For more than twenty years, the famous electronic DJ known as Tiesto, who grew up as Tijs Michiel Verwest of the Netherlands, has been spinning dance music in style.
He has certainly perfected the art of electronics as his concert in Bucharest, Romania on March 21, 2009, indicates.
Tiesto literally lit up Sala Polivalenta, the hall that thousands of devoted Tiesto fans filled.
There are clearly two elements to a Tiesto concert.
One is the lighting.
At the March 2009 Bucharest venue, the lighting was especially magnificent.
During parts of the concert, lights seem to rain down on the crowd, making audience members feel like the light is coming down to them to reach out and touch.
Then there are color themes that appear to transport the viewer to another planet.
For example, the blue light show is amazing, filling up the entire hall from all directions.
But just as you think that was special, the green light show begins and you are overwhelmed in a good sense.
The lights mimic the deep throbbing beats of the music and come from everywhere in the hall.
Almost no space is left untouched by what seems like millions of beams of light.
The DJ booth is also very key to the show.
Tiesto is surrounded by video panels that light up with intriguing geometrical designs.
There are panels behind him as well that flash in sync with the DJ panels.
The lighting throughout the concert is well choreographed both to the music and to an individual's need for change.
There are times when the hall is completely black, which only serves to emphasize the upcoming light show even more.
Besides manic light beams, there are times when the video panels display bright white waves, or the Tiesto insignia with the bird in the circle.
These type of light displays change up the pace and provide a needed break to the visual stimulation.
An interesting part to the light show is that literally the audience participates in it.
As people in the crowd put their hands up in the air, they can deflect the light beams.
It is another way that electronics can reach out to the audience.
The hall filled to capacity also lends itself to audience delight.
Everyone is fist pumping or waving their arms pretty much the entire time.
Dancing and shouting are 100% the norm at a Tiesto concert.
Finally, the music itself is all encompassing.
The songs last anywhere from six to ten minutes each, providing audience members with more for their buck compared to regular acoustic artists who play a song for three minutes and often need one or two breaks during the performance.
My inexperienced ear can not quite tell the techniques Tiesto uses to create his sounds, but there appears to be synthesized tunes at the very least, where sounds are amplified, filtered and mixed.
One can't help but take notice of the fluid, psychological listening experience.
Some songs have lots of percussion sounds, while at other times there are strings, horns and orchestra-sounding motifs as well.
If one could list any negative aspects, it might be that when songs include vocals, you can't distinguish the words clearly.
I think this is because the background melodies are so big and amplified.
However, the millions of Tiesto fans world-wide don't seem to mind!