Martin Arnold in Person Live Performance by The Dactyls of Frygia (Phrygia) Adventurous use of sound denies its subservience to the image, engaging instead in a cross-talk that can deliver abrupt aural shifts, shocking tempos, contrapuntal expansions, any number of sonorous segues and sideshows. In Edward Rankus's Nerve Language (1995, 10 mins, 3/4" video), minimalist compositions are animated by unexpected sonic cues. The music serves as a synaptic trigger releasing the latent pictorial meaning. Martin Arnold's remarkable Piece Touchée (1989, 15 mins, 16mm) appropriates an 18-second movie sequence of a couple approaching for an embrace and radically alters its spatial and temporal progression. A vaguely modulated drone transforms the interaction of the unkissed couple into numbing domestic paralysis. Fabricated language, kinetic text, processed voices and misleading images construct the multi-sensorial jumble in Peter Rose's ironic Babel (1987, 17 mins, 3/4" video). The tape's meaning accumulates around a quasi-sound poetry that functions as linguistic foil. Bruce Conner's most recent work, Television Assassination (1963-95, 14 mins, 16mm) is composed of re-scanned TV footage of the events surrounding Lee Harvey Oswald's murder. Composer Patrick Gleeson took advantage of a "beat," really a vertical roll, inherent to the film and intensified the sense of visual vertigo. The centerpiece of the program is a live performance by The Dactyls of Frygia. They will accompany Steven Dye's animated short King Midas (1995, 8 mins, 16mm), using a variety of homemade instruments. A stop-action parable, Dye's fanciful work thrives on the serendipity of freshly invented sounds.-Steve Seid