Other Minds, San Francisco's Acclaimed New Music Organization, in Association with KPFA-FM, Proudly Presents Eyes&Ears: The Other Minds Film Festival.Entertainment Editors SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 25, 2002 The weekend blowout of movies and live performances takes place November 8-10, 2002 at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden . Convenient parking available. Tickets for each program are $9. A Festival Pass (good for all ten programs) is $60. Advance tickets at ticketweb.com or day of show at Castro box office. For more information visit www.otherminds.org or call (415)934-8134. OM's premiere festival focuses on three figures in new music: Frank Zappa, DJ Spooky This article is about the musician. For other people named Spooky, see Spooky (disambiguation). DJ Spooky, That Subliminal Kid (born Paul D. Miller , and Percy Grainger Noun 1. Percy Grainger - United States composer (born in Australia) who lived in London and collected English folk songs (1882-1961) George Percy Aldridge Grainger, Grainger, Percy Aldridge Grainger . FRANK ZAPPA: Phase Two-The Big Note, is an eye-popping documentary by Dutch director Frank Scheffer summarizing the composer-guitarist's career. Included are performances by the Ensemble Modern and the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra, with commentary by Zappa himself, Edgar Varese, Pierre Boulez, Captain Beefheart, Ian Underwood, George Duke, Haskell Wexler, and Gail & Dweezil Zappa. BABY SNAKES, Zappa's own film masterpiece, oscillates between a 1979 performance of his band and the outrageous psychedelic clay animation of Bruce Bickford. Art hip-hop composer DJ Spooky (aka Paul Miller) has re-edited and scored segments from BIRTH OF A NATION, D.W. Griffith's 1915 classic silent film about the Reconstruction period of the post-Civil War South. Musical innovator Percy Grainger is the subject of Barrie Gavin's documentary, THE NOBLE SAVAGE. Grainger (1882-1961), a virtuoso pianist and composer displays his fascination with English folk music, "free music," "elastic scoring," and "unusual instruments". The US premiere of Australian filmmaker Peter Duncan's 1999 feature PASSION, exposes challenging details of Percy Grainger's secret life, including his involvement with flagellation flagellation /flag·el·la·tion/ (flaj?e-la´shun) 1. whipping or being whipped to achieve erotic pleasure. 2. exflagellation. 3. the formation or arrangement of flagella on an organism or surface. . Director Peter Duncan will answer questions following the screening. The festival rounds out with: Lar von Trier's 2000 film, DANCER IN THE DARK, starring singer-songwriter Bjork; the 1995 classic THEREMIN ther·e·min n. An electronic instrument played by moving the hands near its two antennas, often used for high tremolo effects. [After Leo Theremin (1896-1993), Russian engineer and inventor. , an intimate, and mysterious portrait of the Russian inventor of the electric synthesizer synthesizer Machine that electronically generates and modifies sounds, frequently with the use of a digital computer, for use in the composition of electronic music and in live performance. ; German filmmaker Michael Meert's BAD BOY OF MUSIC, the story of American modernist composer George Antheil; and WEST COAST STORY: Frontiers of New Music, a 1986 BBC BBC in full British Broadcasting Corp. Publicly financed broadcasting system in Britain. A private company at its founding in 1922, it was replaced by a public corporation under royal charter in 1927. production on minimalist music, which includes rare footage of John Cage, Pauline Oliveras, John Adams and others. Various short films also appear, including such gems as John Coney's 1969 video MUSIC WITH BALLS, a fascinating sound sculpture featuring the music of Terry Riley and artwork of Arlo Acton (all three will be present at the screening); William Farley's IN BETWEEN THE NOTES, takes us to India to discover the roots of the legendary Indian singer, Pandit Pran Nath For the particle physicist, see . Pandit Pran Nath (3 November 1918–13 June 1996) was a Hindustani classical singer and teacher of the Kirana gharana (school), with a successful American career. ; and the haunting images of the Brothers Quay production IN ABSENTIA in absentia (in ab-sensh-ee-ah) adj. or adv. phrase. Latin for "in absence," or more fully, in one's absence. Occasionally a criminal trial is conducted without the defendant being present when he/she walks out or escapes after the trial has begun, since the accused , with the music of Karlheinz Stockhausen. Throughout the festival, directors, performers and scholars will be present to discuss and answer questions, hosted by Other Minds festival Artistic Director Charles Amirkhanian. |
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