Press release for ICA event

Press release for ICA/Music to silent film event: Delta Saxophone Quartet plays at the ICA, London

28th September 2008

Live Original Music set to silent film. Free workshop event run by Sergio Lopez

Free: booking details below:
Price:
Free; booking deadline 26th September, 5pm. You need to book separately to attend the workshop or the performance by email on a first come first served basis workshop@bigbang-lab.com (name, email, instrument)performance@bigbang-lab.com (name, email). Contact number for more information: +44 (0)20 7930 0493.

INVITATION TO A JOURNEY, A NEW EXPERIENCE OF CINEMA: Composing music to bring collective memories alive using film archives. LIVE SOUNDTRACK WORKSHOP: Have you ever performed live for a silent film? Big Bang Lab’s energetic musicians will be leading two workshops to produce new musical pieces. Bring your acoustic instrument or your voice to create and perform together live original compositions for silent films. First you will join forces with Elders Voice Community Choir to create a choral piece to a contemporary digital film. In the second workshop we will create a new instrumental piece for Unseen Voices, a film created by young students using archive footage from London 1940´s newsreels (www.unseenvoices.org). LIVE PERFORMANCE: We invite you to participate in a live musical chat show in a relaxed environment. Rikki Tarascas will introduce different sides of the world of new music for silent films in conjunction with the outstanding Delta Saxophone Quartet which will performing for the film L’invitation au voyage by Germain Dulac. We will be screening the iconic ‘Un Chien Andalou’ with a new recorded award winning score by Sergio López Figueroa produced for the Dalí Exhibition at Tate Modern. This eclectic programme of short silent films with live music includes early Tom & Jerry 1930´s cartoons, a contemporary animation with a prepared piano and a hilarious balloon orchestra performance for a comedy film fantasy made in 1904! You will get an insight into the issues around new music for silent films and the process of creating films re-using digitized archives. Big Bang Lab production in partnership with Lounge Event Co.

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