The Setup:
Saturday, the 23rd of September, 2006 was the date of Auditory Influx, the third party thrown by the residents of my Allston abode. The party coincided with our newest roommate's birthday, as well as the beginning of fall, and we wanted to bring the crowd a little something special to make up for a less than spectacular event that preceded this one. Two days were spent prepping the house for the party, from top to bottom cleaning and rearranging to meticulously taping real leaves to the walls around our front door.
The birthday girl in her birthday outfit
Unpaid help from NYC
The workers contemplate a strike
Akiva helps Prism Lighting set up
The Music:
All the DJs rocked it, Akiva, Ekko, Jeremy, Dev/Null, TechnoBitch, and DJ C upstairs, as well as JD Disclexic, Dru Styles, Ikari, Skunk, and theSunsetsDown downstairs.
Akiva
Ekko
Jeremy
Dev/Null
TechnoBitch
DJ C
JD Disclexic
Dru Styles
Ikari
Skunk
theSunsetsDown
The Visuals:
Lighting on the second floor was provided by Prism Lighting, and Alison brought a projector for VJ Bonk to display visuals over the first floor walls. Shawn even got down on the visuals for a while. And the fire...We had two guests spinning fire in the backyard for a short while, adding some oohs and ahhs from the crowd and just one more addition to an already packed night.
Steve, Prism Lighting, getting ready for the night
VJ Bonk shows off his visual mixing skills
Shawn on the video mixer
Visuals by Bonk
More visuals by Bonk
Lighting by Prism Lighting
The Crowd:
Guests started arriving around 10, greeted by Biplaw, our doorman for the night. Beirut was set up in the kitchen and the party started filling up. By midnight we had sixty to eighty people, a number which would remain constant for most of the night. It was just the right number of people to keep the dancefloors filled and various concentrations of group chatter in kitchens, bedrooms, the back stairs and of course, the roof. The roof also happened to be one of the better vantage points to view the fire poi in the backyard.
No, I swear, I'm one of the djs
The kitchen is the home of quality discourse
Jes and Russ relax on the roof
Nora and Jeremy conversate on the back porch
The Medford crew
A peek into the madness
Is this a nightclub?
The crowd enjoying the music
Dancers!
Bonk gets out on the dancefloor
The End:
The music upstairs wound down around 4:30 am, while downstairs the beats flowed til at least 6 am. With the morning sun starting to peek from behind the clouds, I cooked breakfast for the few remaining guests and the sleep bug began to bite us all. Steve, the lighting guy, woke up and we broke down his equipment and thanked him again for his services. So closed Auditory Influx, good beats, great vibes, and no hassles. Thanks to everyone who came out, performed, and helped us bring another night of music and dancing to the city of Boston.
The Strangeness:
Starr and Shawn discuss how shit gets done
Alison brought the projector, and her drunk Brit persona
Sage, the fire spinner, espouses everyone's secret desires
Passed out! Before Midnight!
Even the lighting guy had to sleep sometime
The Apt. 2 Crew hamming it up
The Videos:
Here are a few videos from the night. The first is of some dancers in the crowd, the second is a 360 degree shot of the lighting and crowd in the second floor living room, the third is fire spinners in the backyard.
