Fall Arts Preview
With free food and drink, a performance by NYC-based musician Steve Moore and the Philadelphia premiere of Troy Herion and Alex Tyson’s short film Baroque Suite, this year’s Fall Arts Preview sheds light on what promises to be another exciting season here at IHP.
Please join us for our second-annual Fall Arts Preview, our free season-opening event. In addition to the film and performance, we’ll also take a look at our upcoming season highlights including the return of the Wave Currents series with Bruce McClure, an artist known for his experimental film performances; a series focusing on the under-hailed documentarian Dick Fontaine known for introducing Direct Cinema techniques to the UK in films featuring John Lennon & Yoko Ono, Ornette Coleman, John Cage, Afrika Bambaataa, and a host of artists and cultural icons; the return of Canadian artist Daniel Barrow with his live animation performance Every Time I See Your Picture I Cry; Bruce Conner: The Art of Montage, including all the legendary avant-garde filmmaker’s shorts and a panel discussion; and our Philadelphia Music Project-funded series Sonic Arts Union, a substantial retrospective for the Canadian 1970s group whose pioneering influence can be heard in the fields of contemporary composition, electronic music and noise.
Baroque Suite – Philadelphia premiere
dir. Troy Herion and Alex Tyson, US, 2011, HD, 15 minutes, color
Baroque Suite is a short visual-music piece that invites to audience to “listen to image” or “see sound” in five synesthetic movements. The formal structure is guided by the traditional Baroque Suite: a set of musical movements as exemplified by composers such as J.S. Bach. This Baroque influence also extends to the film’s content; references to idiomatic musical gestures and painting techniques as well as common Baroque subjects/aesthetics are present.
The work is built upon the guiding principle that creative collaboration in visual music must have no boundaries of input between composer and filmmaker. Thus the artists’ process is to conceive and realize images and sounds simultaneously, in a serious attempt to create continuum between media while not sacrificing the most expressive conventions relative to each.
Steve Moore
synthesizers and electronics
NYC-based musician Steve Moore is well-known in a variety of circles. He is one-half of the space rock duo Zombi, known for their mixture of cosmic rock and horror soundtrack elements heard on a number of releases for Philadelphia-area label Relapse Records. Moore’s solo work explores more subtle and intricate pop and ambient electronic elements. Often crouched behind stacks of synthesizers and electronics, he creates work that is grand and cinematic in scope. In addition, he has become a sought-after producer and remixer, working with artists as diverse as Washed Out, Voivod, The Melvins and Sally Shapiro. Steve Moore will perform at MoMA PS1’s Warm Up series this summer alongside Simian Mobile Disco and Detroit house producer Omar S before bringing his music to Philadelphia for the first time since early 2010.
For more information, contact Herb Shellenberger at herbs@ihphilly.org
