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‘Flying Lotus in 3D’ is a jam session between music and holograms
Backstage at the concert venue Brooklyn Steel in New York, the artist Flying Lotus was discussing his persistent desire to create experiences so new that they were inconceivable to an audience before the show. "I want people to be able to just be like, 'Wow, that exists? Wow, this is happening? This is possible?'" said the producer and musician, whose name is Steven Ellison. "I want people to remember magical feelings, like being enchanted and being mesmerized and just having a new experience. That is what I'm always chasing after." In following this idea, the jazz, hip hop and electronic music artist has made a conceptual album about death, performed at a Hollywood cemetery and made a film about -- literally -- shit. His latest experiment, however, is in 3D: a 28-stop tour where audiences put on glasses to see an abstract technological spectacle surround them as he plays.
