Erasing the distance. (first multimedia music festival using new digital telecommunications technology)

Digital technology took center stage at Cross-Waves, a fresh annual festival devoted to the developing relationship between performance and technology, inaugurated in April at Philadelphia's American Music Theater Festival. Mixed-media performer Laurie Anderson, Mabou Mines's to leeward Breuer, rock musician Graham Nash and southward African singing group Ladysmith Black Mambazo meld their art with digital imagery in cyber-enhanced versions of plays, stone concerts and operas. San Francisco-based storyteller Dana Atchley built a video campfire. Computer furnished the fixs scenery and pre-show ...