Blast Phemy 2: A Midweek Music/Media Mashup
Blast Phemy 2: A Midweek Music/Media Mashup
Wednesday March 10, 2010, 8:00 and 10:15 pm
At the Silent Movie Theatre, 611 N Fairfax
Los Angeles Filmforum, Newtown and Cinefamily present
Blast Phemy 2: A Midweek Music/Media Mashup
Featuring Text of Light (including Lee Ranaldo from Sonic Youth, Ulrich Krieger, and Alan Licht); and Parallel with the band Languis
**NOTE THE CHANGE IN PRICE, TIME AND LOCATION**
Join Sonic Youth guitarist Lee Ranaldo, collaborating live with saxophonist Ulrich Krieger and guitarist Alan Licht, as he goes to the blasphemous extreme with live scores to the films of Stan Brakhage and other mid-century American cinema avant-gardists. According to Licht, Text of Light "does not perform soundtracks to the films of Stan Brakhage. Rather, it uses the films as a further element for improvisation, almost as [another] performer. While Brakhage intended for these films to be screened silently as films...[here] they are juxtaposed with the music, in a kind of real-time performance, mixed-media collage." But the evening doesn't stop there! The night also includes a screening of Parallel, an animation tour-de-force by mediamaker Huckleberry Lain, featuring music by Argentinean-born, L.A.-based electronic duo Languis.
Two performances! 8:00 pm and 10:15 pm. $17 general; $13 for Cinefamily, Newtown, and Filmforum members
Advance ticket purchase available through Brown Paper Tickets.
Click here to purchase tickets for 8:00pm.
Click here to purchase tickets for 10:15pm.
Watch a clip of Text of Light:
Watch a clip of Parallel by Huckleberry Lain:
This screening series is supported, in part, by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Arts Commission and the Department of Cultural Affairs, City of Los Angeles.
Additional support is generously provided by the American Cinematheque.
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“[Text of Light] does not perform soundtracks to the films of Stan Brakhage. Rather, it uses the films as a further element for improvisation, almost as [another] performer."
-- Alan Licht
Text of Light performing live
Text of Light