Hookah: Live @ Cafe NELA 6 November 2015 v4 © 2016 Victor Acevedo Music © 2015 Hookah This is the 4th published version of this video. It was fine tuned and remastered by the director Victor Acevedo for exhibition at Los Angeles Center for Digital Art (LACDA) December 08, 2016 - December 31, 2016. Acevedo has said he considers this the definitive version. Hookah is a psychedelic band from Los Angeles formed in 2004. Currently, it consists of members: Russell Chaput- guitar, tape loop effects (Anemone, Skylarks) Dave Foster-Theremin, guitar (Extra Fancy, Nudist Priest, Charmkin Rebellion, Clark, Sweet and Cruel) John Mortl-synthesizers (Math Band, Clark) Warde Randall-synthesizers ( Cat Museum, Math Band, Clark, Sweet and Cruel) Hookah sees its enigmatic role in modern culture as a way to revisit and re-imagine ritual through improvisational sonic/visual performances. This Visual Music work features a 3-minute excerpt of Hookah’s live improvisational performance on the night of November 6, 2015. It becomes the soundtrack and platform for an abstract and hallucinogenic audio-visual dream-scape. Hookah had invited him to augment their musical explorations with real-time video projections behind the band. Building on the AV recordings made at the gig, Acevedo later produced this stand-alone music video. Victor: I first met the founding members of Hookah, Warde Randall and Jon Mortl about 30 years ago. This was sometime before we collaborated on our first live audio-visual [AV] public performance as part of their two-person art gallery exhibition at California State University, Los Angeles on September 30, 1987. At that time their musical group was called Math Band.