A video is set up in the studio, with a video camera pointing down from overhead. Paper lips are set upon the moving turntable, one by one. A computer program was written to respond to the way these lips fell onto the record player. Every time one of the lips passed an invisible "zone" on the turntable, the computer would trigger a short sample, which was a fragment of a voice. The more lips that were on the turntable, the more samples would be triggered.

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