HW: Litmus Gig

Drill drill.0010.1011.1100 at GMAIL.COM
Sun Jul 3 16:51:57 EDT 2005


Not to mention the right stuff to project, that's obviously a critical
variable in the situation! I don't know too much about exactly how
people are running the projector and what software but anyone can
figure out a few ways to have a skilled operator synchronizing loop
sequences with the music, doing it live of course. How was lights at
the hawkwind reunion in England a few years back ? I wish I knew about
the kind of things liquid Len did. Someone told me the Butthole
Surfers had a brilliant light show (???).

On 7/3/05, Drill <drill.0010.1011.1100 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/1/05, Carl Edlund Anderson <cea at carlaz.com> wrote:
> > That was excellent :)  A few quick notes before I embark on the
> > highly rock'n'roll activity of going on holiday with my mother-in-
> > law .... ;)
> >
> > A lineup of guitar/bass/drums/ and 2 electronic noise makers --
>
> I've got some vacuum tube oscillators, once with some added circuitry
> I made I tried to contribute to a performance of Sonic attack at a
> show where my friends band opened for Wesley Willis! They would NOT
> have it though, bourgeouis conservative spacerock posers that lot. The
> band was Automind, named after a cartoon character I use in animation,
> named of course after the Automind that sets landing coordinates on th
> eplanet Medusa. Sigh. It's prety hard not to have a neat light show
> with a few video projectors, digital projectors almost ubiquitous
> nowadays along with $15 strobe lights but you can do so much more than
> that, this equipment has some obvious limitations say in luminosity
> for one thing. And a $2000 projector is more likely in the hands of
> someone doing business presentations or someone with money to throw
> around and wants a home theater to impress their friends. (ask them if
> they'll let you use it for a show down the street--- NO IT'S MINE!). I
> shoplifted my projector and early on lent it to subhuman intelligences
> who of course wouldn't drive it back over to my place and in a year
> they burned out the lamp playing video games. Never got to use it
> myself really, I needed it because it had better synchronization than
> a monitor for the animation I was doing (that I AM doing when I have
> the video peripheral to correctly see what I draw).
>
> Any light show needs people to execute it, and I find that righteously
> commendable no matter what. If I can be motivated (I need a girlfriend
> with the free time to push me around! This is key I think and I'm
> working on it.) I can do safe indoor pyrotechnical awesomeness using
> materials emptied from fireworks and my neon sign transformer, and
> various lenses and reflectors. And other things, but that's just an
> example of something cool looking that diverges from your "average"
> amalgamted video projector setup. The solar fire lightshow was KILLER
> at Strange Daze 99 or 2000 in Ohio, which ever one I was at. The one
> where the punk rockers were dancing to Nik's solo rendition of "in the
> mood". Rock on. If I win the 7Up first ordinary human in space
> contest... you don't even want to know what I'm gonna do. I'll have to
> find my lost human counterpart to win though. Then rendezvous with the
> others once in orbit.
>
> > that's the spacerock action there :)  Spacey noodly intros that set a
> > contemplative mood and then explode into frenzies of consciousness-
> > obliterating, rocket-powered blanga.
> >
> > Good :)
> >
> > Top notch lights!  All there were were some random projections onto a
> > screen at the back and a combo of one strobe/one multi-beam-coloured-
> > flower-thing stationed on the stage in front of and below the bass
> > drum.  Oh, and a smoke machine.  So, basically, a hell of a lot of
> > the time there was just this wash of white or coloured light with
> > random beams shooting past your ears while a wall of blanga swept
> > over you.
> >
> > Good :)
> >
> > Excellent bass playing, despite it not being a Rick ;)  Sometimes I
> > thought there could be more wah on the guitar, but sometimes I
> > thought it was perfect -- which means that in reality the amount of
> > wah deployed must have been pretty excessive :)  Drumming was fast
> > and tight and the dual-swoosh dudes on the wings filled in all the
> > spaces they should.  Only hiccup sound wise really was the vocals
> > were pretty indistinct (stage announcements could have been in
> > Venusian for all I knew), but if the worst thing one can find to say
> > is that the live vocals in a small venue were kinda incomprensible --
> > well, what do you expect?
> >
> > They took a bit to warm up, I thought, but once they were going, they
> > were really going.  There were definitely a few moments where you
> > thought, "Damn, that's cool!  I wish I was doing that!", and what
> > more's to ask?
> >
> > Ah, I would also note that their CD sounds better on my stereo than
> > on Jon's :)  But then I think most CDs sound better on my stereo than
> > they do anywhere else, mostly by virtue of location :)
> >
> > Hope to see Litmus again!
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Carl
> >
> > --
> > Carl Edlund Anderson
> > http://www.carlaz.com/
> >
>
>
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