Kid Infinity beams concert-goers into a new land
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The wizardy of Ryan Pardeiro and Nathan Huber is still a work in progress, but the electro duo known as Kid Infinity succeeded Saturday night in turning a rustic ballroom at downtown’s Alexandria Hotel into something akin to the Holodeck on the U.S.S. Enterprise. In only their second live performance, Kid Infinity’s eye-popping 3D visuals offered a glimpse of the next generation of concert experiences.
Bring on the festivals.
It as almost an insult that people brought glowsticks to the show – it was like taking Boone’s Farm to a wine tasting. With the crowd furnished polarized 3D glasses, singer-programmer Pardeiro and DJ-programmer Huber performed in front of a large screen displaying animations that seemed to vault into, dance above and interact with the audience. Sci-fi, meet hi-fi.
- Note: The photos accompanying this review were shot with a point-and-shoot through one lens of the 3D glasses. They’re not exactly works of art, but hopefully you get the idea.
The technology that spawned the visuals is the product of Visitech 3D, which had been developing them for use on a 90-by-30-foot screen planned for the Michael Jackson “This Is It” tour. After Jackson’s death, Huber – who works as an office manager for the company – received permission for the band to try the visuals at shows. The designs themselves are the vision of several animators.
The music itself was fairly standard electro fare – caustic and ravey – and, beyond pure volume, its effects virtually disintegrated in the room’s muddy sound mix. Not that anybody was too interested in dancing, anyway; most of the onlookers were too agape, transfixed on the visuals and, probably, imagining what Kid Infinity could do in front of thousands at an outdoor festival.
So.. was the music good? You didn’t seem to really care for their music? Everyone keeps talking about the visuals, but it would be sad for a band to get popular over the visuals instead of music. Nice to see that jaxart is clinging on to the next popular thing, bravo!
The music was fun and energetic, reminds you of the Beastie Boys. It was loud and the visuals did take over, but that was all part of the experience.
Also, this blogger must have been in the back row, the band brought the glow sticks, huge bunches were thrown at the audience mid-set. It really added to rave vibe, all around good time.
And there were a ton of people dancing, first 40 people deep were dancing. How did the lead singer crowd surf multiple times if everyone was “agape”?
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