Altered States 19661999

In four movements the Altered States video starts with vintage rock from Jefferson Airplane set to McKays early 60s pulsating sensory overload style The 70s evolve into a tweaky sound track by Knox Bronson electronic culture mastermind with scenes from McKays world travels in a highly abstracted form The 80s movement travels into pure geometric and color abstractions with an uplifting electronicacoustic soundtrack by Dean Evenson McKays 90s movement goes deep into fantastic liquid color landscapes with a dark electronic music voyage crafted in collaboration with McKay by Greg Jalbert This video captures McKays main installation piece at a retrospective of four decades of his work at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art FebruaryMay 1999