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12.00 hrs
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TWELVE BELLS CHIME - GO!
The clock tower, City Hall.
The artist measures. Measurements taken, relayed
by radio mike to a P/A with a line in to a Powerbook
running a Voice Recognition Programme - verbal
to text conversion displays text. To any interested
audience
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12.15 hrs
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QUARTER IS CHIMED
More measuring, more text. Somewhat garbled
text, due to the rude invisible technologies,
and the wind, weather, accent and so on, and
In the changes of pattern of my own voice over
the past year since I first taught it my accent
and usage. As close to the intrisic moral majority
American, it was given as technology could burgerize.
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12.30 hrs
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CLOCK TURNED OFF
"Geoff, donut time on the half hour ,
two donuts past the hour"
Jam donuts on the half hour, receipt - more
data for broadcast. He takes donuts to the artist
in the tower. Documents with Coolpix.
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12.45 hrs
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12.15
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13.00 hrs
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"Cuckoo."
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13.15 hrs
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Quarter past the cuckoo
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13.30 hrs
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Half past donut
Artist decends, still measuring to Power book
in the park, with P.A . Unplugs it, retreats
again to clock towertelling compass directions
into the P/A VIA RADIO MIKE. FOLLOWED BY MOBILE
VIDEOCAM - KIM PETIERS. The camera follows artist
and Powerbook back up ladders, and the clock
workings and the bells. He resumes broadcasting
from the balcony, by reading the transcribed
text of his measuring for the previous ninety
minutes. The donut time and data, chewed but
flowing into an unpredictable 'DataFlower"
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The hum of the highway.
Camcorder operator, tapes start of reading,
retires and climbs down recording her journey
down tower, across to Monitor. She rewinds and
plays footage on large monitor through camcorder
video out, into composite or svhs inputs of
monitor.
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13.45 hrs
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QUARTER IS CHIMED
The artist continues to read tangled texts
from Powerbook, into radio mike from tower,
into PA in Park
Until....
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14.00 hrs
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BELLS CHIME TWO OCLOCK
finish
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The artist offers sincere
thanks to:
Grateful acknowledgements must
be made to the Rob Garrett and the Artists at
Work programme, and the staff and students at
the Art School of OtagoTech to Geoff Noller
the Minder, and Anna Brookes. Specially for
their stamina and humour and extraordinary application,
for turning all kinds of a potential nightmare
minefield into a dizzy pleasure of mind boggling
encounters with helpful and generous people.
Thank you for very special enabling powers,
and also to those numerous others.
IslayMcLeod and Graeme Renton
contributed directly to the conceptual structure
of the work, as well as to giving great encouragement,
and importantly trusted enough to allow it to
happen, through it may be added ,their great
pride in the beauty and history of the building
as civic structure, and civil phenomenon. Kim
Pieters helped practically and professionally
enabled the imagery to happen, Mark Haughan
at Digital Print Shop, Dunedin, helped also
by setting his inspiring professional standard.
Adrian Hall,
12/2/2001, Dunedin, N.Z.
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