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Article: Festival illuminates fusion of music and technology; The University of Minnesota's Spark festival lights the way for new directions in electronic music.(ENTERTAINMENT)
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- February 19, 2006
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Byline: Michael Anthony; Staff Writer
People on the University of Minnesota campus are going to see - and hear - strange things this week: electronic crickets, for instance, on the walls of the Weisman Art Museum. Elsewhere, at various places, a young man will set up a video projector and computer and start dancing, playing music and projecting his image onto a computer screen.
These divergences from the norm are courtesy of the fourth annual Spark, a six-day festival of electronic music and art presented by the School of Music. It opens Tuesday night with a performance at the Whole at Coffman Union by the rock-jazz quartet Electropolis playing its ...