Ether Ship (originally known as The Electric Symphony until 1976) is a pionneer sonic xenolinguisitcs performance art group created in 1972 in Los Angeles by Willard van de Bogart and Lemon DeGeorge.
There they conducted various experiments in collaboration with other artists and media visionaries and worked alongside Nam June Paik, Allan Kaprow, Morton Subotnick, Gene Youngblood, Serge Tcherepnin, Sharon Grace, Naut Humon, et al. [citation needed] Their first public performance (with Walter Steding) was in 1972 at the 9th Annual Avant Garde Festival of New York created by Charlotte Moorman.
[1] Ether Ship protocols where deeply influenced by Willard van de Bogart works he done with the philosopher Oliver L. Reiser[2] and sculptor Nicolas Schöffer.
[3] Jacques Vallée, who attended one of their 1978 performances, wrote in his book, Forbidden Science - Volume Two, that Willard van De Bogart was "visualized higher entities while playing".
The musicians who have been part of Ether Ship in the 70' period are Liz Bryant, Lemon DeGeorge, Will Jackson, Dave Korman, Selwyn Lissack, Larry Lauterborn, Bob McNulty, Tom McVeety, Henry Niese, Gary Schroder, Walter Steding, Willard van de Bogart, Z'ev.