History of Raves and Light Shows

1. I CAN SEE THE LIGHT!
History of Raves and Light Shows

2. RAVES
 Rave, rave dance, and rave party are
parties that originated mostly from acid
house parties, which featured fast-
paced electronic music and light shows.
 Originating from London in the
1950’s, “Rave” was a term used to
describe “Wild Bohemian Parties”.
 While usually most raves are held
“underground” some are held in public
places, such as Australia's Olympic
Arena because of its fast rising
involvement.

3. USES FOR LIGHTSHOWS IN HISTORY
 The great magician David
Copperfield used the idea of lights at
your fingertips to create one of his
widely know tricks, D’Lites. A small
light hidden away in a false thumb
tip, he could produce what seemed
to be a bright red light that would
travel between his hands, through
his ears, and out of his mouth.

4. DIFFERENT TYPES OF LIGHTSHOWS
 Many different types of light shows are incorporated
into the rave scene to facilitate everyone and their
idea of having fun.
 Orbits
 Hooping
 Glow sticking
 Gloving
 Poi (Fire Dancing)

5. ORBITS
Attached to a nylon string on
both sides, when wound up
and pulled taught, the four leds
Spin making fantastic shapes
that are always eye pleasing.

6. HOOPING
Hooping is exactly what it
sounds like, a hula-hoop filled
with colorful leds that will put
anyone in a trance.

7. GLOW STICKING
Glow sticking is simply taking any glow stick, tying
a string to and dancing to the beat of the music
swinging them around your arms and around your
body.
Some companies offer long lasting glow sticks that
are powered by leds and flashing lights but most
performers uses your standard one time use glow
sticks.

8. GLOVING
Gloving can be best described as
fingertip leds placed inside of
cotton gloves using different
techniques such as tutting and
finger rolls to producing a mind-
numbing effect.

9. Fire Poi is actually an ancient art of
dance that was pulled into the rave
scene.
A ball of cotton soaked in accelerant
and hung by string or twine swung
around your entire body creating
shapes and traceable paths.
POI OR FIRE DANCING

10. MASKS AND APPAREL
When attending a rave, you will seeing nothing but the unusual. From
mouse heads to gas masks, to crazy outfits and glowing shoe laces
people use the raving experience to express a certain side of
themselves that would normally go unnoticed.

11. DRUGS
 Now, it is a common myth that everyone
who attends raves, whether they be
underground or public does some type of
Hallucinogenic or other Psychedelic drug.
 LSD (acid)
 Ecstasy (rolls)
 MDMA (Molly)
 Dimethyltryptamine (DMT)
 Yes these types of drugs are usually very
common and accessible at these kinds of
functions, but it is not in everyone’s
interest to participate it the use.
 Many people like providing light shows to
people who are “tripping” or “rolling” to
give them a full body experience of the
drug.

12. MANUFACTURES OF LIGHT SHOW APPAREL
 EmazingLights.com is the world’s leading supplier
for anything “Rave”.
 There are other companies that produce cheap
knock off gloves and such that are usually sold at
the door at the Merch table. But none that even
come close to comparing to the quality of Emazing
Lights products.

13. DIFFERENT TYPES OF LED PATTERNS FOR YOUR GLOVE
SETS AND ORBIT SETS
 Strobe -
... There are single color strobes
... 3 color strobes
... 7 color strobes
 Ribbon - these are bulbs like dashes that create a ribbon effect.
... There are no single color ribbons as these would be considered solid
... 3 color
... 7 color
 Dash - longer streaks of colors between the spaces
 Fade - These will fade from a solid color, to a dash, to a dot then change colors.
 Solid... repeat with new colors
 Rainbow/ Slow Rainbow - 7 color faders
 I-Morph - 7 color strobe/ribbon

14. SPONSORSHIPS
 Emazing Lights is constantly sponsoring different
teams of glovers and rave enthusiasts to get their
products out into the public. Some popular glovers
include..
 AYO?
 Sharky
 Team [E]
 Gummy
 Blitzen
 And MANY MANY MORE!