I only recently have become aware of Aural States a mostly local (but also national) music blog which has hosted the night's event at Sonar. A dozen local bands performed live on two stages from 7:30pm 'til 2am - i left at around 1:20 and Hollywood, the last band had just finished their 3rd song at the time.
It's rare that my $10 would by me this much music - and the place filled up to the tilt by 11pm. Arriving early, I even got a goodie bag with CDs of some of the performers and some other stuff, although what exactly, I will never know since while packing up my photo gear, I left my bag behind. So if anyone found it by the club stage, please send it along - yeah, right.
The place was so dark, that it posed a pretty good challenge to shoot some panoramics and I couldn't help but recall the similarly dark Sonar space on Canton Square, which I photographed some 8 years ago. I will attempt to find the panorama to post here for chuckles. But even with the significantly more advanced equipment I had along almost a decade later, the 1600-3200 ISO images will come through grainy - not unlike the experience photographed, so I hope you still sense the feeling and the music through the noise.
Thanks to everyone attending for letting me up front for the shots.
Arbouretum at the Aural States Fest
view panorama via flash | quicktime
Wye Oak at the Aural States Fest
view panorama via flash | quicktime
Imperial China at the Aural States Fest
view panorama via flash | quicktime
A series of images are taken and then those are stitched together using specialized software.
these are so awesome! how were these even made?
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