MUSIC

Aurora Picture Show in collaboration with the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts and the Museum of Fine Arts Houston presents Media Archeology Festival: Liquid Light to the Laptop, the Evolution of Live Visuals.  Curated by Bree Edwards.

Media Archeology is Aurora Picture Show's annual multimedia festival that features artists who incorporate audio/visual technology with live performance. Each year, Media Archeology focuses on a different sub-genre of technology-based performance, and this year the theme is Liquid Light to the Laptop, the Evolution of Live Visuals. The Festival will pay tribute to the multi-media spectacle of the psychedelic light show, as an art form that revolutionized rock concerts, influenced corporate events and advertising and paved the way for the VJs of today.

Friday, April 17, 8PM:   The Joshua Light Show featuring Joshua White and musical artist Silver Apples.

Media Archeology’s headline event is a spectacular performance collaboration between the Joshua Light Show, featuring Joshua White, and musical artist Silver Apples. Joshua White and his shows were an integral part of the 1960s entertainment culture; his show has been updated for the digital age, through this modern day collaboration with New York video artists Bec Stupak, Brock Monroe, and Seth Kirby, among others.  Electronic music pioneers Silver Apples, currently the solo project of Simeon Coxe, will perform a re-creation on the Mune Toon concert in 1969.

ABOUT JOSHUA WHITE An early pioneer of “liquid light” shows, multimedia artist Joshua White is best known for his artistry of the 1960s at the famous New York venue Fillmore East, where he created a psychedelic visual environment using light, liquid and colored projections for Jefferson Airplane, the Grateful Dead and Jimi Hendrix, among others.

 ABOUT SILVER APPLES Formed in 1967, Silver Apples' mission was to see if it was possible to make music with feeling, using only oscillators and drums with vocals. They were one of the first groups to employ electronic music techniques extensively within a rock idiom, and their minimalist style, with its pulsing and driving beat, anticipated not only the experimental electronic music and krautrock of the 1970s, but underground dance music and indie rock of the 1990s as well.

This is a spectacle you will not want to miss.

Special thanks to Treebeards Restaurant, Art Lies and Modern B&B.