Around About (1980)

In 197980 I was teaching in the Media Studies Department at the State University of New York at Buffalo filling in for Woody and Steina Vasulka who had left for Santa Fe Midway in the year I abruptly had to leave my apartment and move into my officea relatively small space with a desk a couple of chalkboards a couch plus everything I owned which was mostly media equipment About all I could do was work if only to keep from feeling claustrophobic moving things around seemed to make the space bigger Around About came out of a what if scenario What if I were to cut images to every syllable of a spoken text A way to keep me busy A daunting task in the time of Umatic machines and sloppy controllers I did it all manually hitting the edit button for every syllable With each rewind I would listen and anticipate the coming syllable learning as I went along to adjust for delayed reaction