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LASER LIGHT & MUSIC PERFORMANCES
a brief History

Nancy Gorglione and Greg Cherry of Cherry Optical Holography have a long history of producing laser scanning as an art form, often in collaborative performance with musicians and dancers. We were there to spur on the evolution of the laser as artist's tool. Laser light's mesmerizing ability to sync with sound spurred the development of performance structures with laser light a star of the show. From large theater venues to skyscrapers to mountain tops and windswept sand dune beaches to intimate living room thematic rituals, we fired up the most colorful lasers we could find.

Cherry Optical's Laser Mandala Shaped by Sound.
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Below is a history of our laser performances, and some related musical events.

As Laser Affiliates, Nancy Gorglione began producing the Light Sound Motion Performance Series with an event at the Multiplex Company (formerly the School of Holography) on Shotwell Street in San Francisco, in 1974. Further laser light shows, including the US Cafe Series in 1976, introduced lasers into the Haight Ashbury culture of light shows. The aesthetic and technical synchronization of light and sound is a lifelong pursuit for Gorglione. The sheer beauty and power to uplift is inherent in single frequencies of laser light and sound.

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Early Laser Sound Motion event by Laser Affiliates

Nancy Gorglione directed Laser Affiliates, a cooperative of laser artists who informally worked together under the auspices of the Haight Ashbury Arts Workshop from 1973 to 1994, and then as an independent organization until 2002, when Laser Affiliates was merged into Cherry Optical Holography. At the Haight Ashbury Arts Workshop, diverse neighborhood community arts' programs along with the Laser Arts included: the Jazz Music Workshop; Mural Arts; a film production group, Fine Lines Films; People's Media Collective-Community Radio; and Theater Arts, from Giant Puppets to The Young People's Program.

Color Sound Motion Composition Classes
from Laser Affiliates. (poster is a misprint)

The Haight Ashbury Arts Workshop maintained a storefront on Stanyon St. by Golden Gate Park. In retrospect, it was historically significant that we developed laser light shows through the Haight Ashbury Arts Workshop. Even our storefront location was famous, first as a home for the Diggers, who dished out free food from the arched entryway, to early Hari Krishna devotees. The storefront space next evolved to the Haight Ashbury Arts Workshop. It was a vastly creative and enlightening time in San Francisco. Waves of the Hippy movement reinformed our thoughts and beings about the interconnection of all things. It was possible to survive and sometimes thrive through creating art as a way of life. And, rapidly developing technology was at our doorstep.

Haight Ashbury Jazz Music Workshop Mural
by Nancy Gorglione (Famous archway to its right.)

Ever Exploring Laser Scanning
with Greg Cherry

During Song Of Ages in 1981, (pictured on this page and below in this scroll box) Greg Cherry began engineering laser scan systems for Laser Affiliates. Greg is a prototype model maker keen from the early days of laser scanning, when umbilical cords full of 220 three-phase high voltage power and 5 gallon a minute water-cooling hoses, in and out of the laser head, were the only way to get significant laser power to light up a mountainside.

Greg Cherry tuning up the projection system for Tidal Wave on Goat Hill, below Twin Peaks in San Francisco, 1983. White light mirrors affixed to the ends of a mixed gas laser gave us a few watts of white laser light. Custom holograpic diffraction effects were multiplied into a rainbow of colors... Spectra-Physics, Inc. and later, Coherent generously loaned us lasers for our earlier public events...

LASER LIGHT & MUSIC PERFORMANCES

A few stills (above and within this scroll box) from Cherry Optical Holography's Analog Color Scanning System, Sparklelight 2010.

We produce Laser Light and Sound Performances on Equinoxes, Solstices, and some Eclipses, often with the Laser Light & Percussion Orchestra in Sonoma County, California.

Please send us email to be notified of performances.

Cherry Optical Holography's Analog Color Scanning System

We Are the Weathermakers, poster for one of the Laser Light & Percussion Orchestra Performances.

2009-2017 Description of Some of Our Larger Performances: Events produced by Cherry Optical Holography are in boldface type.

