Co-Presented with DOXA Documentary Film Festival: Modulus at the Movies with a screening of Lou Harrison: A World of Music
Date/Time: Nov 7 2016, 6:30 pm to 10:00 pm
Vancouver, Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation CentreCost: $25.00
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Featuring:
Ann Hepper (reyong/pots or horizontal gongs)
Jack Adams (reyong)
Wendy Chen (ponggang/pots)
June Lam (gongs)
Michelle Cormier (ceng-ceng/hand-held cymbals)
Elliot Vaughan (ceng-ceng and viola)
James Whale (ceng-ceng)
Edward MacIlwaine (bagpipe)
Michael O’Neill (bagpipe)
Beverly Dobrinsky (voice – mezzo-soprano)
Fabiana Katz (voice – mezzo-soprano)
Meeting Point: Exhibition Hall at the Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre
End Point & Movie: Studio at the Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre
Witness the first complete procession performance of Michael O’Neill’s Beledrone, an ambitious and exciting project comprised of seven intercultural works. Combining the earthy and ethereal sounds of Balinese gamelan beleganjur drums, bagpipes, gongs, cymbals, viola, and Ukrainian bilij holos singing, the series has been in development for the last five years. The music is rooted in the cultural connection between beleganjur and bagpipes, both prominently used in traditional rituals, also incorporating poetry by Gerry Gilbert.
Modulus at the Movies
Lou Harrison: A World of Music
8pm at the Roundhouse Studio
programme
Beledrone I, II, III, gamelan and bagpipes
Beledrone IV, gamelan, bagpipes, and voices
Beledrone V, gamelan and bagpipes
Beledrone VI, gamelan, bagpipes (with extensions), voices, chorus, stones (ceng-ceng players)
Beledrone VII, gamelan (with extra gongs), bagpipes, voices, chorus, viola (ceng-ceng player), stones
Lou Harrison: A World of Music
a film by Eva Soltes
92 minutes
A lucid portrait of one of the most unconventional and influential composers of the 20th Century. Throughout his life, Lou Harrison (1917-2003) studied and experimented freely with western, eastern and custom-made instruments, embracing artistic playfulness over the classical rules of composition. His unbounded thinking and unbridled experimentation blossomed into the creation of a vast body of work for dance, opera, orchestra and unlikely pairings of chamber instruments. This film offers a rare glimpse into the intimate personal struggles and artistic development of a legendary composer. It is the culmination of more than two decades of research and documentation by filmmaker/music producer Eva Soltes who enjoyed a close relationship with Harrison.
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