ABOUT
BLACK SUN PRISM is an audio-visual series, featuring collaborations between Black Moon Howl and various musicians and visual artists from around the country.
The goal of the series is to explore and reimagine how to live music and live visuals can symbiotically interact. Since both the audio and the visuals are performed live, the visuals influence the creation of the music (and vice versa) in real time.
Black Sun Prism I is the first album to be released from this live performance series.

FUNDING
Black Sun Prism was funded by/conceived as a project for Mish Granted.

VISUALS
Black Sun Prism Vol. I featured live visuals by Mark Franz.
Mark used Resolume Arena V to mix and edit video clips on the fly in response to the live music. This process of non-linear editing, combined with live effects that responded to audio triggers, utilized archival footage that highlights the value of labor and the laborer. In this way, it is responds to the history of psychedelic visualizations that promoted the laborer as hero during live music performance.

MUSIC
All songs were completely improvised by:
BLACK MOON HOWL (all tracks)
Steve Jones // bass, keyboards, pedal synth, drums
Julian Peterson // guitar
AND
Russick Smith // cello (tracks 2-9)
Ben Fullerton // drums and percussion (tracks 3-9)
Anthony Cross // keyboards (tracks 7-9)

ART
Cover painting by Josh DiGiorgio
Design by Alejandra Abad & Steve Jones
Font Design by John E. Hunt of Arcadian Pictures

VENUE
Performed and recorded at Farm of Wolves

Black Moon Howl © 2018