Lighting
Light Sound Dimension (LSD)
Lighting
Light Sound Dimension (LSD)
Continuing, concurrently with his work at the Avalon and other dance events, to play with other music in his studio sessions, he explored possibilities for a more integrated experience with jazz, electronic tape music, etc. Two of San Francisco’s most innovative jazz musicians, Fred Marshall and Jerry Granelli, visited the studio and were invited to improvise. Their parallel experiments with electric sound, and their ability to improvise, provided an unusually rich opportunity for collaboration. These studio sessions resulted in the formation, with Marshall and Granelli, of an audio visual multimedia group, Light Sound Dimension. Ham’s electric action painting, with the musicians’ electronic ”orchestral” sound, proved capable of sustained audio visual improvisation. They were joined by Beverly Bivens, Noel Jewkes, and Flip Nuñez. Playing almost daily, they perfected their unique ability to improvise integrated ”abstract” audio visual compositions of unusual intensity and richness.