Equinox and Solstice Events:
As the Seasons change, the lasers come out at Cherry Optical Holography in thematic performances. Ongoing.

Eclipsed: Eclipse laser light sound and motion events from the Laser Light & Percussion Orchestra. 2004-current, 2017. Laser Arts Website Goes Live on Feb. 17, 2017 Lunar Eclipse. August 21 2017 Eclipse covered completely by fog and clouds; scanning potential on the Tully Fog...

12-21-12 Anniversary Night under the Laser Lights for the Laser Light & Percussion Orchestra at Cherry Optical Holography Ranch.

SparkleLight 2012, Greg Cherry's analog and digital scanning system projects sound modified patterns of laser light with bright multicolor diode lasers.

Greg Cherry creates Sparklelight 2010, our multicolor analog laser system, with pulsed color control and audio images, holographic and virtual imagery. The Bass patterns the laser! Cherry Optical Holography adds several new projection systems which could fit into a (large) briefcase.

2009 Rhythm: The Evolutionary Musical; Lasers by Nancy Gorglione and Greg Cherry and Cherry Optical Holography; Percussion with Nancy Gorglione playing gongs, surdu and djembe in a seven piece orchestra. Produced and Directed by Michael DiMartini, Santa Cruz Vets’ Theatre Hall. August.

Drum Workshop in Conakry, Guinea, West Africa Dec. 16, 2007 to Jan. 21, 2008. (Gorglione)

Drum & Dance lead by Gorglione at the World Music Festival, Grass Valley, CA.

2005-2009
Many Drum Temples, Drum Circles, and Drum and Dance Facilitation gigs for Nancy sans lasers, including:
Harmony Festival; Sierra Nevada World Music Festival; Synergetics: Shamans Music in the Redwood, Mendocino; World Music Fest Nevada City, CA. 2005-2006, Drumming at Firedance; Phoenix Firedance, and Fire Drums... all in the California Redwood Forests.

Rhythms of Light from Cherry Optical Holography

2006 Laser Light & Percussion Orchestra, private parties and outdoor events in Sonoma County.

N. Gorglione drumming on a Float at Harmony.
Note the holographic shirt. (photo by Jagot)

2005 Harmony Music Festival, Drums on Wavy Gravy’s Float, Tarot paintings & installation.

Laser Light & Percussion Orchestra, En-Trance, Kundalini trance dance at Cherry Optical, July 30, 2005.

Laser Starlight at Institute of Noetic Sciences, (IONS) Petaluma, CA. Lasers and gongs under the stars, July 22, 2005.

Gongs in the Altar Temple, along with a large format hologram illuminated with solar power. Saturday Night at Harmony Festival, Santa Rosa, June, 2005.

Gong and surdu with Bethany Argile Performance Poetry, Harmony Festival, Santa Rosa, June, 2005.

Drum Circle Facilitator, World Music Festival, djembe and surdu, Nevada City Fairgrounds, July 14 & 15, 2005

2004
Laser Light & Percussion Orchestra DVD, video of performances by Nancy Gorglione, Greg Cherry with Cherry Optical's Sparklelight systems with additional lasers by Northern California laser artists. Video of many events featuring diverse community percussion orchestras. Includes a Channel 50 local television newscast about "The Laser Enlightenment Device," Edited by Louis Bekram, Laughing Cat Films.

Travel Reflection Hologram Composite by Nancy Gorglione, collection Milk River Travel Museum, Canada.

Travel, Winter, 2004, Spring 2005
Gorglione travels to Tibet, Dharamsala and Delhi to study ritual music. While in Dharamsala, a old Tibetan spins a globe and points at West Africa. Spring 2005 Gorglione returns to India and then, Africa: Delhi then train to Drepung Loseling Monastery in Mundgod, Karnataka; then to Africa! Ethiopia; then Accra, Ghana, to study drumming with the Akwaaba Cultural Group, a 22 person drum & dance orchestra. Travel through West Africa's Togo, to Porto Nuevo, Benin; and some travel and a drum lesson in Nigeria. Return from Africa through Amsterdam.

