Radio Pictures
Kaleidoscope
An Ambient Audio-visual Performance

Mark Murray: Music, Electronics, Poetry
Kent Duren: Video Images, Editing, Charecter Generator, Guitar, Music

Radio Pictures

Radio Pictures is the name of a studio project that mates surrealistic video images with music and occasional poetry. The first video "album" from Radio Pictures, "Kaleidoscope", is slated for release March 28th.

Radio Pictures started as a school experiment for an electronic music class at South Plains College. Video artist Kent Duren put together a short video tape of some of his work to use as a demonstration tape for interlocking music computer systems to video tape machines. The instructor of the class, Mark Murray, became very interested in the video images being created by Duren. Murray asked Duren if he would be interested in letting Murray take some of the video tape to Lubbock for more intensive work at his studio. After creating an electronic music sequence for the video, Murray asked Duren if he would like to play guitar on the piece. The first product of the collaboration is a piece that appears on the Kaleidoscope album called "Raindance". This set the two composers on a journey into multimedia performance art.

Kaleidoscope is the product of many hours of visual and musical experimentation. The flavor of the fourteen pieces that make up the album varies widely from ambient new age-ish performances on "Pixel Storm" to the absurd, comedic "Grid Balls". The variety of images and music that make up the album should appeal to anyone interested in the genre.

At the time of this writing no consignment deals have been solidified with any of the local video outlets, but the tapes will be available directly from Macrocosmedia for $14.95 plus $2.00 postage per tape. Send check or money order payable to Mark Murray c/o Macrocosmedia, 1214 Avenue Q, Lubbock, TX 79401. Please allow 4 weeks for delivery.

1. ?
2. Ant Farm
3. Raindance
4. Devil Went Down to Texas
5. Pixel Storm
6. Prism
7. Grid Balls
8. Journey to Planet K
9. Pistels
10. Rush
11. Rolling Through the Tube
12. Plasnado
13. Antfarm II
14. Rorschach

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