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| Reactive Walls | ||
| Wall surfaces designed for use in clubs; they reacted to the music played in the room. |
The club experience from the 2020's - at the Semiconductor.
| The wiredancer rippled out bagpipelike riffs over the taped rhythm section. The walls came alive.
...It started out butch, its walls glassy black; during the concert it went in gaudy drag as the sound-sensitive walls reacted to the music with color streaking, wavelengthing in oscilloscope patterns, shades of blue-white for high end, red and purple for bass and percussion. Reacting vividly, hypnotically to each note. The minimonos disliked reactive walls. They called it kitschy and "vid." |
| Technovelgy from Freezone,
by John Shirley. Published by Eclipse in 1985 Additional resources -
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