Laser Light & Percussion Orchestra, Epiphany’s Music & Recording, Santa Rosa. Circadian rhythms from some goddess bass players in this community orchestra for all. December 18, 2004.

Laser Lumia from Cherry Optical Holography

2004 Continued:
Hurricane! Laser Percussion Orchestra played heavy bass drums along with the gongs and percussion orchestra, in a Weathermaker’s event for Haiti & Florida during the hurricane season.

Sun into Leo, Laser Light & Percussion Orchestra at Cherry Optical, Sebastopol, July. The Laser Percussion Orchestra featured language of light laser patterns with community drum and percussion orchestra.

Venus Combust, Laser Light & Percussion Orchestra at Cherry Optical, Sebastopol, June. The Laser Percussion Orchestra paisley and complexity laser light patterns with call and response community drum and percussion orchestra.

Coordinator, Multiple Laser Sites for Health & Harmony MBL Saturday Night Techo Tribal Party, June, A huge multi light extravaganza including large Yag lasers and white light lasers, the laser chakra device, video projection, slide dissolves and music by Lost at Last and Mutayter, with a crowd of 3500.

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A Gang of Handout Advertisement Cards for Laser Light & Percussion Orchestra events, 2003

Lasers from Rhythms of Light

2003
Rhythms of Light - 22nd Century Village Music by Laser Light & Percussion Orchestra, Open Space, 400 Morris St. Sebastopol, with entryway of monochromatic light and a dozen holograms, May.

Full Moon Magic Music Laser Light & Percussion Orchestra, at Cherry Optical Holography Ranch, May 15

Sunday Evening Meditative Music, Gorglione on gongs and tubular bells with Kim Atkinson, Mystic Beat Lounge, Odd Fellows Hall, Sebastopol, CA.

Fire & Light at Sebastopol Town Square. Laser Affiliates, Cherry Optical Holography, Laser Productions, local 'Burners and Dan Schweitzer's Ghost.

2001
Fire & Light- Laser Light & Percussion Orchestra participatory community percussion performance surrounded with lasers and special lighting at Sebastopol Town Square-City Center, December. Nancy Gorglione on Gongs Directed Lasers by Greg Cherry with Laser Affiliates, Cherry Optical Holography, Craig Charbboneau and S. Anderson. Light projections with Vince D'Onofrio, Alan Rhody and Leigh Anne. About 40 Drummers, Medicine Drum with Bethany Argile, and Percussion, facilitated by Kim Atkinson with Peter Van Gorter on Digeridoo. Received a proclamation from the Mayor proclaiming the night to be Fire Light Night “forevermore.” Large format holography as part of the scenery. December 2001.

Village Music Drum Facilitator, training with Arthur Hull, Oahu, Hawaii ((Gorglione)

2000
Beginning of Weathermakers Trance Dance Performances Outdoors at locations in Sonoma County. Initial performance at Cherry Optical, Sebastopol, CA.

Outdoor Monochromatic Lighting at the Fortress 2000

New Years Eve at the Fortress 2000, Cherry Optical Holography laser scanning and monochromatic light design for Laser Rays at an archetypal California party in Los Angeles. The producer and owner of the Fortress gave out more then 400 quartets of tickets, flew in the World's best DJ's, and had every type of light device installed in his dance hall ceiling, where the new millenium was danced-in by all.

Late 1990's Sparklelight by Greg Cherry
for Cherry Optical Holography.

Hathor Celebration, Laser Direction and Gongs, Peacock Gulch Country Club, San Rafael, CA The entire Peacock Country Club in Marin County, Ca. was cloaked in 10,000 yards of fabric including screens for multicolored lasers; and decorated to look like an Egyptian Temple for this private party. A costume designer made outfits for the 30 person party staff, which included Gorglione clearing the space between musical acts with the gongs, and Cherry Optical Holography running the lasers.

Gorglione below Takstang Monastery in Bhutan

1995, 1997, 1998, and 1999 Gorglione returns to Himalayas and Surrounding Countries, Travel, work and study of music used in shamanic and Tantric Buddhist rituals and practices, in: Tibet, Nepal, Bhutan, Kashmiri Pakistan, Sikkim, and in India, at Dharamsala, Delhi, Darjeeling, and Mundgod, Karnatika. Trying to achieve true power to uplift...

