Elegant Chaos

The Insights CD was developed as part of the Renaissance Initiative sponsored by Apple Computer (UK) and Apple Computer Europe. The initiative was a collaboration between higher education institutions in the United Kingdom to develop multimedia learning materials in a range of disciplines and to explore related issues.

This was also the first CD produced by ULTRALAB, and it included a number of Hypercard stacks which I created and/or worked on.

The best of these was probably Le Carnival Des Animaux, which Tom Smith and I created from an original idea by Stephen Heppell (and with help and advice from everyone else at the lab).

Here's some blurb from the ULTRALAB website:

Le Carnaval des Animaux is a program for interpreting the music by Saint-Saens of the same name. By controlling the CD-Audio on the Insights compact disc, the program permits you to try out different parts of the music (snippets), annotate your snippets with audio announcements and paint your interpretation to the music. Also in this folder is "Carnaval Music introduction" which explains how the music was recorded and placed on this compact disc. Carnaval has translations for English, Spanish, Catalan and Bulgarian. It is designed to support a hundred more languages and you could be the translator! "Notes for translators" has guidance if you decided to take up this challenge.

Coming soon: how did it get made, what else was on it, and why did it take us so long?

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