The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane – Om Rama – VR180

This VR180 video was shot at the Red Bull Music Academy Festival in Los Angeles, CA. The idea to shoot the performance in immersive stereoscopic video came to be as a result of a previous collaboration between Marlon Fuentes of Fuentes Creativas and Kyle Midgley of Red Bull Media House. The two had just finished a project in Trinidad and Tobago in 360VR and now with prototype cameras made of two Izugar cameras and a dongle connecting them, they decided to test the equipment on such a special occasion. Here’s more about the artist…

Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda was an American jazz pianist, organist, harpist, singer, composer and the wife of John Coltrane, the most venerated and influential saxophonist in the history of jazz. Alice’s recording catalog dates back to 1957, and during the last decade of her career – starting in the mid-’80s – she self-released four brilliant cassette albums. They contained a music she invented, inspired by the gospel music of the Detroit churches she grew up in, mixed together with the Indian devotional music of her religious practice. Ten years after Alice’s passing, in what would have been her 80th year, we celebrate her music and spirit. In collaboration with Michelle Coltrane and New York label Luaka Bop, Red Bull Music Academy presents an evening inspired by the Sunday ceremonies Alice held at her Sai Anantam Ashram in California with performances by Flying Lotus, Marylin McLeod, Brandee Younger, Georgia Anne Muldrow, Miguel Atwood-Ferguson String Ensemble and The Sai Anantam Ashram Singers.