![]() ![]() It’s called, quite simply, Jamiroquai Game. It is this that you must attempt to replicate in the videogame tribute to the music video. He’s beyond mere dancing skill, his body always escaping being crushed or moving in inhuman ways as if he were assisted by cybernetic enhancements. It all gives the impression that Jay Kay has a mechanical prowess. The way that Jay Kay tip-toes down a closing aisle between wall and sofa how he steps at the same pace as the set so it appears that he’s moving nowhere and how he rises from sitting to standing while narrowly avoiding a collision with the wall. What makes the “Virtual Insanity” music video impressive even today is its choreography, and not its practical effects, although they are all part of it. But what would be lost in such a case would be the performance in front of the camera. It would no doubt be solved easily these days with modern computer technology. The method itself is very practical then. The camera was attached to one of the walls so that when the set was moved around it would appear that only the objects inside the set, and that were separate from it, were moving-that included Jay Kay and the black sofas. As revealed in an interview with the video’s director Jonathan Glazer, the whole set was a self-contained unit on wheels that was built on a floor with no detail. If it were, that would prove rather ironic considering that the song is about the potential harmful effects of our obsession with technology (and that’s back in 1996!). ![]() And it’s not one of Jay Kay’s admittedly skillful dance moves no one can do the impossible. Here, though, Jay Kay isn’t moving his feet at all, yet he moves across the floor. It’s as if he’s found a way to outdo Michael Jackson’s moonwalk, which is itself a sort of illusion performed by gliding the feet in a certain way so that it appears as a backwards walking motion-in practice, it is. This is the trick that had my school friends and I so fascinated. Sometimes he moves while stood completely still. Jay Kay, the band’s singer, seems to glide across the grey floor of the set as he sings and dances. The wonderful jazz / R&B singer Clif Payne will also be our very special Guest Artist for these concerts.If you’re not familiar with the 1996 pop-soul record or its video, you should remedy that right now. Here is a YouTube playlist of some of the concert songs: "Virtual Insanity" by Jamiroquai (classic jazz-funk from the British band about an increasingly dystopian, technology-dependent society) "Watch Them Burn" by Chris Singleton (a raw, country song in reaction to the Las Vegas shootings) "Change" by Christina Aguilera (lyrical, moving song written in the aftermath of the Orlando Pulse nightclub shootings in 2016) "We Shall Walk in the Valley of Peace" by Moses Hogan (an amazing setting of an African-American spiritual) "Water Guns" by Todrick Hall (a hard-hitting song about gun violence) "Remember Me" from the movie Coco (a beautiful song from this touching movie) "Lacrimosa / Take My Life" by Isaac Cates (an incredible, original Gospel mashup of the Lacrymosa movement from the Mozart Requiem) "Only in Sleep" by Eriks Esenvalds (a gorgeous piece reflecting on idyllic childhood memories) ![]() "Let My Love Be Heard" by Jake Runestead (a modern choral classic stunning in its emotional impact with a direct connection to the Paris 2015 Bataclan shootings) Ten years after the horrific mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012, we honor the victims of the growing number of mass shootings through the unique emotional power of music. The powerful music in the concert explores a broad range of complex emotions, including grief, loss, anger, and healing. "Virtual Insanity: Mass Shootings & Madness of the Modern World" is a special concert by AfterGlow Chorus in Oakland, CA honoring the victims of mass shootings through the unique emotional power of music. ![]()
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