Word: strobes
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Some time later, when most of the groups had degenerated back into the love mounds out of which they had formed, Ted turned on the lights, announced the beginning of the "free dance," turned off the lights, and turned on a colored strobe. Some fast music began to play. In the strobe, to the music, worn out and relaxed by the exercises of the first half of the evening, everybody danced. They danced happily, passionately, playfully, romantically, with Ted leading them all. After an hour and a half, many were still dancing, and as one group of students turned...
...more harrowing than anything in 2001. Through the combined efforts of choreographer Elizabeth Martin and technical director Robert Seay, I found myself trapped in the center of the looting and sniping. It all begins in wild exhilaration--radios blare, clothes are thrown about, girls scream wildly. Then with strobe lights and recordings, the shooting surrounds you. When it ends, just a few groaning bodies remain. Real catharsis is denied...
...Boston just might be offering a belated apology to the hippies who were treated so ungraciously on the Common this past summer, when it announced "The Sound and Light Experience." Plans had been submitted by PULSA, a research group from the Department of Art at Yale, to install 55 strobe lights under the surface of the normally staid Swan Pond, and to surround the Public Garden with 52 polyplaner speakers. The whole computer operated program promised "a factual, physiological experience of rhythmic patternings of light and sound energies, the rate and scale of which resemble the neuro-electrical basis...
...bringing the Word were the Acid Tests ("Can you pass the Acid Test?"), mixed-media happenings at which LSD was served diluted in Kool Aid). The just-born Grateful Dead would make music. There were plenty of things to play with, like fingerpaints or day-glo, movies to watch, strobe lights, and Pranksters directing the show...
From the ceiling hangs a huge mobile by Britain's Gordon Pask that responds electronically to lights flashed on it by visitors. Wen Ying Tsai's sonically activated bed of strobe-lit steel rods sways to each clap of the viewer's hands. Taped sounds of computer-composed music fill the air, and computer-made poetry is on view. Some of it reads rather like Alice in Wonderland as rewritten by Charles Olson...