In this talk, Seattle and Alaska-based Mark Zirpel will present a
recent work titled "bird translator".  It is an investigatin into the
relationship between language and music, the process of transduction,
and the attempt to move the surface of water with the song of a bird,
all orgranized via the structure of a neural pathway.  Although Zirpel
comes from a printmaking background, over the years he has turned his
focus to producing mixed-media kinetic sculptures.  Previous works
focused  the notion of time,  lunar and tidal cycles, as well as
corollary timekeeping systems within the human body.