Between 1967 and 1970, the Joshua Light Show held residence at New York's Fillmore East, performed at Woodstock, and created special effects for the party scene in the Academy-Award-winning Midnight Cowboy. In 2007, I began a collaboration with founder Joshua White, primarily as a curator of contemporary musical artists to pair with his iconic ‘live cinema.’ I helped him assemble a new team of artists—including Alyson Denny, Seth Kirby, Ana Matronic, Brock Monroe, Doug Pope, Nica Ross, and Bec Stupak—to update the Joshua Light Show's classic analog techniques with digital approaches. I continued as producer and Music Director, which led to a period of increased activity through the lightshow’s 50th anniversary in 2017. In 2011, with Jeff Cook, I produced and composed a multichannel soundscore for the lightshow's appearance at the American Museum of Natural History's Hayden Planetarium, and the next year I wrote a follow-up for a performance at the Digital Dome in Mexico City, as part of the Mutek festival.
Video by Lauren Coleman, narration by Nick Hallett
The Joshua Light Show played a performance on the opening night of the transmediale 2012 in Berlin. I was allowed to film the light projectors behind the screen for ZEIT ONLINE. (Music: Nick Hallett) More like this: http://www.zeit.de/video/index