Live Score of “Berlin: Symphony Of A Great City”
Few funs shows this month, first one being a live score at my favorite Silent Theater on Fairfax aka CINEFAMILY! More info and ticket link belooowwwww.
4/20 @ 8:00pm
An Evening Of City Symphonies
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Berlin: Symphony Of A Great City
(W/ Live Scores By Brian LeBarton!)
Brian LeBarton returns to the Cinefamily to bring his unique aural vision to classic films from the silent era! For April’s visit, Brian scores a whirlwind tour of the 1920s “city symphony”, that poetic avant-garde genre focusing on the excitement and head-spinning newness of modern urban living. After a program of excerpts from rare and obscure examples of the form, the evening’s main attraction is the greatest city symphony of all: Walter Ruttman’s 1927 masterpiece Berlin: Symphony of a Great City, a vast, restless celebration of the Weimar Republic’s thriving epicenter. Unfolding in five acts, Berlin‘s documentary depictions of work, transportation, relaxation, and nightlife teem with energy and photographic creativity. Ruttman’s graceful editing — which feels like it was accomplished with a glass of wine and a notebook, rather than a flatbed and a pair of scissors — reveals endless layers of wide-eyed passion for what was its decade’s most fascinating hubs of human activity. It’s as much as a love song as a symphony.
Watch a clip of Berlin’s 1920s rush hour from “Berlin: Symphony Of A Great City”!
Performance at USC Arts Center
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I’m reuniting with my friends D-Fuse, the visual masterminds behind Beck’s “Guero” tour for a 3D music & video performance at USC. Fu**ed up sounds galore, etc. Come some, come all.
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| Friday, April 22, 2011, 7:30 – 11:00 p.m. School of Cinematic Arts Complex |
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| Admission is free. A lively panel discussion will follow the performance. |
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| Experience a live visual music sensation on April 22nd at the University of Southern California! The School of Cinematic Arts Complex will be taken over and transformed by Rhythms and Visions: Expanded and Live!, a spectacular outdoor live-cinema event merging animation and visual media with live acoustic and electronic music. | ||
| Exciting and innovative UK audio-visual collective D-Fuse and Los Angeles artist Scott Pagano will perform with live acoustic and electronic music performed by notable musicians Brian King, Trifonic, Brian LeBarton and MB Gordy. These cutting-edge performances will span animation, experimental documentary and abstract visual music. The cinema complex will come alive with large animation and 3-D stereoscopic projections by faculty and students. 3-D glasses will be provided. |
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Related Event: Saturday, April 23, 2011
Come to a day of hands-on VJ Workshops with D-Fuse and members of the LA-VA Los Angeles Video Artists. Learn about Visual Music, the best VJ software and more. Presented by Visions and Voices: The USC Arts and Humanities Initiative. Organized by Mike Patterson (Animation), Candace Reckinger (Animation), Eric Hanson (Animation), Brian King (Scoring for Motion Pictures and Television) and Perry Hoberman (Cinematic Arts). |
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| For more information, please visit our website or contact us at visionsandvoices@usc.edu or (213) 740-0483. www.usc.edu/visionsandvoices www.tinyurl.com/eyemusic |
Generator Radio playlist – April 1st 2011
Happy April Fool’s! Here is tonight’s playlist. Generator Radio broadcasts every Friday night at 7pm PST/10pm/EST and re-broadcasts every Saturday at 4pm PST/7pm EST. Tune in LIVE at www.marfapublicradio.org and at 93.5 KRTS all over West Texas.
- Peter Bjorn And John – Breaker Breaker
- Matthew Dear – You Put A Smell On Me (Breakbot Remix)
- The Chimes – Zindy Lou
- Ja Prawn – Gearworm
- MC5 – Poison
- Bruce Haack – National Anthem To the Moon
- Mutsumi – Jealous Kids
- Los Lobos – Anselma
- Liquid Liquid – Bell Head
- The Residents – The Electrocutioner
- Charles MIngus – Boogie Stop Shuffle
- Witch – Introduction
- Charles Lloyd – Sorcery [Live At Monterey]
- Charlotte Gainsbourg – AF607105 (Live Instrumental Bootleg)
Here’s a visual blast from one of tonight’s flagellations:
