Producer Atom TM once made salsa versions of Kraftwerk songs. Now with artist Robin Fox, he has created a spectacular laser dance show delivering noise straight to our ‘reptilian brains’
The sight of a head bobbing slightly behind a laptop can’t really compare with the axe-wielding spectacle of rock, so electronic musicians have long paired themselves with flashy visuals. The best are unforgettable – Daft Punk’s disco pyramid, Kraftwerk’s 3D projections – but many, generally based around zooming geometric graphics or photo collages, look a bit like a screensaver made for an introspective Bond villain.
With their new collaboration Double Vision, German producer Atom TM (aka Uwe Schmidt aka Señor Coconut) and Australian artist Robin Fox are avoiding these cliches, with music that swings between sleek pop and mangled noise, and visuals dominated by a trio of red, green and blue lasers. These shudder across all four walls and three dimensions, until your body feels diced by colour. It’s even more impressive when you realise Fox is taking Schmidt’s improvised noise and translating it directly into laser light.
I was described recently as 'part of the post-conceptual military entertainment complex' … I kind of like that
EDM's kind of interesting, but interesting like a heart attack is interesting
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