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...which takes the present CD a step further by adding visuals. Dylan's newly released Highway 61 Interactive serves as an elaborate audiovisual historiography. Besides 10 Dylan songs and four videos, it features an electronic scrapbook that includes the singer's high school photos. CD-ROMs like Gabriel's Xplora and Rundgren's No World Order invite viewers/listeners to reassemble images and change tempo and mood, customizing tracks to their own tastes. One of Gabriel's upcoming projects, Eve, will allow users to remix sampled sounds while creating their own screen environment from images provided by four collaborating visual artists...
Earlier this year at the Digital World trade show in California, Peter Gabriel demonstrated "XPlora j: Peter Gabriel's Secret World," his latest multimedia release. Other artists who have released interactive kits include David Bowie and Todd Rundgren...
...Peter Gabriel. The Genesis grad, whose music videos (Sledgehammer, Steam) have been pixilated eye-poppers, offers options galore in his CD-ROM Xplora 1: Peter Gabriel's Secret World. First you put the singer's face together, which means choosing from a screenful of different mouths, noses, eyes and ears. "You'll know when you've got it," says Mr. Computer Potato Head while you give him a facial. This achieved, you must decide what to do next: Watch one of his music videos? Thumb through his old baby pictures? Choose various cuts by musicians from around the world...
...First Church of Interactive Rock -- let's pause and ask what it means for the music market. Even there the predictions are rosy. "We may be a little bit ahead of the curve," says Brian Fargo, the president of Interplay Productions, whose MacPlay software division distributes Gabriel's Xplora 1. "But I think this will be a brand-new market segment that didn't even exist before. It's no longer a question of whether this format will take off but when. I'd say within a year or so it will be a CD-ROM world...