Talk:Liquid light shows
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I have just started this page as "Light shows' was being redirected to Laser Light Shows. Most people do not consider laser shows as true light shows and a page covering this (almost) lost art is (I believe) an important addition to Wikipedia.
EDITORS. Please allow me time to create and reference this STUB in a full article.
References will prove VERY HARD TO FIND (as most good light shows kept their methods secret) and so I ask that a degree of latitude be given. I have first hand knowledge of the topic. I will do my best to reference everything but this will take time.
Aimulti (talk) 06:39, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Limbic move
I moved this because of Mark Hanau self promotion and source doesn't verify. If some body has sources please give them. The library.mcmaster.ca reference goes to a page of filed correspondence of a person named White. Doesn't say anything about aproduction of anything by Lohmeyer. HEre is what I moved
"The Lymbic System (London, England) was both a light show created by rock photographer/designer Mark Hanau and later a full multi media live stage show. Early Lymbic System shows (1969 to 1974) included a show using a bank of massive 5,000 watt Rieche and Vogal projectors for the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art's production of The Killer by Eugène Ionesco and a performance by Aletta Lohmeyer (daughter of German Cultural Councilor, Dr. Lohmeyer [1]) at the Goethe-Institut in London. The show pioneered the 'edge drive liquid cassette', Psycovision (a strobe projector with edge drive image holder and was one of the originators of polarized salt crystal projection. The Lymbic System later teamed with Sorrel Carson's The Actor’s Study [2] and was developed into a multimedia show with live actors combined with light special effects and film. The Lymbic System Show was managed by Roy Guest (ex General Manager of the Beatles agency NEMS) and a show was booked at the Criterion Theatre but the massive production was abruptly terminated after Roy Guest lost money on a previous show. Lymbic System later sold most of it's unique technology and graphics to Light Fantastic, a psychedelic lighting effects company founded by Peter Cutchey [3][4] (Mark Scott who's real name was Peter Cutchey was bassist in the Belfast Gypsies, the Them (band) spinoff group that made a good early Them-styled album 1967) and in commercial form achieved on-going success over the following two decades. Mark later managed Curved Air and UFO (band) and co-founded The Academy of Live and Recorded Arts in London."
-RetroS1mone (talk) 12:24, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Art Scene
The origins in the art scene are completely missing in this article, giving an overall wrong idea of the phenomenon. For instance, Tony Martin (http://www.tonymartin.us/statement/statement.html, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYkva3KxVc8) has played a crucial role, starting to create light shows with the musicians of the San Francisco Tape Music Center at the beginning of the 60ies and only afterwards (from 1965 on) working at Fillmore West with Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead etc. Maybe there are other predecessors?? Any experts around??? 77.10.164.116 (talk) 21:28, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
