Charlotte Gainsbourg DVD/CD
It’s here, Stage Whisper, the tour documentary and live album of the debauch that occurred circa Fall 2009 thru the end of the noughties. Great fucking band – Bram Inscore, Eric Gardner, Amir Yagmhai, Nicole Morier and myself.
Preview:
Charlotte Gainsbourg – Voyage by charlottegainsbourg
Charlotte Gainsbourg – L'Hôtel Particulier by charlottegainsbourg
Photography
An amateur on all counts but here I share with you my tumblr page for photos. I make no claim of art, just trying to remember what’s happening around me so my grandkids can’t call me a liar.
Some of my photos will be in the bonus iTunes download of Feist’s new album METALS, coming October 4th as well as Charlotte Gainsbourg’s “Stage Whisper”, a live DVD/CD coming out November 8th featuring your narrator on keyboards.
Photos from SUNRISE film score 06/15
Brian LeBarton and Joey Waronker at The Silent Theater performing a score to F.W. Murnau’s SUNRISE. Thank you to everyone for making it out and for making out. Touch.
Live Score to SUNRISE 06/15
On June 15th do attend (or perish) a live silent film score to F.W. Murnau’s SUNRISE with myself and Drum Lord Joey Waronker. I think it’s $100 to get in, or $10.
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 |
Live Film Score Dec. 22nd, “Nanook Of The North”
12/22 @ 8:00pm /
Winter Solstice Show @ The Silent Theater
(Feat. “Nanook Of The North” W/ Live Score By Brian LeBarton!)
Multi-instrumentalist and electronic music whiz Brian LeBarton, who for years has been the close collaborative partner of one Beck Hansen, and who recently co-composed/recorded the music of Sex Bob-omb (the fake band in Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World) comes to the Cinefamily to bring his unique aural vision to classic films from the silent era, along with special guest Amir Yaghmai from the band Jogger! The second film in LeBarton’s ongoing series of live scores is Robert Flaherty’s controversial Nanook of the North, which is widely considered to be the world’s first feature-length documentary! Flaherty brought years of experience living amongst the Inuit Eskimos to his portrait of a hunter eking out a calm, placid life amongst some of the harshest landscapes Man has ever encountered. Amongst images of Nanook and his tribe’s daily activities (relevatory stuff to ‘20s audiences from more “tropical” climates), Flaherty also gives us charming, slightly kooky asides, such as the superbly silly moment when Nanook ponders the alien object of a phonograph record. It’s true that much of Nanook’s action was staged for the camera, but its groundbreaking legacy lives on in almost every single doc — despite all protestations of varying “truthfulness” as they blur the lines between vérité and narrative — to follow.
Nanook of the North Dir. Robert Flaherty, 1922, digital presentation, 79 min.
Tickets – $12/free for members
Live Film Score @ Cinefamily next Wednesday!
11/24 @ 8:00pm / SERIES: SILENT WEDNESDAYS
Arsenal
(W/ New Live Score By Brian LeBarton!)
Multi-instrumentalist and electronic music whiz Brian LeBarton, who for years has been the close collaborative partner of one Beck Hansen, and who recently co-composed/recorded the music of Sex Bob-omb (the fake band in Scott Pligrim Vs. The World) comes to the Cinefamily to bring his unique aural vision to classic films from the silent era! Russian silent cinema often channeled the struggles of a perpetually put-upon people through a staggering avant-garde filter, in order to sneak its message past the Party — and Alexander Dovzhenko’s Arsenal stands tall alongside Eisenstein’s Battleship Potempkin and Pudovkin’s Motheras one of the great metaphorical pieces of its era. The first film in Dovzhenko’s “Ukraine Trilogy”,Arsenal charts the incredible upheaval of Russian society as the tumult of WWI gave way to the Russian Revolution in the 1910s, all seen through the eyes of a lowly Ukranian soldier who participates in barricading himself and his fellow troops in a munitions plant, as Kiev falls around him into Bolshevik hands. One can see how Dovzhenko’s time spent in Berlin throughout the ‘20s influenced him greatly, as Arsenal’s German Expressionism-influenced visuals add layers upon layers of beautifully surreal touches to one of the great anti-war films.
Dir. Aleksandr Dovzhenko, 1929, digital presentation, 70 min.
Tickets – $12/free for members
Sex Bob-Omb! Instructional videos
I made these videos a couple years ago to help teach Alison Pill and Michael Cera how to play the drums and bass parts for ‘Sex Bob-Omb‘ as I played them on the recordings for the ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. The World‘ movie score and soundtrack.
Since Beck and I did these in one take, the parts are improvised and I could never actually re-learn what I played. I’m really impressed with all the other videos I’ve seen of people covering the songs but in case anyone needs help, here ya’ go!
What I mostly learned from these videos is what a horrible “drumming” face I have. I really shouldn’t be posting these, I look so confused and uncomfortable. But I must face the music. Bash away.
Thank you to director Edgar Wright for featuring these on his blog www.edgarwrighthere.com The soundtrack is available now from ABKCO Records.
THRESHOLD
GARBAGE TRUCK
SUMMERTIME
