Cheapo Video

The Other Side Of Heaven, by the New Wave group Kissing the Pink, is now available on a cassette tape with a difference. It is one of the first examples of a new concept in home entertainment which I'd call CALIST, or Computer-Assisted Listening.

Appropriately enough, the other side of the tape contains a computer visual program, which you run while listening to the music. Or you can record both sides on a VTR and so create your own cheapo video.

Garish abstract forms move rather jerkily around the screen, and if you manage to synchronise program and music - no mean feat - faces open and close their mouths like goldfish, in time with the lyrics.

All I can add is that if we're going to be invaded by CALIST packages, then I hope both the technical and creative quality of the graphics improves.

Gabriel Jacobs