VOICE GARDEN: LABYRINTH OF LOVE , LABYRINTH OF DESIRE
Interactive multimedia CD-ROM
Story & Images by
BEVERLY REISER & HANS REISER
All music performed and composed by
BILL FLEMING
A Project of Life on a Slice
Labyrinths murmur and archaic spirits beckon in this tale of Love and Desire
told in the style of Magical Realism.
Uncover the echoes of almost forgotten Goddesses in the Labyrinth of Love
or journey with your minotaur past hungering walls, through the Eye of Desire
and into the caverns of your heart.
A poetic gift for someone who loves, Voice Garden contains rich 64k(16
bit) color images and animations, a full musical score, mystical voices,
puzzles, and a Zen monk raking.
Beverly Reiser has been president of Ylem / Artists Using Science &
Technology , a not -for-profit arts organization for 11 years. for info
: beverly@idiom.com
or write:
Ylem, PO Box 749, Orinda, CA, USA
our web site art gallery URL is http://www.ylem.org/ylem/
or write: Life On A Slice, 6979 Exeter Dr., Oakland, CA, 94611, USA
our URL is http://www.ylem.org/ylem/artists/loas.html
As a child, I was a pathologically shy but lyrical Romantic. Now I'm
an old lyrical romantic squatting in the Techno-Artso Frog Pond. The Frog
Pond of late has grown rank with various strains of hopelessness and cynicism.
But what do I care? I can float here on my emerald pad and remember the
dreams of a pathological child.
For the last 30 years, I've worked through a range of light emitting media
from stained glass to large-scale kinetic neon and glass walls with computer
controlled light sequencing. When personal computers came along it seemed
a natural transition. What surprised me ( and delighted ) me the most however
was that as Voice Garden emerged, I began to reach back into lessons I had
learned in Chinese brush painting with my teacher Shiou Jang Hsieh. While
these pictures were generated in the computer, not on paper, ones heart
has a sureness about what sensibilities to store and replant some later
spring.
Which brings us to Voice Garden.
Voice Garden, Labyrinth of Love, Labyrinth of Desire is a metaphor. You
can consider it your own personal epic theater. Will you make the heroic
choice at the " Boundary between Self and
Desire "? Don't forget , amidst all the "strum and drang",
to read the ancient love poems from ancient Indian, Egyptian, Chinese, Japanese
and Sufi traditions in the Labyrinth of Love. These are topped off with
a contemporary poem ( perhaps of a Celtic sensibility) by my son Hans Reiser
.
Beverly Reiser
A pretty picture is one thing, but how much more powerful it is with
a poem of love, how much more alive an animation is when with sounds of
hips swishing, how much better that yin be filled by yang.... I've always
been a cynical idealist at heart, and in working with a lyrical romantic
with decades of drawing experience, and with a talented musician like Bill,
I think we have done so much more than we could have done separately.
It has been frustrating and deeply rewarding to work with my mother in bringing
poem, picture, and Bill's guitar into a new art form. At the time I write,
there is no art CD-ROM market, and there is no CD-ROM one would think to
give a beautiful woman on Valentine's day, and yet I know that in but a
few years it will all change. A new medium is born, listen to it scream
not enough conventional memory. Smack it please, and then give it a bottle.
Hans Reiser
Poetry and programming mostly by Hans Reiser