G.S. Oh, the one from the picture [referring to press kit] it's called brain girl? T.S. Well the piece is called “I Don't want to Set the World on Fire” because that's the song you have to sing to her in order to get her to react and do her thing. | had a lot of input from Man-Kit Kwan from the Vancouver robotics club, and assistance from Marc Alfonso with brain girl. The technology that’ s utilized is a Mac midi program that recognizes if you are singing the right song. The original intention of the software was to hook up live musicians and computerized music, so that the computerized music hears where the musicians are and an interview by Gord Schmidt can adjust its timing accordingly. | had Graham Porter who is a music student from S.F.U. to program the midi. G.S. So this was a very collaborative project? T.S. Oh yes, yes yes yes. Another person | have to mention is Rob Symmers, he made the systems for the marienette and these girls [gestures to the hanging puppet like creatures that greeted me at the entrance to Tamara's apartment with “ouches” as | brushed by them]. G.S. | was going to ask, you don't come from an industrial design background? T.S. No, | don’t... G.S. You studied fine arts? T.S. Ya, but [industrial design] has always fascinated me. | started doing kinetic installations when | was about sixteen and then went into painting for quite a while. G.S. Have you seen the robot fighting show on televi- sion? T.S. No, but I've been to the competitions. There is a professor, Norm White, at the Ontario College of Art who teaches animatron- ics and robotic stuff. And | belong to a group in Ontario called “the art and robotics group” who are basically- a bunch of crazy guys, and girls, who make robots and fight them. So Norm White has this party twice a year at his mill and people come and bring their robots. The last party that | went to of his they had this dias, and they where dousing their robots in gaso- line set them alight and then letting them fight. And | was just thinking “your babies! You worked so hard!" G.S. | was going to ask you about the title of the show. T.S. A Child's Garden of Worms. It's a reference to a Robert Louis Stevenson book of poetry for children called A Child's Garden of Verse. | thought it was _ aprés poe because he was very sick as a kid, and a lot of the poetry is in this strange melancholy vein which is a very atypical childhood, and since | feel like this show is not about the things that go on in story books, it’s about the things that go on as you are - growing up that aren't explained by the story books, all the things that just don't seem to add up when your learning the traditional societal norms. G.S. Is there anything else that you wanted to say about the show on April 6th T.S. Basically I’m using some really neat software and hardware to do things that haven't been done much before, and I'm really excited about that. A Child's Garden of Worms opens at Dynamo Gallery April 6th and runs until the 27th. ARTS CLUB THEATRE COMPA! Bill Millerd — Artistic Managing Dire Do Real Friends Tell The T A Sharp Comedy about Men, Taste Yasmina Re translated by Ch ristopher ampto: starring Tom McBeath Morris Panych Daryl Shuttleworth directed by David Storch set & costume design by Ken MacDonald lighting design by Alan Brodie sound design by. John McCulloch Ticketmaster 280: Corporate & G.S. Oh, the one from the picture [referring to press kit] it's called brain girl? TS. Well the piece is called “I Don't want to Set the World on Fire” because that’s the song you have to sing to her in order to get her to react and do her thing. I had a lot of input from Man-Kit Kwan from the Vancouver robotics club, and assistance from Marc Alfonso with brain girl. The technology that’ s utilized is a Mac midi program that recognizes if you are singing the right song. The original intention of the software was to hook up live musicians and computerized music, so that the computerized music hears where the musicians are and an interview by Gord Schmidt can adjust its timing accordingly. | had Graham Porter who is a music student from S.F.U. to program the midi. G:S. So this was a very collaborative project? TSS. Oh yes, yes yes yes. Another person | have to mention is Rob Symmers, he made the systems for the marienette and these girls [gestures to the hanging puppet like creatures that greeted me at the entrance to Tamara's apartment with “ouches” as | brushed by them]. GS. | was going to ask, you don't come from an industrial design background? TS. No, | don't... G.S. You studied fine arts? TS. Ya, but [industrial design] has always fascinated me. | started doing kinetic installations when | was about sixteen and then went into painting for quite a while. G.S. Have you seen the robot fighting show on televi- sion? T.S. No, but I've been to the competitions. There is a professor, Norm White, at the Ontario College of Art who teaches animatron- ics and robotic stuff. And! belongtoa ° group in Ontario called “the art and robotics group” who are basically- a bunch of crazy guys, and girls, who make robots and fight them. So Norm White has this party twice a year at his mill and people come and bring their robots. The last party that | went to of his they had this dias, and they where dousing their robots in gaso- line set them alight and then letting them fight. And | was just thinking “your babies! You worked so hard!” G.S. | was going to ask you about the title of the show. TS. A Child's Garden of Worms. It's a reference to a Robert Louis Stevenson book of poetry for children called A Child's Garden of Verse. | thought it was aprés poe because he was very sick as a kid, and a lot of the poetry is in this strange melancholy vein which is a very atypical childhood, and since | feel like this show is not about the things that go on in story books, it’s about the things that go on as you are growing up that aren't explained by the story books, all the things that just don’t seem to add up when your learning the traditional societal norms. G:S. Is there anything else that you wanted to say about the show on April 6th? TS. Basically I'm using some really neat software and hardware to do things that haven't been done much before, and |'m really excited about that. A Child's Garden of Worms opens at Dynamo Gallery April 6th and runs until the 27th, Ants CLUB THEATRE COMPANY Do Real Friends Tell The Truth? 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