In this first in a series of surreptitious snapshot stories, No Cameras Allowed is pleased to present these photos of one of my favorite live acts, Alice Cooper.
Sorry, on this one all I had with me was my iPhone. The cameras in these first and second generation iPhones are lacking to put it mildly. But I did manage to grab a few sole-stealing snaps of The Coop before and after they hung him for his sins.
Below are photos from the October 2007 performance at the Verizon Wireless (maybe that’s why my ATT phone did poorly) Theater in Houston Texas. The first photos is of the opening act, Lillian Axe. The second blurry photo is Alice’s set list. It was being passed around the audience before the show. The remaining shots are all pure Alice. Enjoy.
Check out the work of experimental musician Atsuhiro Ito and his invention, the Optron. His handmade instrument is a customized florescent light fixture that uses microphones near the transformer to pick up the “tone”. Since most modern fixtures now use noise-free electronic ballasts in place of transformers, you can also think of this instrument as “vintage”.
Ito manages to get an impressive variety of sounds and rhythms by interacting with his axe through grounding and power cycling, as well as processing through a number of guitar pedals. Ito and a group of improvisational musicians regularly perform their unique “Japanoise” in Japan and the US.
Atsuhiro Ito was born in 1965. He launched his career as a visual artist in the late ’80s, and in ’98 began presenting sound performances at art exhibitions and so on. Ito made use of fluorescent lighting (which is also an element of his art installations) in the creation of an original musical device called the optron. He continues to refine the instrument while approaching sound and music from a contemporary-art-based perspective.
In this first in a series of surreptitious snapshot stories, No Cameras Allowed is pleased to present these photos of one of my favorite live acts, Alice Cooper.
