If you've been to Wavelength, you've also been to a General Chaos show, the light show wizard who makes you feel like you've eaten the brownie. Now you will have the opportunity to bring his show into your home. Or, if you're a smart band with your own projector and a laptop, to your gig!

Yes, a debut of sorts occurs this Tuesday March 8 at 8pm at Supermarket, at fellow class of Y2K music + art series', THE AMBiENT PING, of the good General's new DVD. He's been referring to it as "the thing". Under the guise of General Chaos, Steve Lindsey, occasionally tag-teaming with his mate Eric, has added Wavelength's psych swirl to the light show of more than 1500 bands since taking his magical analog twirling light machines to live shows, and subconsciously I think this reassuring backdrop of effervescence has added a full letter grade to my Toronto music experience. He makes his own gels out of a variety of materials, changes bubbles into electricity, playing with wavelengths, a perfect compliment to the signal-to-noise of the aural element of the show. Bands somehow sound better when they're lit better. In a world of disappointing LED light grids (and LED christmas tree lights!) in dim lifeless spaces, General Chaos has been providing the antidote all along, in a soulless over-digitized world, the tactile reassurance of building a light show out of tools is more important today than it ever has been. He's made fertile soil where bands with a visual art element like the Polydactyl Hearts Collective can thrive.

I encourage anybody who has been blown away by General Chaos' live work to come to the unveiling on Tuesday, he could use some feedback, and you could use a dose of chaos.

Tuesday March 8, 8PM, at THE AMBiENT PING, inside Supermarket, 268 Augusta Ave. $6