In conjunction with Tate modern’s Dalí & FIlm exhibition, this film programme featured the world premiere of live new music scores for 9 strings, piano, percussion, soprano and clockwork toys to a range of classic avant-garde and experimental silent films.
The scores examine new contextual relationships between music, historical experimental film, and art.The concert and screening featured the UK premiere of the recently restored print of Un Chien Andalou…
In conjunction with Tate modern’s Dalí & FIlm exhibition, this film programme featured the world premiere of live new music scores for 9 strings, piano, percussion, soprano and clockwork toys to a range of classic avant-garde and experimental silent films.
The scores examine new contextual relationships between music, historical experimental film, and art.The concert and screening featured the UK premiere of the recently restored print of Un Chien Andalou…
Director: Jonay Ortiz de Urbina
Original music: Sergio López Figueroa
Sound recording and mastering: Tenth Egg, Nick Barron
Music producer: Fernando Ortiz de Urbina
(c) 2007. Jonay Ortiz de Urbina, Sergio Lopez Figueroa and University of Wales, Newport.
“Homeland” tells the adventures of two characters who look for a place to settle. It is a tale of belonging and fitting in of what if you don’t fit. Of what you’re ready to leave behind for the promise…
Un Chien Andalou Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí, France 1929 Clonic Mutations programme. Dali at Tate exhibition. Tate modern, July 2007. Live music for the film Un Chien Andalou.
Dalí and Buñuel wrote Un Chien Andalou in a matter of weeks in early 1929. It was shot in Paris and ready for viewing by June that year. Violent, funny, illogical and dynamic, it proved to be one of the most extraordinary films ever made. Disavowing all traditional ideas…
Clonic Mutations programme. 'Mutantis' 2007 a music score for the film Tusalava. Clonic Mutations programme at the Dali at Tate exhibition. Tate modern, July 2007.
This unique tribal dance animation by New Zealand-born film pioneer Len Lye was influenced by Australian aboriginal art and uses more than 4,400 drawings. The first of Lye’s films to be made during his time spent in the UK. Tusalava was unusual at the time of its premiere, and the combination…
Clonic Mutations programme. Dali at Tate exhibition. Tate modern, July 2007. 'Automatika' live music score for the film El Hotel Electrico.
One of the best known films by Segundo de Chomón, a fascinating Spanish pioneer of animation, special effects and trick films. A couple -performed by the director and his wife Julienne Mathieu- arrive as customers to a hotel where everything works automatically.
The improvised score and theatrical performance…
This video shows one of the events at the launch of Big Bang Lab at the ICA in 2008 as part of the Open Rehearsal weekend and the launch of the Cultural Olympiad.
A photoslide show of the performance by the audience, the Balloon Orchestra. A new form of engagement with silent films with a play-along experience of live music to the siilent film El Hotel Electrico (1904) by Segundo de Chomon.
I am sure he joined us in spirit watching us playing…
Clonic Mutations programme. Dali at Tate exhibition. Tate modern, July 2007. 'Marseamour" live music score for the film L'Etoile de Mer.
A classic surreal film staring Man Ray’s wife Kiki. L’Étoile de mer is based on Robert Desnos’s poem ‘la place de l’étoile’. Desnos and Man Ray shared a view that the starfish ‘inhabited liquid depths as well as heavenly reaches’. Through the use of alchemical and occult symbolism and distorted images, Man Ray sought…
Clonic Mutations programme at the Dali at Tate modern, July 2007. 'Buggy bongie boogie' a music score for the film The strength and agility of insects.
This early film by national history film pioneer F. Percy Smith observes real insects juggling and playing with objects in a binzarre manner. A major success at the time of its premiere, the film serves here as a tribute to Dalí’s fascination with insects in his paintings and films, and his profound…
A group to encourage the production of contemporary silent films with live original music across genres from fiction, animation, short, features and documentaries. If you are looking for new interactions between sound and image beyond the obvious commonplace this is a starting point.
We are asking composers and filmmakers to upload showreels of their work in this genre including cine-concert and performances or individual
A group to encourage the production of contemporary silent films with live original music across genres from fiction, animation, short, features and documentaries. If you are looking for new interactions between sound and image beyond the obvious commonplace this is a starting point.
We are asking composers and filmmakers to upload showreels of their work in this genre including cine-concert and performances or individual finished titles as well as documentaries of the process behind writing and performing music for silent films.
We are looking for composers and filmmkers with a social vision to use their skills for a purpose so get in touch!
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