And this is just one project that uses XXXY's Infinity Simulator, a multi-media platform invented by the artist that can use any type of control device to manipulate live elements, such as 3D rigging, sound, lights, video, and gaming content.
Both spent time in the late 1970's in Echo Park, off Tremont Avenue in the west Bronx, where disc jockeys would rig their sound systems to lampposts and mix funk and R & B sounds r to create a danceable beat.
Why do all the oil rig remedies sound so thrillingly risqu?
To the more fundamental: should riders be allowed to rig up sound systems on their crossbars to get them through the darkest parts of the night?
Now, through playing indoors through really powerful rigs, their sound has morphed into something that is bordering on overwhelming.
More than that: in trial recordings, a technical set-up using just three remote controlled cameras and the Barbican's own sound rig produced a video recording of quite remarkable clarity and emotional intensity.
Outside the festival grounds, every club was booked for after-parties and every bar that could begged, borrowed, or stole to rig up a sound system so DJs could ply their trade.
The effort paid off and ROAR is now a very decent place to watch live bands--substantial stage, ample crowd space, fairly good sound rig and lights that do the job.
Grinchout was the event, consisting of two large empty barn spaces on the banks of the River Orwell, a 15K sound rig, a large field readymade for drink driving antics and sexual congress, and a collection of older youth who were to my eyes, sheer veterans of the jungle scene.
SoulCycle is basically indoor cycling in a dark studio with a decent sound rig pumping out music, while a trainer shouts the sorts of blandly motivational things your mom might post to Facebook: "Be the you you've always imagined!" or "Scream with positive energy!"—that kind of thing.