Light & Sound Invitation in YLEM Newsletter 1996

1996
Light & Sound Neuron Perception: Light Sound Motion Performance at Cherry Optical, Sebastopol, CA Sept. 7. For groups YLEM & LASER during our holography exhibition Resonant Matter. Lasers by Laser Affiliates & Laser Dreams.

Resonant Matter at the California Museum of Art. (See Exhibitions Scroll Box.)

Cherry Optical's Laser Chakra Device.
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Development of Cherry Optical Holography's Laser Chakra Device introduced at the Power of Sound Conference in Hawaii, (conference produced by Joan Ocean & John Float). Gorglione begins ongoing study of Sound Healing, eventually attending workshops and educational programs by many of the originators of technical practices, ancient and modern, of vibratory health. More than one California subculture arises to invigorate medicine. The wondrous combination of studied frequencies of sound, when combined with specific laser light patterns has the immense potential for:

All psyche matter revealed
All vibrational bodies healed

Composite of Cherry Optical Laser Images
on Mervin's Department Store for Celebration of the Human Spirit.

1990 Celebration of the Human Spirit, produced for Sun Gallery, Hayward, Ca. Cherry Optical perched Krypton and Argon water-cooled lasers on a terrace to produce computer animated and holographically diffracted laser patterns and poems on downtown skyscrapers. In conjunction with an exhibit of 20 Cherry Optical holograms. April

Equus Underwater, A Holographic Stageset

Scanning Argon blue lasers fluoresce UV and other pigments on stage backdrop in Equus Underwater

Greg Cherry back stage with the lasers during Equus/Underwater, A Holographic Stageset

1988 Equus/Underwater, laser illumination effects on phosphorescent screens with a holographic stage set composed of 40 Holograms by Nancy Gorglione and Greg Cherry at the Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA May 21 to June 17. Also at Chicago Museum of Holography 1 in 1989. See Exhibitions Scroll Box.

Waveforms for Friends

Waveforms for Friends photo by L. Watts

1985 Waveforms for Friends, An argon laser sky illumination and audience participatory performance at the Marin Center Civic Center lagoon area. Over 200 audience performers moved color coordinated chemical lights to trace the waveforms of the electromagnetic spectrum. Music by Ali Akbar School of Music, San Rafael, Ca. Nancy Gorglione & Greg Cherry, with Steve Anderson, Helen Cummings, Laser Rays and twenty community groups. A Small Project Award of Marin InterArts and the SF Foundation.

Steam Dreams Invitation

1984
Steam Dreams, multi-lasers, music and dance performance during the Democratic National Convention. Civic Center, San Francisco, CA. San Francisco Civic Center reflector ponds and trees became a staging area for multicolored lasers, holograms and other imagery projected through layers of transparent screens strung from the trees. Laser Affiliates and Laser Rays Art Productions with Pat Bishoff. Dance by Devi Baptiste and a seven piece Jazz Orchestra headed by Andrew Hill, with Steve Heckman, Eddie Henderson, Frank Tusa, Fred Zabin and Chris Brown. SF Grants for the Arts Special Project Grant.

This World's Consolation Poem by N. Gorglione
projected on Davies Symphony Hall outback wall.

Laser Paintings, Multi-laser, music and dance performance, parking lot behind Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco, CA Trumpets by Eddie Henderson and Heikki Koskinen, sound sculpture by Chris Brown and David Rosenboom. Laser Affiliates with Nancy Gorglione, Greg Cherry, Steve Anderson, Jim Feroe and Peter Miller.

White Laser at Dusk above San Francisco
outlines the Laserists.

1983
Tidal Wave, A white light laser (the only one at the time, provided by Spectra-Physics, Inc., with Bob Yazell) scanned the grasses while 60 dancers formed a Tidal Wave of moving chemical light in this technological reminder of the forces of nature. Staged outdoors on Corona Heights in San Francisco, a natural rock face high above the City. Laser Affiliates, Director & Producer Nancy Gorglione, laserists Greg Cherry & Steve Anderson, Steve Gill on Chemiluminescent lights, Helen Cummings Dancers including Marin Dance Theater members waving lights; and Peter Miller, Tech Invaluable. Filmed and printed in diverse speeds by Joaquin Wilson/Fine Line Films. A project of SF Grants for the Arts.

