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Joshua Light Show in residence - 4 NYC nights w/ Oneida, Silver Apples, Steve Moore, Dean & Britta, Woods & more

Joshua Light Show behind Yo La Tengo @ Roseland Ballroom last September

The iconic Joshua Light Show, led by multimedia artist Josh White, remains one of the most visible proponents of the psychedelic lightshow discipline popularized in the 1960s as a means to enliven the experience of live music — an experimental cinematic medium that is also essential to the visual culture of rock. Artist and curator Nick Hallett has selected four evenings of incredible musical artists, including Silver Apples aka Simeon Coxe (who performed with the original Joshua Light Show at Bill Graham’s Fillmore East on a bill with no less than The Fugs and Norman Mailer) and pioneering English electronic musician Sonic Boom and his band Spectrum, sharing an evening with Dean & Britta. Younger talent, culled mainly from Brooklyn’s ultravivid music scene, rounds out this mini-festival, focusing on visionary, visual music.

Besides those bands, the four-night mini-fest at Abrons Art Center, which runs May 12th-May 15th includes MV+EE on a bill with Woods, Oneida with the aforementioned Silver Apples, and itsnotyouitsme with Steve Moore.

Tickets to all four shows are on sale.

A video of Joshua Light show at work and the schedule are below…

Joshua Light Show Festival 2010
Wednesday, May 12
Steve Moore
itsnotyouitsme

Thursday, May 13
Woods
MV & EE

Friday, May 14
Silver Apples
Oneida

Saturday, May 15
Spectrum
Dean & Britta