''Infrared Sightings'' is a video by the Grateful Dead, consisting of computer animation and other imagery set to music from their album '' Infrared Roses''. It was released on VHS video tape and on laserdisc in 1992, and is 18 minutes long. ''Infrared Roses'' is known to fans as "the all Drums and Space album". Produced by Grateful Dead sound designer Bob Bralove, it contains free form

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music recorded live at a number of different Dead concerts. The visuals for ''Infrared Sightings'' combine computer generated images, many of them abstract, with found footage that has been altered or edited in various ways. The video is therefore somewhat reminiscent of the light shows that were projected on large screens at many Grateful Dead concerts.

Track listing

* intro – FreeQuency Beach * part 1 – Underwatermelons (music: "Riverside Rhapsody") * part 2 – Synchronations (music: "Post-Modern Highrise Table Top Stomp") * part 3 – Yes I Kandinsky (music: "Infrared Roses")

Credits

Musicians

* Jerry Garcia –

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* Mickey Hart – drums,

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Bill Kreutzmann William Kreutzmann Jr. ( ; born May 7, 1946) is an American drummer and founding member of the rock band Grateful Dead. He played with the band for its entire thirty-year career, usually alongside fellow drummer Mickey Hart, and has continued to ...

– drums, percussion * Phil Lesh – bass *

Brent Mydland Brent Mydland (October 21, 1952 – July 26, 1990) was an American keyboardist and singer. He was a member of the rock band The Grateful Dead from 1979 to 1990, a longer tenure than any other keyboardist in the band. Growing up in Concord ...

– keyboards * Bob Weir – guitar

With

* Bob Bralove * Willie Green III

Production

* Len Dell'Amico, Larry Lachman – directors, producers * Fritz Perlberg – executive producer * Bob Bralove – music producer * Maury Rosenfeld — spatio-temporal opto-orchestrator * Fred Raimondi – visual effects and creative entity * Sam Hamann – electronic paintmeister * David Tristram – electropaint graphics programmer/artist * Steve Burr, "Mad" Johnny Modell – intro sound design * Quency – special animated appearance

References

*
''Infrared Sightings''
at the Grateful Dead Family Database
''Infrared Sightings''
at LaserDisc Database * Scott, John W; Dolgushkin, Mike; Nixon, Stu. ''DeadBase XI: The Complete Guide to Grateful Dead Song Lists'', 1999, DeadBase, , p. 122

External links

{{Grateful Dead Grateful Dead Concert films 1992 films 1990s English-language films