[Sound+Vision] Year of the Tiger, Visuals with DJ Recordings (185 min. 2010) Live visuals by Lester Alfonso captured with DJ mixes by Fever and Gnosys for an event to celebrate Chinese New Year on February 2010 at Kubo Lounge, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada.
Year of the Tiger on the Chinese Calendar, for the occasion, we planned a dance party at Kubo Lounge in Peterborough, Ontario. It was an update on the [Sound+Vision] events after about a three-year hiatus. I invited my friends Paul and Jeremy (DJs Gnosys and Fever) to join me for the celebration. I installed a rear-projection screen that I built and as was my habit, I snaked the master output of the video and audio signal into a DVD recorder. I wanted to document the sound and images we blasted that night. Today I’m uploading over three-hours of party visuals with dance music as an experiment to see what YouTube will permit.
Save this link for your instant ready-made party-in-a-box. It’s a time capsule of time. Tech ambient chill beats and live visual projections from 2010.
I was invited to a social-distance-minded conference-call-dance-party this weekend, so I had this in mind to share. I wantonly sampled images from movies and my own stuff at the time with no care about copyright. Just like a DJ I had my way these video tracks even if some are my own. I have hours and hours of VJ sets from over ten years of parties I’ve been performing at. I will be uploading them all in the next coming weeks as we get deeper into self-isolation.
Kubo Lounge owner Neil Quiano was very supportive of my DJ skills and gave me a residency there that lasted about four months. Later, we would mount a followup event called [Sound+Vision} Year of the Rabbit.
Kubo Lounge doesn’t exist anymore and neither does the moniker Original Plastic that I used to go by (as seen in the flyer for the event.) Things change. We go with the flow. We do our best. We write our story with love.
More soon so stay tuned! —LA
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