Laser show combines light, music
By Sean Meyers
Of the Emerald
How would you like to
spend this Saturday night soak
ing up orgasms of light and
color, absorbing unworldly
electronic inflections and chas
ing psychic snakes up and
down the walls?
You’re suspicious. You
worry about whether such an
experience is legal, and how
many millions of brain cells it
would consume
But the trip is free, in terms
of brain cells, when the space
ship •Krypton" leaves the Wil
lamette Science and Tech
nology Center promptly at 8
p m. on Eugene's first laser art
show.
And not too expensive in
earth currency, either. Just a
dollar admission for students
and seniors. The WISTEC facili
ty is located just southwest of
Autzen Stadium.
A pair of Eugene "Laser
Artists,” Lee Harris and Michael
Charles, have put together an
original electronic soundtrack
and video show to be presented
as "Krypton Dynamics Volume
I." Harris says this will be the
first laser show ever to incor
porate an entirely original mu
sical score
"Krypton" is not a refer
ence to the stuff that makes
super-heroes weak in the
knees The chemical is a key
component in making photons
weak in their orbits, producing a
laser beam that can be man
ipulated into infinite forms and
colors
"It's amazing how many
people think Krypton is just a
fabrication of Superman,' says
Harris, 29, who first became in
terested in lasers when he was
six years old. When he was a
junior in high school, Harris
built his first laser. "It's been a
love affair ever since."
Harris and Charles own
Krypton Media Effects Lab, a
consulting and advertising
production company in Eugene
In addition to giving laser shows
indoors, they have ambitious
projects for the future. Two
possibilities are bouncing laser
beams off the moon, and run
ning shows on the sides of
buildings in downtown Eugene
from a laser stationed on top of
Skinners Butte
Harris wants to get permis
sion to magnify laser beams
through a telescope towards
reflectors left on the moon by
astronauts There have been
scientific experiments in
bouncing laser light off the
reflectors, but it has never been
done with artistic intent Harris
says it is a "real possibility" that
he will go ahead with the
project
In conjunction with the
shows Saturday night. WISTEC
will hold a "Laser Day" where a
variety of laser applications will
be demonstrated and dis
cussed
Included will be presenta
tions of laser scanners similar to
those used in retail stores and a
laser beam that measures dis
tance Harris and Charles will
also be on hand to discuss
techniques used in putting
together a laser art show
Also slated is a presenta
tion by Dr Lawrence O'Dell on
the medical applications of laser
beams in the treatment of
glaucoma and retinal disease
Displays on laser art, laser tele
phones and holography will be
available for inspection
“Laser has a potential at
some point in the future of being
able to generate almost any kind
of visual picture you can
imagine," says Harris "It can be
just as versatile as audio tape
Harris says Saturday's laser
show will be not to emphasize
"the super dynamic quality of
light by overloading the senses
with light and color " Instead, it
will be "much more subdued,
what we feel to be a more
aesthetic presentation," Harris
says
Charles and Harris are in a
symbiotic relationship with
WISTEC — in exchange for the
use of WISTEC's costly
medium-power laser, the pair
are putting together a "laser
projector" that can be pro
grammed to alter the laser beam
into artistic configurations
The projector has 100 op
tical components, where a
laboratory microscope might
have 10 or less. When perfected
the 1,000-plus piece projecter
will be comparable in many re
spects to a $150,000 off-the
shelf model, Harris says
As of Wednesday
afternoon, the portions of the
projector were still strewn over
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a laboratory floor in the WISTEC
building. Despite the seeming
disorder and constant ques
tions from the curious. Harris is
confident the show will run
smoothly
"This laser beam isn't
going to cut me in half?" asks a
man seeking passage through
Harris' make-shift workshop at
WISTEC
"No." replies Harris, wait
ing until the man has already
walked through the waist-high
beam before adding a touch of
laser-artist humor But it will
make you sterile "
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