I've been wanting to do the same thing and have been looking onto getting a projector that works with a laptop, then I can do whatever I want to with it and tailor the projection to individual songs etc.
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If you wanted to go the DIY route, I saw a documentary a few years back where guys from San Fran in the late 60s (psychedelia central) would pour colored oils in a glass bowl on a basic school projector and let it mix. All you would have to do is find a cheap light projector and maybe like food coloring or dye. Project it on the back wall. Boom, psychedelic lighting.
I use a critter and guitari videoscope and a cheapy projector I got off craigslist. It's pretty cool because it's like a big psychadelic oscilloscope and it responds to your sound! The last two concerts I've been to were both using the mathmos space projector though. I want to combine both of them for ultimate trippy jam sesh.
The link I posted has detailed instructions that do work 2 glass clock covers, sugar dye, and a projector. Check Craigslist for the projector that's where I got mine.
aen wrote:Or I'll just use fuzz. Then Ill sound cool regardless.
Achtane wrote:Well, volcanoes are pretty fuckin' cool. Like I guess lava flows are doomy. Slow and still able to to melt your eardrums.
I make trippy videos with the luminancer app on my phone. Splice them together in windows movie maker and burn them to dvd. Then I hook up my dvd player to a $30 projector I got on ebay.
whoa trip out man i always wondered how they did that at the last hangrr show on 420 one of the kids had that tiny projector attached to his ipod wasnst workin out so well
I saw a show once where a band had a dedicated lights guy that had one of those old overhead projectors from grade school and he messed around with colored liquids in a jar and tupperware. It was... interesting.
overhead projectors with oil lenses + multiple slide projectors = classic 60s light show. the trick from what i've seen is getting the color intensity and the consistency of the fluids just right.
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Standard school overhead projector and glass plates with water and oil paints were pretty standard in the ‘60s Some focused those and a slide or 16 mm film projector on the same screen and ran them together.
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