Borahm Lee and Anti-Alias, two members of the Pretty Lights Live Band ensemble, debuted the first installment of “Harmonic Fusion,” a journey into realtime audio visual synthesis in Boulder, Colorado on Sunday, March 23.
Borham Lee is a keyboardist and producer for Pretty Lights Live Band as well as Break Science. Jack Hurley, also known as Anti-Alias, is a multimedia artist and visual jockey (VJ). The duo has performed with the wider Pretty Lights Live Band at venues such as Red Rocks Amphitheatre, The Brooklyn Mirage, and Hampton Coliseum. For Harmonic Fusion, they collaborated to bring an immersive performance into a new setting: Fiske Planetarium.
Fiske Planetarium, nested on campus at the University of Colorado Boulder, is a 200-seat planetarium built in 1975. The 65-foot diameter dome boasts an 8K resolution projection screen and built-in 7.1 channel surround sound. Reinforced, low-end sound was provided by Shakedown Productions, a local Colorado promotions company.
The result? A sold out, immersive and encompassing audio-visual display that transported the audience into a euphoric world of color, light, and sound.
Twoleggedzoo opened the evening with a 45-minute ambient set complemented by nature-inspired mandala visuals by Floso. The audience was transported from woodland nature scenes to the depths of space, including the rocky rings of Saturn.
The Harmonic Fusion set began with a darkened planetarium screen, quoting the spoken word of late filmmaker and transcendentalist David Lynch, “Life is filled with abstractions, and the only way we make heads or tails of it is through intuition.”
What followed was a seamless blend of music across genres and time periods, including Nina Simone’s “Feeling Good,” No Doubt’s “Hella Good,” and Radiohead’s “Everything in its Right Place,” which is sampled in the classic Pretty Lights mash up “Pretty Lights vs Radiohead vs Nirvana vs NIN.” Lee guided the audience through a sonic journey that felt somehow like a yearning and a remembering, refocusing on what makes us human including themes of love, time, and presence. Check out a fan clip below.
Harmonic Fusion set from Borahm Lee and Anti-Alias
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Anti-Alias provided the visual scene, dazzling the audience with colorful displays of concentric circles and patterns that felt nebulous yet coordinated. Several times throughout the performance, Lee would play the keys and the dome screen would light up with neon piano key silhouettes, engulfing the audience in a synchronistic audio-visual experience.
Altogether, it was a noteworthy evening that pushed the boundaries of the live-music experience into something more spiritual. The real time synthesis of audio and visuals, paired with the unique planetarium setting, transported the audience into a sublime landscape that felt like a breath of fresh air. It was refreshing to experience a new way to experience live music, rather than crowded dancefloors and long lines at the bar in oversold venues late at night.
While this was the first Harmonic Fusion performance, we certainly hope it won’t be the last. Who knows, perhaps the creators are setting their sights on hosting something similar in Sin City one day.
About Borahm Lee
Borham Lee is a producer and keyboard player that has a long standing creative history with Pretty Lights, producing and performing keys for iterations of the live band including the Analogue Future Band (2013), Pretty Lights Live (2016-2018) and the current iteration of Pretty Lights Live Band that has been active since the Pretty Lights return in 2023.
His musical career spans beyond Pretty Lights alone. He is a founding member of Break Science, which has been blending eletro-hip hop, funk, glitch-hop, and live instrumentation since 2010. He is also a member of BTTRFLY Quintet, a jazz-electronic fusion group composed of electro-soul heavy hitters such as Eric Benny Bloom (Trumpet) of Lettuce, Dominic Lalli (Saxophone) of Big Gigantic, Adam Dietch (Drums) of Lettuce and Hunter Roberts (guitar). Lee has self-released music and performed as a solo act as well.
About Anti-Alias
Jack Hurley, known as Anti-Alias, is a multimedia artist who specializes in real-time immersive art, technology, and animation. Anti-Alias’ role with Pretty Lights includes working as a VJ, content creator, and visual programmer. He utilizes TouchDesigner to develop custom tools to manipulate audio and integrate with other 3D real-time software such as Notch. Anti-Alias creates custom visuals and animations to complement Pretty Lights’ live performances, which have become an integral visual component of the Pretty Lights live music experience for those attending in-person or fans watching (and rewatching) the live stream via the Lucid Stream.
