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DBTS

in which yours truly plays the adventure-type computer game "Die by the Sword" with a force-feedback equipped joystick which at the same time controls a computer-based sound effect algorithm while also providing the very sounds to be processed through an array of piezo microphones attached to its inards - as attention wanders between the two "tasks" the audience at times witnesses a rather unoriented virtual crusader being thrown around by orks and giant ants as the performer concentrates on musical actions, then has to endure erratic as well as boring passsages of music while the player focuses on the game play

premiere nov 2001 at mex, Dortmund, Germany

an excerpt

screenshots (interplay)