The Joshua Light Show
The Joshua Light Show is a light show , which was founded in 1967 by Joshua White in New York and with analog devices such as slide projectors, overhead projectors, color wheels, prisms and mirrors background animations to psychedelic rock concerts by groups like the Grateful Dead , The Doors , Jimi Hendrix , Frank Zappa and others created. Here were u. a. colored oleaginous liquids used in the intermeshing new variations as running back projection or Aufpro were projected on a white surface behind or above the musicians.
Bill Graham hired the group, which at times consisted of up to ten members, for the then new Fillmore East .
Due to their enormous popularity, the group increasingly appeared in classic concert halls such as Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center .
In 2012, the Joshua Light Show performed three times in front of a sold-out hall as part of the Transmediale in the House of World Cultures . a. with Manuel Göttsching as a highlight. For this purpose they had an equipment of several thousand kilos of material flown in from New York.