This experiment allowed the band members to interact with the big video screens as they stood on stage. In the first project, Welcome to ZooTV, Bono selected a region, then the city, and then one of four versions of himself to welcome the audience to the show. The second project was BeatBox, and was run by Edge. He picked a song, and then played around with the beat by changing tempo and selecting between 3 different sound sets (including a zoo version with animal sounds for the kick drum, snare etc.). 

Apparently the band only used the projects on a couple gigs, as it turned out to be a bit too time-consuming for them to run it. If anyone has any stage pictures of them using it, please let me know. I think one of the shows where they used it was in Texas.

These projects were created using CDi technology developed by Philips and Sony. This was the first commercially released set top box that used CD media. My MusicWorks group produced several music titles for this medium. These were called CDi-Ready discs, and they played on normal CD players, but were the first music CDs ever to include multimedia content as well. Titles included James Brown, Mozart, Louis Armstrong, and Luciano Pavarotti.

Later, when I started Commotion, we went pretty far down the road on a proposal to create an interactive project with U2. It would have been developed on either CDi or the 3DO platform.

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