No Show, multi-laser and monochromatic projections in a benefit for Mission Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA Nancy Gorglione, Greg Cherry, Steve Anderson and Jos Sances.

Laser Dinner Lighting, laser and monochromatic lights formed a forest on the edge of a city in a ambient performance for the scientists and supporters of Lawrence Hall of Science, Berkeley, CA. Our most erudite audience. Above, Greg Cherry, Nancy Gorglione, and Steve Anderson.

1982
Light Parade, fluid light rained through a dark forest at the end of Golden Gate Park as a hundred paraders moved hand held lights, and played percussion instruments and chimes. Light met lasers and music as paraders left the woods and meadows and flowed over the sand dunes to Golden Gate Beach. Music in the dunes by John Gruntfest Ritual Orchestra. Laser Affiliates & LASER, with Nancy Gorglione, Jeff Milton, Greg Cherry, Steve Anderson, Steve & Yetta Slatter.

LASER AFFILIATES AND L.A.S.E.R.’S SONG OF AGES
LIST OF PARTICIPATING ARTISTS

EVENT MANAGEMENT

PRODUCER/DIRECTOR - NANCY GORGLIONE
THEATRICAL STAGE MANAGER - JEFFREY W. MILTON
THEATRICAL STAGE MANAGER- LASER COORDINATOR - STEVEN E. ANDERSON
HOLOGRAPHIC COORDINATION - VINCE DIBIASE
MUSIC COMPOSITION/COORDINATION - HEIKKI MIKE KOSKINEN
SOUND COORDINATION - MICHAEL BENNETT
DANCE COMPOSITION/COORDINATION YOLANDA BAIN
PRODUCTION ASSISTANCE - SUZANNE LOCKE, HUGH ROBBINS, JOSH DUBERMAN, KRISTEN LEIMKUHLER
CHILDRENS MATINEE COORDINATION - DENI WELCH

ARTISTS AND AFFILIATIONS

LIGHTING

LASERS/COMPUTER SCANNING STEVE ANDERSON, SONOMA STATE PHYSICS DEPT.
GREGORY CHERRY. HEWLETT PACKARD, INC.
AL HILL, LASERSCAPES/BERKELEY
RON HIPSCHMAN, LASER IMAGES, S.F. STATE UNIV. PHYSICS DEPT. JORDAN HUBBARD
CHARLES HEIN, PACIFIC TELEPHONE
HUGH ROBBINS, MCCUNE SOUND
CRAIG LINVILLE, LASER ARTS

DICHROIC/THEATER LIGHTS
NANCY GORGLIONE, SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIV. PHYSICS DEPT.
DAVID JUAREZ, S.F. STATE THEATER ARTS
PAMELA LEWIS, S.F. STATE THEATER ARTS
LORI LUBESKI, S.F. STATE CREATIVE WRITING DEPT.
ROBERT W. SELF, S.F. STATE UNIV.STAGE THEATER ARTS
MICHAEL SINK - IN-HOUSE MANAGER

SLIDE DISSOLVES
RON HALBERT - DISSOLVE PROGRAMMING. MCCUNE SOUND
SLIDE COLOR IMAGE DIRECTOR- NANCY GORGLIONE
MAGGIE ROECKER, OMEGATRON LIGHTING
DARREN G. CARVER
PALOMA
JIM ZAMPATHAS (FILM SCREEN)
STUART MARCUS

SLIDE IMAGES
STEVE ANDERSON, LOUIS BRILL, DARREN G,. CARVER, LLOYD CROSS, VINCE DIBIASE, GLORIA DIBIASE, NANCY GORGLIONE, BILL KNOWLAND, STUART MARCUS, JEFFREY W. MILTON, NASA/AMES RESEARCH, PHYSICIANS AGAINST NUCLEAR WAR, HUGH ROBBINS, MAGGIE ROECKER, FRED UNTERSEHER, DENI WELCH, MATT WOOD, JIM ZAMPATHAS

