Sounds Like A Nice Time announces Painting With Light

Sounds Like a Nice Time invite you to explore the visualisation of sound as it manifests in Sydney's 2017 contemporary music scene, as part of the Vivid X|Celerate program in partnership with City of Sydney for Vivid Sydney.

For one night only, Sydney light and set designers Underground Arts will 'paint' an entire venue, using light as their brushes.

The Imperial Hotel's basement and upstairs spaces will undergo a complete tranformation, as Underground Arts turn the familiar into the unfamiliar, conjuring up an immersive, visual feast for the senses. Painting With Light will showcase captivating venue-design that incorporates state-of-the-art-technology; including powerful projection mapping, head-turning holograms, UV/blacklight work, infinity boxes, atmospheric fog effects and roaming performers. Underground Arts will playfully highlight, deconstruct, and recontextualise both rooms' usual geometry; working their unique brand of aesthetic-driven magic on the dual spaces.

Hitting the stage for the performance component of Painting With Light will be a collection of five early-career artists from Sydney's creative industries, known for pushing the boundaries of their practice. Expect dynamic, textured, and powerful live music sets, alongside brilliant screen work involving motion graphics, animation, and video.

Sounds Like a Nice Time's Steven Sewell, who curated Painting With Light, says it's an exciting project for his team to have pulled together: "It's awesome to be working with Underground Arts on this project, who are the visual architects leading the event's projection elements. It will be an evening where everyone can dance to great sets from acts like Inner West legends Cosmo's Midnight, while also getting to see some of the mind-blowing work of awesome video artists."