Love stories, infidelity and midlife crises are conventional and recurrent themes in cinema, but indie film maker Drake Doremus manages to offer a fresh take on the genre with his new film Breathe In (2013). By using hand-held cameras and letting his leads semi-improvise the dialogue, the director strikes a fragile and …
Hauschka: Elizabeth Bay
Experiment must necessarily be carried on by hitting anything - tin pans, rice bowls, iron pipes -anything we can lay our hands on. Not only hitting, but rubbing, scraping, making sound in every possible way. In short, we must explore the materials of music. John Cage – “Goal: new music, new dance” (1939) in Silence: Lectures …
Hauschka: Morgenrot
Jeff Desom is a young video artist based in Luxembourg who directed the 2008 stunning music video for German pianist Volker Bertelmann’s (a.k.a. Hauschka) "Morgenrot" featuring a burning piano falling from a high rise somewhere in New-York city. Hauschka’s superb slow motion conversation with cellists Insa Schirmer and Donsa …
Zbigniew Preisner feat. Lisa Gerrard: Lament
Diaries of Hope is a new five-movement work for orchestra, choir and soloists by Polish film score composer Zbigniew Preisner which premiered on 8th October 2013 last at the White Stork Synagogue in Wroclaw, Poland. The UK premiere took place in the Barbican Hall in London four days later. The score is entirely based on the …
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Snarky Puppy: Family Dinner – Volume 1
Originally formed in 2004 by graduates of the College of Music from the University of North Texas, Snarky Puppy is an instrumental jazz/funk/R&B/world fusion collective now based in New York and led by bass player and composer Michael League. With a core line up of ten-twelve musicians and three backing vocalists, the …
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Clint Mansell: In Full Bloom
Part-Gothic drama and part-Hitchcockian thriller, Stoker (2013) is a stylish and beautifully choreographed film scripted by Wentworth Miller and directed by South Korean director Park Chan-Wook. After his acclaimed Vengeance trilogy - Sympathy for Mr Vengeance (2002), Oldboy (2003), Lady Vengeance (2005) - and Thirst …