Electric
Collage
Visual music · 1967—1971

Atlanta, Georgia · The original visual music show

Music foryour eyes.

A hand-built collision of light, liquid, film and live sound—projected behind the artists who changed music forever.

Before pixels. Before presets. Before “immersive” was a buzzword. We played the visuals live.

Electric Collage fused colored oils, film loops, glass, mirrors and pure instinct into living images. Operators improvised in real time, responding to every guitar scream, bass drop and shift in the crowd.

Nothing was automated. Nothing could be repeated. Every show existed once—then disappeared into the memories of the people who saw it.

Three festivals.
750,000+ minds.

1969

Atlanta Pop Festival I

Atlanta International Raceway · Hampton, Georgia

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1969

Dallas International Pop Festival

Lewisville, Texas · Labor Day weekend

02
1970

Atlanta Pop Festival II

Byron, Georgia · Jimi Hendrix at midnight

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Analog
alchemy.

Part science experiment, part performance art. The image was an instrument—and the room was the canvas.

01 / LIQUID

Oil + dye

Brilliant liquids heated, cooled and manipulated between glass plates.

02 / FILM

Layered film

Hand-shot 16mm loops, painted slides and real-world imagery in motion.

03 / LIGHT

Live projection

Prisms, mirrors and dimmers mixed by hand to follow the musicians.

See how the show was produced

The sound was legendary.
The light made it larger.

JIMI HENDRIX ✦ JANIS JOPLIN ✦ LED ZEPPELIN ✦ SANTANA ✦ ALLMAN BROTHERS ✦ B.B. KING ✦ SLY & THE FAMILY STONE ✦ 
  • Joe Cocker
  • Fleetwood Mac
  • Johnny Winter
  • Canned Heat
  • Spirit
  • Steppenwolf
  • Grand Funk Railroad
  • Ten Years After
  • Richie Havens
  • Procol Harum
  • The Chambers Brothers
  • Captain Beefheart
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The light still moves

Keep the
pictures alive.

“The shows were gorgeous, transfixing and poignant. I can still remember the projected figure of a small ballerina as she pirouetted amidst the swirls of moving color.”

— Brad, audience member · 1970

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