Paradise II - Dream Driver

For the album release of Dream Driver, Bozeman transformed the Clocktower Gallery into an immersive listening environment where audiences experienced the full album surrounded by shifting walls of light and infinite visual recursion. Using no prerecorded footage, the performance generated all imagery live through video feedback. Ten projectors filled the room with cascading loops as three midi-controlled PTZ cameras captured the space and projected it back onto itself. Plants, people, and glowing boxes overlapped and recurred into infinity.

Bozeman and his collaborators operated the visual system in real time, controlling the PTZ camera positions with custom software and midi keyboards while manipulating colors and feed mixes through vintage video equipment. Twelve DMX-driven light boxes, each topped with a living plant, pulsed in rhythm with the music, their warm glow punctuating the projected imagery that wrapped around the gallery's walls.

The album itself, recorded as "music to listen to while taking different forms of transportation," provided the sonic foundation for this environment where organic and mechanical time coexisted. Plants grew imperceptibly while electronic pulses flickered rapidly; audience members found themselves projected back into the space they occupied, their presence layered and multiplied. Collaborators: John Michael Boling, John Crowe, William Kennedy, Paul Slocum.