If he's still in business I have a friend in Seattle that uses all the 
old gear, including those oil-sep projectors that created the lava lamp 
like effects on a screen (or the wall, same thing). He did the antique 
light-shows for raves back in the 90s.
I was the booking agent for The Avalon Ballroom back in 1967 and 
remember the psychedelic light show set-up well. There were a half dozen 
companies in the SF Bay Area - Ben Van Meter's in particular - that were 
outstanding at what they did.
So there are still people out there who are doing authentic light work 
even today.
Malcolm Rockwell

*******

On 1/6/2016 5:07 AM, Tom Fine wrote:
> Hi Dave:
>
> By 1967, there were experiments in that kind of event out west, with 
> the SF Tape Lab and the early Bouchla electronic music thing, which 
> also involved the Grateful Dead and other west coast psychodellic 
> bands. There is pretty good summary of this scene in the book "Analog 
> Days," about the early synthesizer/electronic music scenes. The west 
> coast "happenings" were more about dropping acid and tripping out than 
> necessarily about music, but the multi-media presentation was an 
> important part of the event. Having been a planetarium nerd in my 
> youth, I really love multi-media with surround sound, but prefer to 
> experience it sober. I'm not as impressed with what I've seen of 
> rave-type hyper-colorful laser/LED displays. It's more like a garrish 
> update of the disco floor than something new and different. When I 
> visited the Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, I tried to get as much detail 
> as I could about the technical details of the Happenings, but 
> surprisingly little documentation exists. There are a fair amount of 
> photos in the archives, but I didn't have time to dig in. I would love 
> to re-create a Happening, using the antique multi-media equipment.
>
> -- Tom Fine
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Lewis" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2016 9:53 AM
> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] World premiere of "a totally terrible piece of 
> music"
>
>
>> I think you've got it, Tom. "Phorion" belongs to that rave-y, cut up
>> culture which was far from existing in 1967. I too can relate it to 
>> Spike
>> Jones and Carl Stalling,
>> but it's seriously intended and something of a milestone.
>>
>> I also wanted to tip in and to let you know -- well, you might 
>> already --
>> that jazz pianist Paul Bley, whose death was announced yesterday, had 
>> his
>> first recording
>> session at Fine Sound Studios, in 1954.
>>
>> And on the contemporary front, word is getting out that Pierre Boulez 
>> has
>> died at age 90. That's a towering figure; won 26 Grammys and held 
>> enormous
>> sway over
>> developments in European music in the last 60 years or so.
>>
>> best,
>>
>> Dave Lewis
>> Hamilton, OH
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 8:29 AM, Tom Fine <[log in to unmask]> 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I think this is the Youtube of which Dave writes:
>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtQ9XZ7f_Rg
>>>
>>> Agree the performance is more coherent. I could see an interesting 
>>> concept
>>> of setting that whole Baroque Variations to an intense rave-type 
>>> light and
>>> video show. Create a multi-media utopia-dystopia vibe. A new take on 
>>> the
>>> Warhol "Happening" concept. Do it in an old circus tent. Maybe use some
>>> pyrotechnics to enhance the percussion hits.
>>>
>>> -- Tom Fine
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Lewis" <[log in to unmask]>
>>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>> Sent: Friday, January 01, 2016 2:51 PM
>>>
>>> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] World premiere of "a totally terrible piece of
>>> music"
>>>
>>>
>>> There is a YouTube of the Buffalo "Baroque Variations," via "the 
>>> Wellesz
>>>> Company," which posts a lot of albums of modern music. But the LP copy
>>>> they
>>>> used is
>>>> IMHO unacceptably scratchy and, indeed, clean copies of that 
>>>> particular
>>>> Nonesuch are hard to find. It occurs to me that a fair number of 
>>>> Nonesuch
>>>> albums are
>>>> noisy above and beyond the call, though the worst ones are their 
>>>> Digital
>>>> LPs from the 80s, which were from the factory defective.
>>>>
>>>> best,
>>>>
>>>> UD
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Jan 1, 2016 at 2:42 PM, Malcolm <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Your upload is still there as of about 5 minutes ago, Tom.
