FOR IMMEDIATE
RELEASE: Joshua Light Show to perform free outdoor concert with German electronic
musician Manuel Gttsching at Lincoln Center Out of Doors Festival on August
15, 2008
800 Years of
Minimalism: The Spiritual Transcendent
Presented by
Lincoln Center Out of Doors and Wordless Music
Beata
Viscera: The Music of Protin
Rhys Chatham:
A Crimson Grail, for 200 Electric Guitars (Outdoor Version) (World Premiere)
Manuel
Gttsching: E2-E4 (U.S. Premiere)
With the
Joshua Light Show (World Premiere collaboration)
The Joshua Light
Show, known by many a New Yorker for creating the iconic psychedelic imagery
that set the stage for musicans such as Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, The Who,
Grateful Dead, The Doors and Frank Zappa at Bill Graham's legendary
lower-east-side rock palace, the Fillmore East, performs this summer at Lincoln
CenterÕs Damrosch Park alongside German electronic musician Manuel Gttsching
for the American concert premiere of seminal minimalist compostion, E2-E4.
Led by
multimedia artist and television director Joshua White, a team of live-cinema
artists will literally fill the clam-shaped bandshell of Damrosch Park with an
eye-popping display of kinetic effects and colorful abstractions. Improvised in real time using a variety
of classic techniques—including the signature oil-and-water Ōwet
showĶ—and mixed with video, the Joshua Light Show stands out in contrast
to much of the pre-programmed, computer-based animation commonplace in
contemporary video design. The Joshua Light Show will feature the contributions
of White's senior collaborator, Bec Stupak, in addition to the artists Alyson
Denny, Seth Kirby, and Brock Monroe.
This
world-premiere collaboration with Manuel Gttsching is the finale of a concert
entitled Ō800 Years of Minimalism - The Spiritual Transcendent,Ķ co-presented
by Lincoln Center Out Of Doors and Wordless Music, which features the music of
Protin performed by newly-formed vocal ensemble Beata Viscera and the outdoor
premiere of a new work for 200 electric guitars by Rhys Chatham. The concert will take place at 7pm on
Friday, August 15, at Lincoln CenterÕs Damrosch Park, best accessed from 62nd
street between Amsterdam and Columbus avenues. The entire event is free-of-charge and open to the public.
Joshua White studied theater at Carnegie Mellon
University and film at University of Southern California. He is well-known for
developing the lightshow at Bill GrahamÕs Fillmore East during the late 1960s.
At this time, he also created special effects for the film Midnight Cowboy.
After the lightshowÕs performance at Woodstock in 1969, White shifted to
giant-screen video projection and then to directing television. His credits
include Seinfeld, The Max Headroom Show, Club MTV and Inside The Actors Studio.
In the 1990s, White returned to creating fine art installations in
collaboration with Michael Smith, and in 2004 developed a new lightshow with
comic artist and designer, Gary Panter.
The first show since 1969 billed as Joshua Light Show was performed in
April 2007 at The Kitchen.
Subsequent engagements include headlining the annual Netmage live media
festival in Bologna alongside the music of Simeon Coxe/Silver Apples and a
four-day residency at the Issue Project Room in Brooklyn. His artwork has shown at the Whitney
Museum of American Art, Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C., Los Angeles
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tate Liverpool, Kunsthalle Schim Frankfurt, Blanton
Museum of Art, Austin, and the Kunsthalle Wien. His ŌLiquid LoopsĶ DVD is
available for purchase from The Center for Visual Music. The Joshua Light Show has also
contributed psychedelic art for the Public TheaterÕs current production of Hair
as part of Shakespeare in the Park at the Delacorte Theater.
For more information on the
concert, including detailed artist information, please visit:
http://www.lincolncenter.org/show_events_list.asp?eventcode=-62531
High resolution imagery of the Joshua Light Show available upon
request
For Joshua Light Show related inquiries, please contact Nick
Hallett at nick@harknessav.org