Robin Fox

laser showLast night I saw this fantastic show in Oslo. At club BL? Robin Fox and Anthony Pateras (AUS) warmed up with a nerve shaking audio piece where the whole crowd was forced to wear ear plugs. Afterwards Robin Fox used one of his laser lights for the most profound aesthetic experience of the year. This is what Fox himself says to describe it: “Enveloping the audience in synchronous sound and light information, the experience resembles a synaesthetic experience where what you hear is also what you see. The same electricity generated to move the speaker cones is sent simultaneously to high-speed motors that deflect the laser light on an x/y axis converting sonic vibration into light movement.” For me it was kind of like being in the end sequence of “2001: A space odyssey”. Rays engulfed me in a rhythmic seance where the green “eye” in a distance played the part of an alien entity, a higher consciousness from Star Trek’s next generation, commanding my ears, my body and mind to become one with the light. It demanded submission. Simultaneously ideas of how to expand my own piece kept flying by. This was the kind of profoundness that I needed my audience to experience. By controlling the sound themselves they too would feel all powerful…