FILM
BILL KNOWLAND - EDITING AND PHOTOGRAPHY, THE INFINITE FORUM
JIM ZAMPATHAS
DENI WELCH - PROJECTIONIST

SPECIAL LIGHTING EFFECTS
LOUIS BRILL - CRYSTALMATION, THEATER OF PERFORMING LIGHTS NANCY GORGLIONE-DICHROIC LIGHTING
MAGGIE ROECKER -OMEGATRON LIGHTING
DORA - OMEGATRON DISCS

CHEMILUMINESCENT LIGHTS STEVE. K. GILL - RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS, LIQUID LIGHT LABORATORIES DAVID ABERCROMBIE, U.C. BERKELEY CHEMISTRY DEPT. JOSH DUBERMAN, CHEVRON Research CORP.

VIDEO
DWIGHT DOLLIVER, SYNERGETIC IMAGES
MITZI HAWXWELL

HOLOGRAPHIC ENVIRONMENT
VINCE DIBIASE - COORDINATOR, CENTER FOR HOLOGRAPHY
HOLOGRAPHIC ARTISTS: STEVE ANDERSON, DR. STEPHEN BENTON, RUDIE BERKHOUT, KENT CAROLL, SHERWIN CHEW, GREGORY CHERRY, PETER CLAUDIUS, KEN COOPERMAN, GLORIA DIBIASE, VINCENT DIBIASE, JUDY EISEN, JAMES FEROE, BRUCE GOLDBERG, NANCY GORGLIONE, RANDY JAMES, JOHN KAUFMAN, SHARON MCCORMICK, STEVE MCGREW, PETER MILLER, JEFFREY W. MILTON, LON MOORE, SAME MOREE, RUBIN NUNEZ, STEVE PROVINCE, VIC RICE, BOB SCHLESINGER, DAN SCHWEITZER, STEVE SLATER, DEBRA SHORT, IRA SLOBODIEN, FRED UNTERSEHER, GARY ZELLERBACH, S.F. STATE UNIV. PHYSICS’ DEPARTMENT -HOLOGRAPHY STUDENTS (LIST INCLUDES PIECES FROM THE COLLECTION OF HOLOS GALLERY, S.F.

MUSIC/THE LASER ORCHESTRA
MUSIC COMPOSED AND ARRANGED BY HEIKKI MIKE KOSKINEN - TRUMPET
CHRIS BROWN - ACOUSTICAL AND ELECTRICAL SOUND SCULPTURE LARRY HANCOCK - DRUMS
GLEN CHRONKHITE - PERCUSSION
STEVE HECKMAN, FLUTE AND SAXOPHONE
MARK LITTLE, PIANO
JEFF PITTSON, SYNTHESIZER
RENE ROBERGE - PETAL HARP
HANS VAN DE GEYN - BASS
FRED ZABIN - BASS
CHILDREN’S TAPE- NEW TRADITIONS SCHOOL

AUDIO
JOHN BARSOTTI, BROADCAST COMUNICATIONS ARTS FACULTY DEPT., S.F. STATE UNIV.
MICHAEL BENNETT
CURTIS SPANGLER
S.F. STATE BROADCASTING COMMUNICATIONS ARTS’ STUDENTS: MICHAEL BENEDETTI, ROBIN BURNS, FRIDAY FORSTHOFF, MIKE JACKSON, GILBERT JOHNSON, JACK MILLPOINTER, MICHAEL VAN METRE, KEVIN WHITE, SUSAN WILSON.

DANCE/THE ELECTRON DANCERS
YOLANDA BAIN
REBECCA J. KAYNOR
DARYL LLOYD
VICTOR SCHNEIDER
MARCI YELLIN

SECURITY DAVID DRABBLE, SUZANNE LOCKE, ANNE HACKETT, DAVE ABERCROMBIE

SPONSORED ON SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY CAMPUS BY DR. GERALD FISHER AND DR. J. BERKE, PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY DEPT.

