Ascending Wave

Crystal Ascending Wave’s Modulation Del Sol is a tape that eluded the 200,000 attendees at Steve Wozniak’s 1982 Us Festival in San Bernardino. Woz’s three-day, twelve million dollar extravaganza featured video games, computers, robots, and lasers alongside Tom Petty, Pat Benatar, Fleetwood Mac, The Police, The Kinks, The Ramones, and The Grateful Dead. A domed shaped theater housed a proto-IMAX program called Journey To The Central Sun, with visuals by Emile Canning and music by Mark Josephson and Ken Stover. Think high energy prog-fusion with a new age slant. Cinematic and unabashedly affirmative—music for beating the odds and winning at life. A barely-distributed tape preserved the audio program and featured cover art by a firm fresh off designing the MTV logo. Find more on the festival here.