Stalled at Universal – Opaque
Opaque
Glasgow. Low-end drone guitarage army in praise of the open chord.
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Glasgow. Low-end drone guitarage army in praise of the open chord.
Paul Sharits one of the great experimental, sometimes called structuralist / materialist, filmmakers of the 20th Century.
A preposterously heavy, eye of the storm musical tug of war, in which two drummers, electronics and electric guitar fall over each other in a droning crush.
Could they be one of the most ferocious live noise acts around, or a necessary and ludicrous parody of ferocious noise acts? Could they be both?
A dismantled, performed film, where a narrator pieces together the sounds, images and storytelling of a documentary about Hurricane Katrina before a live audience.
Is it possible to dance our way out of the hardened stances and identity prisons we are locked in?
A specially commissioned performance for organ. “The course of the stars were to be put to sound.”
Arrive, get settled, be hosted and meet-up in IRL and URL.
Light Music is a dizzying celebration of the pivotal nature of sound in film; a direct and powerful transcription of film as sound.
Somewhere between performance, stripped down theatre and an intense kind of public learning or maybe even a public hearing.
A film performance about Guy then, and Guy now, as a metaphor for the passing of time, which of course all film is inherently about.
Free jazz pianist John Blum with an everywhere-at-once presence in duo with Jackson Krall, incendiary free jazz drummer and sound sculptor