The Arches, February
13th
in the city there
are eight million stories. One of these is 'Pulse', a collaboration
between film-maker Ruth Paxton and Grammy nominated composer Dobrinka
Tabakova. The world premiere of this thirteen-minute impressionistic
noir opens this year's Glasgow Short Film Festival accompanied by
a live rendition of
Tabakova's Gamelan-based score.
“We started off
talking about the idea of the city,” says Paxton of an idea which
developed after the Royal Philharmonic Society, who had commissioned
Paxton's earlier film, 'Rockhaven', suggested the collaboration.
“There was the idea too of this basic human need to connect, and we
talked about someone sending a distress signal.”
'Pulse' eventually
won the RPS a PRS for Music Foundation commission.
With the film's
Glasgow screening preceded by a selection of short works by Tabakova,
music and image are as inseparable as they were in Paxton's film,
'Nevada', which was shown at GSFF 2013 with a live score played by
nouveau-folk trio, Lau.
“The fact that
Dobrinka and I developed it together will make it a richer thing to
watch,” says Paxton, “and hearing the music played live will
definitely enrich the experience.”
MUSIC AT GLASGOW SHORT FILM FESTIVAL
MUSIC AT GLASGOW SHORT FILM FESTIVAL
MUSIC & FILM
DISCUSSIONS
CCA, February 14th,
11am
Three sessions on
the relationship between sound and image opens with makers of
'Pulse', Ruth Paxton and Dobrinka Tabakova. Former Y'All Is Fantasy
Island vocalist Adam Stafford follows alongside sound designer Marcin
Knyziak and composer Daniel Padden, who worked on Stafford's second
film, No Hope For Men Below. Sam Firth and composer Fraya Thomsen end
with a look at Stay The Same, in which Firth filmed herself in the
same spot every day for a year.
NITEFLIGHTS
Fleming House Car
Park, Renfrew Street, February 14th, 10.30pm
Artist and performer
Michelle Hannah's live art multi-media nightclub inspired by The
Walker Brothers 1978 swansong, Nite Flights, moves into a disused
underground car park, where a dozen artists, including Douglas
Morland and Linder Sterling, making her first visit to Glasgow since
performing her thirteen-hour epic, 'The Darktown Cakewalk, at GI
2010, explore the gifts of sound and vision anew.
ALEX NEILSON SCORES
The Art School,
February 15th, 7pm
Percussionist and
musical polymath Alex Neilson provides live accompaniment to a trio
of films with three very disparate troupes. While saxophone/drums
duo, Death Shanties, accompany Lucy Stein and Shana Moulton's film,
Polventon, vocal harmony ensemble The Crying Lion and artist Oliver
Mezger revisit Orkney-born film-maker Margaret Tait's 1966 short, The
Big Sheep. The grand finale comes with Trembling Bells suitably
raucous accompaniment to Rory Stewart's portrait of legendary boozer,
the Port O'Leith.
ZOVIET FRANCE /
KONX-OM-PAX
The Art School,
February 15th, 10.30pm
It's more than a
decade since Newcastle-sired veteran electronic duo Zoviet France
appeared at Tramway to perform 'The Decriminalisation of Country
Music'. Now in their fourth decade of existence, these contemporaries
of Cabaret Voltaire and Throbbing Gristle blow the dust off their
home-made kit for a bill that also features film, video and analog
synth auteur, Konx-om-Pax, aka Tom Scholefield, as well as a DJ set
from Mark Maxwell of Glasgow's long-standing purveyors of electronic
sounds, Rubadub. At time of writing, attendance by Optimo's JD
Twitch has still to be confirmed.
ends
The List, January 2014
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