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Phil Minton
A 100 strong Feral Choir of people who’ve never improvised with their voices before, conducted by composer Phil Minton.
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A 100 strong Feral Choir of people who’ve never improvised with their voices before, conducted by composer Phil Minton.
Birthed from the collective stagger in global consciousness of the late 50’s and 60’s, this programme celebrates epochal, groundbreaking films that all address sound in their own way and that have opened pathways to experimentation.
“I am truly without faith. In a media marketplace that demands soulness, I can only offer soulnessless.”
Using violin and cello the duo map out a twilight sonic world that seems to tread the faultlines between improvisation and composition.
Finnish duo Grönlund Nisunen are known for their extraordinary work fusing incredible sounds with stunning objects in large scale sculptural installations.
Trio vocal performance of a score by Achim Wollscheid with Aileen Campbell, Junko and Dylan Nyoukis.
Christian Bök‘s work spans thrillingly conceptual poetry to body-shaking vocal performances.
Performances at Anthology Film Archives NY by Jandek, Loren Mazzacane Connors & Alan Licht, and MV & EE.
Formed as a means to realise William Bennett’s goal of “a sound that could bludgeon an audience into submission”
Laser beam sine tones used to draw delicate, abstract patterns by vibrating charcoal, placed atop of a great strip of paper running through the gallery; beautiful, fragile sound-created autonomous drawing.
Poetry of raw fearless truth and the realest crip insight fully embedded in absolute lyrical lounge.
A fully transcribed, described, and open-captioned film screening that’s nothing short of their actual open heart.