>>>>> If you, or anyone else here, should locate a later, better, more 
>>>>> balanced
>>>>> performance of this piece I would like to hear it.
>>>>> Malcolm
>>>>>
>>>>> *******
>>>>>
>>>>> On 12/31/2015 3:45 PM, Tom Fine wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I've now put the audio of the premiere performance up at Dropbox:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://www.dropbox.com/s/fl7s8skcq3q3ggw/NY%20Philharmonic%20670427%20-%2001-Lukas%20Foss%20-%20Phorion%20%28world%20premiere%29.mp3?dl=0 
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I cannot guarantee Dropbox will allow too many downloads, so if 
>>>>>> you want
>>>>>> it, grab it.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Anyone who knows a better no-fee system, I'm all ears. I have a 
>>>>>> lot of
>>>>>> offbeat and obscure audio I'd love to share, but don't want to 
>>>>>> pay to
>>>>>> share
>>>>>> it. Is there any easy way to do Youtubes with just audio, for 
>>>>>> instance
>>>>>> is
>>>>>> there software that will just put some generic image around an audio
>>>>>> file
>>>>>> and render it to a video? Youtube apparently requires some sort 
>>>>>> of video
>>>>>> element for a file upload. I certainly don't have the time or
>>>>>> inclination
>>>>>> to get into video production to share audio, but if there's some
>>>>>> automated
>>>>>> way to select an audio file and a photo file and get a MPEG or 
>>>>>> MOV file
>>>>>> that's Youtube compatible rendered out of it, I'll try it.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -- Tom Fine
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Lewis" <[log in to unmask]>
>>>>>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>>>>> Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2015 7:04 PM
>>>>>> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] World premiere of "a totally terrible 
>>>>>> piece of
>>>>>> music"
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I've always known it from recordings and like it -- I think it is an
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> important piece, just by virtue of being a "mash-up."
>>>>>>> I do think that Foss' own recording, with Buffalo for Nonesuch, 
>>>>>>> is a
>>>>>>> bit
>>>>>>> more convincing than Bernstein's, which seems
>>>>>>> more exploratory and tentative.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Happy New Year!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Uncle Dave Lewis
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 6:16 PM, Steven Smolian 
>>>>>>> <[log in to unmask]>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I was at that concert and hated the piece.  PDQ Bach it wasn't, 
>>>>>>> nor had
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> it
>>>>>>>> the snarkiness of Alfred Schnittke nor the dry gumor of Cage. It
>>>>>>>> seemed
>>>>>>>> a
>>>>>>>> mash-up with no apparent connections of the inserts to one 
>>>>>>>> another nor
>>>>>>>> to
>>>>>>>> the musical framework.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Steve Smolian
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>>>> From: Association for Recorded Sound Discussion List
>>>>>>>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Tom Fine
>>>>>>>> Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2015 4:41 PM
>>>>>>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>>>>>>> Subject: [ARSCLIST] World premiere of "a totally terrible piece of
>>>>>>>> music"
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> It's not often that a scathing review like this gets written:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> https://www.dropbox.com/s/4qbixnsusqkd5c2/World%20Journal%20Tribune%20670428 
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> %20Lucas%20Foss%20piece%20booed%20by%20NYPO%20audience.pdf?dl=0
>>>>>>>> or that people jeer at a NY Philharmonic concert!
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Listen and judge for yourself:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> https://soundcloud.com/tom-fine-1/ny-philharmonic-concert-april-27-1967-luka 
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> s-foss-phorion-world-premiere/s-LZz7Y
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Recording found on a yard-sale reel tape, the review was 
>>>>>>>> included in
>>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>> box. Surprisingly good fidelity for quarter-track off-air taping,
>>>>>>>> although
>>>>>>>> the channels were reversed and there's considerable edge warp 
>>>>>>>> on the
>>>>>>>> ancient
>>>>>>>> acetate-backed 1-mil tape.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Happy New Year!
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> -- Tom Fine
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>
>>
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