PRODUCTION FUNDED IN PART BY GRANTS FROM THE N.E.A, THE S.F. HOTEL TAX FUND (S.F. GRANTS FOR THE ARTS) TERRY MILTON AND ASSOCIATES, INC.; AND THE CHEVRON EMPLOYEES INVOLVEMENT FUND. THANKS FOR CORPORATE IN-KIND AID FROM: AMERICAN CYANAMID, COHERENT, INC.; GENERAL-SCANNIING, INC.; LASER IMAGES, INC.; LASER IMPRESSIONS, INC.; MCCUNE AUDIO-VISUAL; SPECTRA-PHYSICS, INC.; SPRAGUE CAPACITOR CO.; FAFNIR BEARINGS DIVISION OF TEXTRON; ANALOG DEVICES; EXAR INTEGRATED SYSTEMS, INC.; AND INTEL CORP

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Laser Art: The Newest Frontier in Techo-Aesthetics by Walter Blum, in anticipation of Laser Affiliates' Song of Ages. San Francisco Chronicle Sunday Magazine 1981.

1981 Song of Ages, Story of Maya produced and Directed by Nancy Gorglione. Over 50 artists combined lasers and light effects, video projection, film and dance in this performance series at McKenna Theater at San Francisco State University, where Gorglione was Adjunct Professor of Holography in the Physics Department. Song of Ages, Story of Maya, featured a ten piece Jazz Orchestra lead by Heikki Koskinen playing for dancers wearing multicolored chemical lights as they danced the cycles of the day, from Dawn Birth through Decadance and Death to Dawn. It took Gorglione all year to produce and direct this December series of performances, with funding from NEA; SF Grants for the Arts; family, friends, etc. Holographic Environment with 35 pieces by diverse holographers in the lobby. A pivotal performance series which introduced the laser and holography in performance arts.

Tunnel Dance Composite Overview, from Archetypes in Holography: If You Can See It, Its Not There.

1980
Tunnel Dance Composite Overview, a partial page from Archetypes in Holography::"If You Can See It, Its Not There" by Nancy Gorglione. (2017) This book contains hundreds of laser art, scanning and performance images from the events listed here.

Tunnel Dance, laser, chemical light, music and dance performance at Judah Tunnel, Ocean Beach, San Francisco, CA. Music for wind harp, horn and percussion including musicians Rod Marymore, David Schrader and others, reverberated with light in the long N. Judah Ocean Beach Tunnel. Laser Affiliates' Lights by The Shrieker, Jeff Milton, Steve Anderson, Lewis Brill and including Dance with members of magical Anna Helprin’s Dancer’s Workshop in SF, including Mitsuko Mitsueda and Troupe. The event that eventually led to a small grant to partially produce Lightscapes, Photography & the Laser.

1978
Lights Project, KYA Radio sponsored light show on Twin Peaks, CA, Gorglione was Laser Site Coordinator for Scott Redmond; Large Argon Laser Scanning by Norman Ballard. Dichroic filtered Kleig Lights beamed across the Bay, synchronized with KYA. Radio Station broadcasted music. Darwin and Roger Greene on Diesel Generator.

1976
US Cafe Series, multi-laser, music and dance performances, Michael Kan with a HeCad Blue Laser; friends from the Multiplex Co. lending additional lasers and holograms. Dance by Patti Poole and Patti Poe. Music by Steve Garner and Don Ray for the first performance. Second performance music by John Gruntfest with The Ritual Orchestra, both at Curtis Spengler's US Cafe on Haight St. near Ashbury, S.F., CA. 1976

1974
Party at the Multiplex Company: Light and Sound Jam, co-produced by Nancy Gorglione - Laser Affiliates and the Multiplex Company. (Poster above)

Gorglione - Jazz study at the Haight Ashbury Arts Workshop with Fred Zabin, Larry Hancock and others.

From large theater venues to skyscrapers to mountain tops and windswept sand dune beaches
for music festivals
or thematic rituals,
we were there with the most colorful lasers we could find.

ECHO (Ecology)
BEST MUSE EVER
Look for her next book on the Nez Perce.