Short clip of Atsuhiro Ito performing at Bad Timing in Cambridge. Using the Optron, essentially fluorescent light tubes with integrated guitar pick-ups sent through guitar amp stacks. When the voltage applied to the tubes is altered, the lights flicker and the pick-ups harvest the electromagnetic noise perfectly synchronized with the flickering light, the intense noise creating a visual hallucination and the sounds veering from some kind of extreme techno to outright noise.
wow!
boyandurica 1 year ago