-hour piece. Or it can be divided into segments:
START -- 1:21 (fully faded out)
ACT 1 -- 11:14 (fully faded out)
SCIENTIFIC INTERLUDE -- 2:58 (fully faded out)
ACT 2 -- 14:49 (fully faded out)
Suggested host intro:
Imagine ever so lightly touching a butterfly pupa, feeling the tiny mechanical motions inside. Transform the motions into sound, and you can listen to the butterfly's metamorphosis.
This is what nano scientist James Gimzewski and media arts professor Victoria Vesna, of Univ. of California-Los Angeles did. They felt and listened and created an interactive exhibit with extreme close-up photographs and the sound of the chrysalis' agonizing fight to become a pretty blue butterfly.
Recently, they installed the exhibit in a very special building, The Integratron, in the high Mojave Desert east of Los Angeles.
This is the story about the the Blue Morph.
Additional Files
- The Integratron (integratron2.jpg)
- The hat 3 (hat3.jpg)
- Butterflywing (butterflywing.jpg)
- The hat 1 (hat.jpg)
- The hat 2 (hat2.jpg)
- The Blue Morph (bluemorph2.jpg)
- Victoria Vesna (victoria2.jpg)
- James Gizewski (right) (jim.jpg)
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Review of The Blue Morph
"it's not so easy to become a fabulous being.'"
the transformation of a lowly caterpillar to a transcendent butterly is agonizing. the sounds are primordial, futuristic, and extraordinary--the sounds of outer space (if there was sound in outer space). what a gift to hear the atomic force microscope in an artwork.
the microcosm reflects the macrocosm in sound. if you seek, you will hear.