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  • adjective designating sound transmission from two sources through two channels

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Examples

  • Cuts: A Traditional Sculpture consists of a two-channel video installation, a pin-up, a photographic series and a zine.

    A Traditional Sculpture (VIDEO) 2011

  • This two-channel video meditation, "Binary Selves" 2007, ricochets between her alcoholic father's frozen Alaskan hometown and the world beyond.

    Artifacts to Artworks Lee Rosenbaum 2012

  • I was faced with a choice: Install my extant 5.1 system, broken floorboards and all, or find a nice two-channel stereo that respects my vintage vinyl and keeps my house intact.

    Is 2 Greater Than 5.1? Joshua Fruhlinger 2011

  • I collapsed 23 weeks of training into 23 seconds, creating a time-lapse video part of the two-channel installation Fast Twitch Slow Twitch.

    A Traditional Sculpture (VIDEO) 2011

  • And speaking of zombies, Edinburgh's Ocean Terminal will most likely be resembling a scene from 28 Days Later as tonight's Headphone Disco's TwoDeejaySuperShow gets underway, arming punters with their own set of wireless, two-channel headphones, switching off the soundsystem and having two DJs spin two completely different sets, side by side.

    Clubs picks of the week 2011

  • As far back as the 1880s there were demonstrations of rudimentary two-channel, stereo sound.

    Ellen Sterling: The Sound of Music Just Keeps Getting Better So That Today It Is Astounding Ellen Sterling 2011

  • This two-channel projection is based on the 1923 ballet, scored by the composer Igor Stravinsky for Sergei Diaghilev's Les Ballets Russes, one of the 20th century's most significant modernist experiments of gesamtkunstwerk.

    Susan Segal: Arturo Herrera: Les Noces (The Wedding) Susan Segal 2011

  • Courtesy the artist and galleries Micheline Szwajcer, Yvon Lambert, and Hauser & Wirth A frame from 'Riverside' 2009, a two-channel video installation.

    Still Images Turn Into a Moving Experience J. S. Marcus 2011

  • As far back as the 1880s there were demonstrations of rudimentary two-channel, stereo sound.

    Ellen Sterling: The Sound of Music Just Keeps Getting Better So That Today It Is Astounding Ellen Sterling 2011

  • While each speaker requires power and thus a cord, not having to run a wire between the pair makes it easier to put some distance in between—a crucial step if you want the open sound that simple two-channel stereo delivers so well.

    2011: A Wireless Hi-Fi Odyssey Michael Hsu 2011

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