The lights dim, the theater goes black and the screen suddenly lights up, sending the viewer hurtling down a brick tunnel as the sounds of Pink Floyd’s “Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 1” pound through the speakers.At the Louisiana Art and Science Museum, Pink Floyd’s iconic rock opera album “The Wall” comes to life on the museum’s planetarium dome theater every Saturday during September. This year marks the 30th anniversary of the classic album.”Music like Pink Floyd is so good and so groundbreaking,” said Elizabeth Tadie, marketing director at LASM. “It’s what we base our music on today.”The light show is a variety of psychedelic patterns and colors along with computer generated images (CGI) like the iconic marching hammers, an image always associated with Pink Floyd’s original “The Wall” film. Pink Floyd bassist Roger Waters composed most of the album’s lyrics in 1979. According to a 1980 Rolling Stone Magazine interview, Waters wrote the album with his usual theme of the oppression of the music industry in mind.  “I feel like [artists from the Pink Floyd era] became more popular because their lyrics were more from the heart,” said Marie Celeste Robichaux, psychology sophomore. “They speak about situations and things that are really part of being human.”Pink Floyd is well known for its chart-topping album “Wish You Were Here” and the two rock operas “Dark Side of the Moon” and “The Wall.” Both “Dark Side of the Moon” and “The Wall” were often set to laser light shows in the ’70s, which is where LASM got the idea for its showing of the two albums set to CGI graphics and light patterns by Starlight Productions of Utah, said Mike Smail, planetarium    director at LASM.”Back in the ’60s, planetariums were looking for things to do to expand their audience base,” said Smail. “It was about space and the universe during the day, and then the idea of rock laser shows came up. For whatever reason, Pink Floyd have just really been intrinsically bound together with dome light shows.””The Wall” is one of Pink Floyd’s most popular albums. Since its release in 1979,  about 30 million copies have sold. It is Pink Floyd’s second most popular album behind “Dark Side of the Moon,” which has sold around 45 million copies and broke a  Billboard Charts record by staying on the Top 200 for 724 weeks.”If the music is good enough, it’s going to stay around,” Tadie said. “I think that Pink Floyd has done that.”Bands like Pink Floyd and others from the ’70s are still popular with college students today. ”They’re a lot different than most bands now,” said Ferris McDaniel, history freshman. “It’s not just generic music — it’s original. They did unique things that other bands weren’t doing at the time, so they really stood out.”The light show plays every Saturday in September at 8 p.m. Tickets cost $9, and patrons must be in the theater before 8 p.m.—-Contact Emily Slack at [email protected]