Encased in a futuristic cube, the sonic sorcerer blends gut-churning bass and trippy hip-hop for a thrillingly immersive spectacle
Turn off that iPad tonight Im going to make you feel something, commands Flying Lotus, AKA Steven Ellison, to a member of the audience filming him. He makes good on his promise: tonights performance is a mind-warping audiovisual treat for all the senses.
Ellison has come up with a unique solution to the challenge of how you make the guy twiddling knobs and playing on a laptop show come alive: hes encased himself in a futuristic, high-tech cube called Layer³, as all manner of flashing 3D animations tentacles, eyeballs and animals emanate from it, with Ellison controlling the sounds from within. It gives him the appearance of a sonic sorcerer as, wearing a mask and illuminated bug-eyed goggles, he summons sounds, raising his hands and dropping them again, as the team controlling the visuals react to his music in real time. At the end of the show he salutes them: Theres no pre-set anything were jamming together.
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by Danny Wright via Electronic music | The Guardian
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