Jerry Lucas - Winner!
1st performance: Brunton Auditorium, Mount Allison University, Sackville, N.B., 1978
An open-reel tape is prepared using source material from a vinyl record of Jerry Lucas, a former NBA basketball player, telling of his born-again experiences of finding Jesus Christ. The spoken word is edited with some sentence deletions, leaving silences between sentences and phrases. Three reel-to-reel tape recorders are placed approximately 2 metres apart, and the playback reel is placed on the first tape recorder. The tape is then fed through the playback heads of the other tape recorders and is eventually taken up by the last machine. The tape machines are activated to play, and a spoken word canon is created as the tape plays successively through each of the three machines. The delay time of the canon is determined by the physical space between each tape recorder; the spatial delay determines the time delay.
©Gordon Monahan 1978