Lullabye (for postmodern children), 1992. 5:30 min, color, stereo. Available on VHS video as part of the collection Opus Alchymicum. Soundtrack available on the compact disc The Alchemist's Dream. Streaming Quicktime movie Medium quality -- 512 Kbit/sec Good quality -- 1 Mbit/sec Streaming MP3 audio Play at broadband speed -- 64k stereo Play at modem speed -- 32k This piece simultaneously criticizes and celebrates media hypnosis via hell-driven industrial music and flickering scratch video of Twilight Zone / Outer Limits / Star Trek episodes. Probably one of the more "entertaining" of my video pieces. See if you can name all of the episodes. On this page alone you can see appearances by Billy Mumy, the Galaxy Being, and of course the ubiquitous Shatner. My only mistake was not including any of The Prisoner. Darn. There's an interesting story behind the soundtrack. I created the music with a Buchla 200 series modular analog sythesizer. It's an extremely rare, valuable, and complex set of instruments which I had the good fortune to use while at CalArts. In a characteristically short-sighted move, the school sold off its last remaining Buchla system shortly after this piece was recorded. I estimate the current value of that system at around $20,000... they probably got about a tenth of that. They "replaced" it with a crappy Roland sampler, because no one except me was using the Buchla.

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