INSIDE DOUGLAS COLLEGE / AUGUST 7, 1990

 

 

 

it back and fasten your seat-

belts. At Open House ’90, a

Douglas College Computer
Technician hopes to take you ona
musical and visual journey into the
latest realm of computer technol-
ogy.
Darryl Karleen, a computer
technician in the Systems and Com-
puting department, is fine tuning a
proposal to combine computer
animated graphics and computer
generated music to produce a "visual and musical ex-
perience" for visitors at Open House ’90.

“A music board allows you to use the computer
as a 10 channel synthesizer,” says Karleen. "We can
program in songs and then play them back."

Adding a graphics element to the musical com-
ponent will further enhance the quality of the exhibit.

"The graphics program is called "Animator"," Kar-
leen explains. "It will scan or digitize images onto the
screen in sync with the music."

With the final plans still in the works, Karleen
says that the size and magnitude of the display will
depend on how much help he can muster up from the
rest of the College.

"I’m hoping to work with Instructional Media Ser-
vices, the Music Department and the Public Informa-
tion Office," he says.

 

   

 

"What Id like to do is have a
large presentation area — maybe a
classroom blackened out," says Kar-
leen. "We'll beam the computer
against the wall, and then let in
groups of 20 people at a time to
watch and listen."

Karleen says the exhibit will
not only entertain visitors by com-
puter wizardry, but will also
visually showcase the whole Col-
lege.

"If we get fancy,” says Karleen, "we can take
videos of the College and then project two images
simultaneously with the music.”

"We're not going to compete with the type of
presentation the Planetarium puts on, but it will be a
smaller scale version of that type of show."

Karleen says he is willing to put in as much effort
as necessary to make the System’s exhibit extra spe-
cial.

“This is something I’ve always been interested |
in," he says. "The more I learn about it the better."

When asked what visitors to Open House ’90 will
think of the combination of music, graphics and high
technology, Karleen has only one thing to say.

"It’s going to blow their minds."

Karleen’s proposal will be discussed at the next
Open House Committee meeting in mid-August. @

 

 

 

Name: Mark Coumont

Position at Douglas College:
Micro-Computer Technician

Scope of duties: Maintain and repair

ricro-computers and operate
mini-computers.

Working at a place where most
people are here by choice, not
necessity.

Traffic and parking.

What else? - computers
Favourite restaurant: Red Robin
Likes: Good Sci-Fl movies
Dislikes: Bad Sci-Fi movies
Hobbies: Computers, golf, cooking
What ing i

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