Scaryoke: Escape to Bitch Mountain was staged on Halloween 2009 at Monkeytown in Williamsburg, marking the one-year anniversary of The New Sound Karaoke. Designed as an expanded cinema masquerade ball, the event surrounded the audience with four-channel projections in Monkeytown’s sunken cube theater. The centerpiece video told the story of Waterfall and Service losing their “baby,” Baby New Sound — a melodramatic horror-tinged chapter filmed in Hawley, PA, and set to a rewritten mash-up of The Knife’s Heartbeats and Michael Jackson’s You Are Not Alone.
Alongside the premiere, Black Waterfall and Bobby Service hosted a scream-a-long bash with wall-to-wall karaoke projections, live performances by Brooklyn underground artists, and an interactive installation that instantly placed guests into their own terrifying karaoke videos.
2009 was still in the era of scarily terrible low-light photography.
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