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Electric Birds, Common Space release Web-only 'piece'
17 July 2001

Mike Martinez, aka Electric Birds and head of Seattle’s Deluxe Records, has released a difficult to categorize music and images piece in collaboration with Jon Santos of graphics design firm Common Space. It is a free, Web-only music mixer/ interactive album/ interative art exhibit that allows for an infinite number of presentations, programmed by Martinez and Santos but controlled by you as you listen and watch.
    The virtual device offers three tracks, each of which can play any of 12 sound loops and display any of 12 images. You can change the loop/image combination for any track at any time.
    The very nicely designed Macromedia Flash interface gives you real time control of the volume and left-right positioning of each track; or you can give the device varying degrees of autonomy by which which it will play itself. The overall experience, if you can get into it, can be quite breathtaking.
    Martinez and Santos call the piece “parts:places—landscape modular 1.” For more information, be sure to read the instructions available on the Web site. | parts:places-landscape modular 1 | | Deluxe Records | | Electric Birds | | Common Space | | top of page |

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