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Liquid light shows (or psychedelic light shows) [not verified in body] are a form of light art that surfaced in the early 1960s as accompaniment to electronic music and avant-garde theatre performances. They were later adapted for performances of rock or psychedelic music.
The Kinetic Playground was a short-lived nightclub located in the Uptown neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. The club was opened on April 3, 1968, as the Electric Theater [ 1 ] by Aaron Russo and was located at 4812 N. Clark Street (NW corner of Clark and Lawrence).
Concert posters, album covers, liquid light shows, liquid light art, murals, comic books, underground newspapers and more reflected not only the kaleidoscopically swirling colour patterns typical of psychedelic hallucinations, but also revolutionary political, social and spiritual sentiments inspired by insights derived from these psychedelic ...
In the 1960s he started designing rock concerts and psychedelic light shows. Producer and promoter John Pinder arranged his first lightshow / concert in Melbourne, "The Electric Blues Thing" featuring Doug Parkinson in Focus, and The Semblence of Dignity, with Fogg providing the "psychedelic lightshow", at the Carlton Cinema in 1968. [3] [4]
From 1964, the Merry Pranksters, a loose group that developed around novelist Ken Kesey, sponsored the Acid Tests, a series of events based around the taking of LSD (supplied by Stanley), accompanied by light shows, film projection and discordant, improvised music known as the psychedelic symphony.
Between the festive window displays (we’re looking at you, Macy’s on State Street), the hustle and bustle of holiday shoppers and the snow falling softly down, Christmas is a special time of ...
By 1953 he had created a “light machine” that combined keyboard, glass, speakers, and homemade projectors and colored lights that responded to changes in pitch, register, and volume, which was an early precursor of the psychedelic light shows of the '60s [26] —and years before the light shows of Haight-Ashbury. [32]
In the 50 years Anthony Harris has admired astronomy, he said he’s seen the northern lights in Chicago only about five times. It’s unlikely he’ll add to his total this week. “I’d say ...