Communikey - Festival of Electronic Arts
DIY Headcase @ Atlas Institute Friday, April 16th, 2010 Boulder, CO
long form / polyrhythms / modular psychedelia / new and temporary creatures
Lucky Dragons and White Rainbow have been noted for redefining the rules of live electronic and electro acoustic music with their unusual performances and non-standard album releases. The showcase spotlights DIY craftsmanship and aesthetics in live performance, amplified in the high fidelity setting of a black box theater.
Lucky Dragons is the experimental, multi-media, and genre-bending work created by the Los Angeles-based duo Luke Fischbeck and Sarah Rara. They are about the birthing of new and temporary creatures - equal-power situations in which audience members cooperate amongst themselves, building up fragile networks held together by such light things as skin contact, unfamiliar language, temporary logic, the spirit of celebration, and things that work but you don't know why. At the heart of it all is playing together-building up social collectivities, re-engaging the wonder and impossibility of technological presence. It sounds, and looks, like simple and ancient patterns coming together and falling apart in a sincere attempt to let wires and screens and words become clear and crystal.