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clocker
Wiktionary
n. 1 A person who clocks (illegally winds back the milometer of) a motor car 2 (context slang English) A low-level drug dealer who operates on the streets.
Wikipedia
Clocker, for clock, galvanic skin response sensor and digital delay system, is a minimalist electronic music piece by Alvin Lucier conceived in 1978, though Lucier felt there did not exist an appropriate digital delay system till 1988: "With this new equipment, the sounds of the delayed clock now matched those of the original, creating clear copies and with them a more convincing illusion of time expanding and contracting. Later I added a bank of fixed delays which, as they splay out from the voltage controlled delay, create multiple reflections that almost convince the listener that the room is changing size."
What was played through the digital delay system, a Digitech RDS 7.6 with a continuously variable voltage control output, was the sounds of a clock, a Westclox Silver Bell Monogram, ticking, with the delay controlled by a galvanic skin response sensor (GSR). The GSR, by sending a small current through the body, reads minute differences in skin resistance which in turn is influenced by the performers thoughts and emotions: "I had wanted to make a work in which a performer could speed up and slow down time, stopping it, if possible, simply by thinking."
The 1991 release was recorded in a stone room twenty foot square and thirty feet high. Six small loudspeakers where placed about the room aimed at various walls to create acoustic delays. Collins then routed the audio through different combinations of speakers according to a score written by Lucier, apparently for the occasion, in 1991.
Lucier notes a synchronistic event, his reading of If on a winter's night a traveler by Calvino: "What I would like most in the world...is to make clocks run backward...No, with thought, by concentrating until I force time to move back....polydyptic theatre, in which about sixty little mirrors lining the inside of a large box transform a bough into a forest, a lead soldier into an army, a booklet into a library."
Clockers were regular passenger trains between Philadelphia and New York City on the Northeast Corridor; on the Pennsylvania Railroad they left each terminal on the hour until the 1950s and a less-regular schedule continued on Amtrak. The first train run by Amtrak was a Clocker that left Penn Station at 12:05 AM on May 1, 1971. The last Clocker ran on October 28, 2005. To replace them, New Jersey Transit added four express trains between Trenton and New York City at times approximating the Clocker schedule.
Clocker a minimalist electronic music piece by Alvin Lucier conceived in 1978.
Clocker or Clockers may also refer to:
- Clocker (train), a former Amtrak rail service
- Clocker (Transformers), either of two characters in the Transformers universe
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Clockers (novel), a novel by Richard Price
- Clockers (film), a 1995 film Spike Lee based on the Price novel
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Usage examples of "clocker".
Clocker heard Doc ask irritably, while Clocker was passing the gem merchants, who, because they needed natural daylight to do business, were traditionally accorded the tables nearest the windows.
Also that Clocker had married Zelda, the noted 52nd Street stripteuse, who had social aspirations.
Now that Clocker had told the grim story, he felt free to talk, which he did enthusiastically.
Zelda, Clocker was like an addict at the track with every cent on a hunch.
The rest, including Clocker, waited as an aging man in a white lab smock, heavy-rimmed eyeglasses and smooth pink cheeks, looking like a benevolent doctor in a mouthwash ad, stood up and faced the crowd.
Center, where, he told Clocker, members of the audience and staff were required to report before entering, in case of emergency.
Zelda, Clocker rushed to her chair, hauled her upright, kissed her, squeezed her.
Barnes left a lecture for researchers from his planet and joined Clocker with no more than polite curiosity on his paternal face.
He led Clocker to the Administration Building and inside to a large room with paneled walls, a long, solid table and heavy, carved chairs.
Diplomatically, they made only the most delicate references to the revamping job Clocker had done on his tip sheet.
I speak for all of us, Clocker, when I state that we shall do all within our power to aid you.
I came upon the device of having Clocker and Doc Hawkins do a duet, with a chorus effect from the other characters.
The original version ended with Clocker going back in defeat, hopeless.
Naturally, Doc Hawkins knew the background : That Clocker was a race handicapperpublisher, if you could call it that, of a tiny tip sheetfor Doc, in need of drinking money, had often consulted him professionally.
Back in his hotel room, waiting for the next day so he could visit Zelda, Clocker was like an addict at the track with every cent on a hunch.