Inaugural edition
Day for Night 2015
2015-12-19 to 2015-12-20 at Silver Street Studios and surrounding blocks, Houston. 60 performers are recorded from the sources listed at the foot of this page.
Dates
2015-12-19 – 2015-12-20
Days
2
Venue
Silver Street Studios and surrounding blocks
Performers recorded
60
Record
What happened
- Staged across a roughly six-block area around Silver Street Studios, a 20,000-square-foot event space.
- Produced by Free Press Houston with the design studio Work-Order.
Bill
Lineup
Reproduced as published. Lists are present in the page source whether or not they are expanded.
Top of the bill: Kendrick Lamar, New Order, Philip Glass Ensemble, Janelle Monáe, Flying Lotus.
Music43 listed
- Kendrick Lamar
- New Order
- Philip Glass Ensemble
- Dillon Francis
- Janelle Monáe
- Flying Lotus
- Death Grips
- Madeon
- Nicolas Jaar
- Psychic TV
- CocoRosie
- Elliphant
- Battles
- Dan Deacon
- Com Truise
- Cazwell
- Amanda Lepore
- Holly Herndon
- Julien Bayle
- Indian Jewelry
- U.S. Girls
- Jonté Moaning
- Prince Rama
- DERU
- Matt Thibideau
- Roman GianArthur
- Richard Ramirez
- Christine Renee
- Future Blondes
- BOAN
- Millennial Grave
- Wrestlers
- Children of Pop
- B L A C K I E
- Hearts of Animals
- Josiah Gabriel
- FLCON FCKER
- The Vanity
- Light Wheel
- Jerk
- Bart Black
- Prismo
- DJ Fredster
Visual and computational art17 listed
- Casey Reas
- Zach Lieberman
- School for Poetic Computation
- Refik Anadol
- Markus Heckmann
- Mark Eats
- Kamil Nawratil
- NONOTAK
- Gabriel Pulecio
- Vincent Houzé + AV&C
- Masomenos
- David Cihelna & Gene Han
- Mathew Dryhurst
- Alex Czetwertynski
- Work-Order
- Night Moves
- Neil Ebbflo
Reception
How it was covered at the time
Free Press Houston / Work-Order
The organisers' release stated that thousands of blind presale tickets sold out in under 24 hours, before any lineup was announced. source
Houston Press
Pre-event coverage framed the project as an attempt to build a winter event around digital art rather than a conventional music festival. source
People
Documented roles for this edition
Visual archive
2 sourced images, films and galleries from 2015
Grouped by what each item documents. Creator, source archive and year accompany every item; publisher galleries are linked rather than reproduced.
Making-of (1)
Posters and identity (1)
Historical images and films are reproduced or embedded here for documentary and reference purposes, with the original creator and source archive named on every item. Where a source permits linking rather than copying, its photography is linked and cited instead of reproduced. No image on this page is generated, reconstructed or stock. Where the source archive names no photographer, that is stated rather than a credit inferred.
Provenance
Sources
01 · Free Press Houston / Work-Order (PRWeb) · 2015-10-07 · Organiser-published
Used for: 2015 dates, full music and visual-art rosters, presale demand, producer credit
02 · Houston Press · Independent reporting
Day For Night aims to change the winter festival game
Used for: 2015 venue and site footprint, festival concept, producer credit
03 · JamBase · Third-party compilation
Used for: 2015 dates and venue address
04 · Houstonia · 2018-08 · Independent reporting
Amid allegations, Day For Night festival removes founder
Used for: August 2018 publication of affidavits alleging sexual assault, and the creditors' statement removing the founder from ownership and involvement
05 · Houstonia · 2018-11 · Independent reporting
Day for Night is done (for now, at least)
Used for: November 2018 public foreclosure sale of the entity holding the festival and Free Press Houston; founder's denial of the allegations
06 · Houstonia · 2019-06 · Independent reporting
Used for: Reported production cost, unprofitability across all three editions, a secondary reference to a $20 million impact study, and the outcome of the foreclosure sale
07 · Kiffer Keegan · Organiser-published
Day For Night — design and motion archive
Used for: Festival design, motion work and documentary photography credits
Cite this reference
- Plain
- Live Index, "Day for Night 2015", Live Index, August 24, 2026, https://liveindex.io/projects/day-for-night/2015
- APA
- Live Index (2026, August 24). Day for Night 2015 [Reference guide]. Live Index. https://liveindex.io/projects/day-for-night/2015
- Chicago
- Live Index. "Day for Night 2015." Live Index, August 24, 2026. https://liveindex.io/projects/day-for-night/2015.
- BibTeX
- @online{projects-day-for-night-2015-2026, author = {{Live Index}}, title = {Day for Night 2015}, organization = {Live Index}, date = {2026-08-24}, url = {https://liveindex.io/projects/day-for-night/2015} }