Special screening featuring a live programme of new music scores created by Sergio López Figueroa to a range of classic avant-garde and experimental silent films commissioned by Tate modern / Dalí exhibition.
“Yes, live music set to film can be a joy”. The Guardian
The scores for nine strings, piano, percussion, soprano and clockwork toys examine new [...]
Live Performance at Tate modern -Dalí exhibition- July 2007, as part of Clonic Mutations programme.
UN CHIEN ANDALOU Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí, France 1929
(from Tate modern programme) 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. [...]
Live Performance at Tate modern -Dalí exhibition- July 2007, as part of Clonic Mutations programme.
EL HOTEL ELECTRICO Segundo de Chomón, Spain/France 1904
(from Tate modern programme)
A couple -performed by the director and his wife Julienne Mathieu- arrive as customers to a hotel where everything works automatically. One of the best known films by Segundo de [...]
Live Performance at Tate modern -Dalí exhibition- July 2007, as part of Clonic Mutations programme.
TUSALAVA Len Lye, UK 1929
(from Tate modern programme) 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 [...]
Live Performance at Tate modern -Dalí exhibition- July 2007, as part of Clonic Mutations programme.
L’ETOILE DE MER Man Ray, France 1928
(from Tate modern programme) 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 [...]
Live Performance at Tate modern -Dalí exhibition- July 2007, as part of Clonic Mutations programme.
A PHANTASY Norman McLaren, Canada 1952
(from Tate modern programme) This is a very special film featuring hand-drawing landscapes inspired by surrealist artists such as Salvador Dalí, Yves Tanguy and René Magritte. It is the only non- silent film in this programme [...]
Live Performance at Tate modern -Dalí exhibition- July 2007, as part of Clonic Mutations programme.
THE STRENGTH AND AGILITY OF INSECTS F. Percy Smith, UK 1911
(from Tate modern´s programme) This early film by national history film pioneer F. Percy Smith observes real insects juggling and playing with objects in a bizarre manner. A major success at [...]
Special screening featuring a live programme of new music scores created by Sergio López Figueroa to a range of classic avant-garde and experimental silent films commissioned by Tate modern / Dalí exhibition.
The scores for nine strings, piano, percussion, soprano and clockwork toys examine new contextual relationships between music, historical experimental film and art. The concert and screening featured the UK premiere of the 2004 restored print of the film Un Chien Andalou (1929). From devising the initial concept, through to composing, production and actual performance, Big Bang Lab created a complete event programme.
The music for Un Chien Andalou was performed live again at the 2008 Berlinale Film Festival as part of Buñuel’s retrospective. Future plans include a live tour in partnership with contemporary classical ensembles across Europe.
Premiere: Clarion Ensemble - Tim Murray, conductor with Maya Sapone, soprano and Kate Ryder, piano
| The strength and agility of insects (1908) | F. Percy Smith | 4’ 13” | |
| A Phantasy (1952) | Norman McLaren | 7′ 34″ | |
| El Hotel eléctrico (1904) | Segundo de Chomón | 7’ 30” | |
| Tusalava (1929) | Len Lye | 9’ 12” | |
| L’Etoile de mer (1928) | Man Ray | 15’ 53” | |
| Un Chien Andalou (1929) | Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí | 22′ 30″ |
Events like this are ultimately worth going to because they create “cinema” out of a bunch of old films. Sure, you can now get restored DVDs of some of the best-known work in the avant-garde canon (which is fine for private study), and you can YouTube many of these clips, too. But sitting at home, watching scratchy black-and-white shorts on your PC or telly doesn’t always make for much of an experience. John L. Walters, The Guardian.
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