6673 (1973)

It was difficult to find labs where I could make copies of my first tape however I found a place near LaGuardia Airport called Video Flight They agreed to copy my tape And while they were doing this I saw test patterns and other electronic images on the monitors that excited me I spoke with the young engineers and decided to collaborate with them returning to make a second tape of the electronic images This manipulation of the test patterns became my second tape The sound heard on the tape was from an oscilloscope which I controlled and through the sound I manipulated the images later in the tape there is the sound of my own voice improvising as I reacted to the images In 1973 Public Television in New York City Channel 13 opened a new television lab and gave some artists access to it The 55minute black and white tape from 1966 described above was reprocessed in 1973 at Channel 13 using the PaikAbe Video Synthesizer thus the title 6673