Live Video Projection along with motion graphics and pre-edited content
Paul Clay – VJ / Live Video Projection Design. Included live video camera feed, along with titles, and pre-recorded content.
Produced by Gemini & Scorpio, Online Dating Gurus and Offline Party Mavens. A marvellous and mysterious event…a Halloween celebration of the extravagant and the grotesque…a 12-hour spectacle of atmosphere, costumery and diverse entertainments…an explosion of live music, dancing, circus arts, fire and late-night revelry, snake-charmed into an absinthe-fueled early-morning speakeasy.
With: A demonic dance floor by Brooklyn Wonderland with DJ Stylus, DJ Dirtyfinger and Reaganomics, plus live percussion by Blood Drums…Hand-cranked phonograph music by WFMU’s DJ Michael Cumella…Exotic Balkan rhythms by Raya Brass Band…Victorian music box mix, toy piano mayhem and circus techno by Sxip Shirey…An explosive fire experience by Dan Glass…Remixed vintage beats and frightfully sexy dance grooves by DJ Shakey…A pineal-tingling sunrise blend of live flute over world electronica by SuKhush…Live vintage soul + funk remix breakfast set by Cloud.
Costume inspiration: Dark Victoriana, macabre carnival, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Georges Melies & Brothers Quay films, Edward Gorey, cabinet of curiosities.
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