Eye Candy

The Brazilian musician Amon Tobin landed on my radar with his 1998 album Permutation. It was an interesting electronic album - back when I hadn't heard many - full of great soundscapes, but not terribly complex. Essentially, the perfect early-2000s college stoner soundtrack.

On Tobin's current tour, which I happily got to visit last night at the Brooklyn Masonic Temple, tracks are still ambient but feel more mature; they're also accompanied by an incredible visual spectacle known as the Isam stage.

photo by Joshua Maser

This 25′ x 14′ x 8′ cubist structure resembles, as one reviewer put it, "what God’s screensaver must look like." Tobin himself sits inside one of the cubes with a silver mac powerbook, climbing out only to take occasional sheepish bows.

Here are just a few of the stunning, ever-morphing projections that moved and breathed across Tobin's 3D cubes:

Breathtaking! Go see this guy, even if you aren't a big fan of loud electronic sounds. Just be sure to bring earplugs and a good beer buzz.