Light installations helped transform an abandoned Houston post office last weekend Videos below include images with strobes and flashing lights.
If you were looking for eye candy at the Day for Night festival in Houston last weekend, they weren?t hard to find. At the two-day music and art experience, held inside and around the blocky, abandoned 1.5 million-square-foot Barbara Jordan Post Office near downtown, the 20,000-strong crowd represented the eclectic, uniformly excellent music lineup organizers had created.
The genre mishmash hopped from the powerful, political hip-hop of Run the Jewels to Kamasi Washington?s space jazz to an array of DJs, indie rock acts, and two of electronic music?s most enigmatic figures: Bjork (subject of a massive virtual reality display) and Aphex Twin (performing in the United States for the first time in eight years). During the course of the weekend-long party, just in its second year, I saw EDM fans providing DIY light shows and costumed characters aplenty. A dude from Austin drinking craft beer and dressed as a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle offered great directions.
Ismael Quintanilla
?Musica Universalis,? a site-specific art piece by United Visual Artists

But for an hour on Sunday afternoon, I was happy to ignore the commotion, and sat transfixed by the waxing and waning of a miniature solar system. I was inside ?Musica Universalis,? a massive site-specific display created by London-based collective Unit...