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Lighting up the scene
Updated On: 20 November, 2019 08:58 AM IST | Mumbai | Shunashir Sen
An electronic music festival that promises a visual spectacle returns this weekend
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Cutting-edge visual design has always been at the forefront of Disrupt
Take yourself back five years. Think of where the Indian electronic music scene was placed then. Sure, there was a pretty robust list of artistes populating it, with people like Nucleya and Dualist Inquiry starting to make the audience eat out of their hands. The quality of the sound at the gigs wasn't, well, world-class. But it was getting there. What the scene lacked, though, was the ability of most promoters to put up the sort of visual spectacle that would knock your socks off. Technologies like projection mapping and motion graphics to accompany the music were still rare. And what you normally had were just a bunch of LED lights in bright colours creating patterns on the floor and walls of a room (though the production quality at outdoor venues was often better).
But with time, things started literally lighting up. Proof of that lies in the idea behind Disrupt, a three-year-old electronic music festival that's returning to the city, and which puts technology at its forefront. Music management firm Mixtape is organising it. Naveen Deshpande, its founder, tells us that the Internet and increased physical access to festivals abroad have given local visual artistes the knowledge they need to replicate the environment at, say, a club like Fabric in London. "A lot of youngsters also write to me these days saying they want to learn about lights, and the experts we work with get the same requests," he says, adding that that's why he's introduced a new element of workshops and masterclasses on visual design that will precede the gigs at night.
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