Installation A

I believe it was in 2005 when we gathered at the Polvo Gallery in the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago.  I had asked everyone to wear white, a callback to the Velvet Underground and Andy Warhol projecting images on the band as they performed.  
I had been inspired from reading the liner notes of "Bombay the Hard Way - Guns, Cars, and Sitars", how they would soundtrack the movies in Bollywood.  The bands never saw the movies before; there was no rehearsal; the musicians would improvise the soundtrack music on the spot while screening the movies for the first time.  So in a typical session they would screen and soundtrack several movies in a row, one after another.
Something called me to mash this up with Andy Warhol's "fifteen minutes of fame" and my community of friends at the time: activists, video artists, actors, musicians and non-musicians; many of us were already pushing the limits of the creativity through our group processes informed by the anarchist and media collectives active in Chicago at the time.  I asked people to bring non-traditional instruments and encouraged folks to be experimental.  Hence, Christy showed up with a typewriter to play and Tom decided to project through a rotating prism.
The result was meant to be chaotic and unpredictable, pure creativity, not meant to be judged by any standard.
Here is the first installation of this form of "instant composition", and certainly not the last:
https://youtu.be/KQ9IRyQsD_w