Gordon and Stravinsky Multimedia

In this recording, the La Jolla Symphony under the direction of conductor Steven Schick performs two very different works in one multimedia program.

The first is Gotham, a contemporary work by composer Michael Gordon and its film by Bill Morrison. The second is composer Igor Stravinsky's work with André Gide's text, Persephone.
  

Gordon + Stravinsky - La Jolla Symphony
from University of California Television
Premiere Date: May 2016; 82 minutes

Orchestra: La Jolla Symphony
Conductor: Steven Schick

1. Gotham
Composer: Michael Gordon
Filmmaker: Bill Morrison

The first half offers GOTHAM, a 2004 joint production by filmmaker Bill Morrison and composer Michael Gordon. Using archival footage of New York City, Gotham combines film, projectors, lighting, and the orchestra to create a haunting impression of the city.

2. Persephone
Composer: Igor Stravinsky
Narrator: Alice Teyssier
Tenor: John K. Russell
Chorus: North Coast Singers Caprice Choir

Stravinsky’s opulent PERSEPHONE, which the composer described as a "melodrama," sets a text by André Gide that tells of the descent of the goddess Persephone into the underworld and her return. For this presentation the Symphony is joined by the Lux Boreal Dance Company, a narrator, a tenor soloist, and a children’s choir.

Video of the performances, including the film and the dance troupe are available to stream or download at UCTV (University of California Television) and on their YouTube profile. The film is also available for viewing in three pieces at the official website of filmmaker Bill Morrison.

MUSIC COPYRIGHTS: All Rights Reserved
IMAGE: A still image from Bill Morrison's film
NATIONALITY: USA: California: San Diego
CLASSIFICATIONS: Contemporary Composition; Orchestral
COMPOSERS: Michael Gordon; Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky
WRITER, FILMMAKER: André Gide; Bill Morrison
LANGUAGE: (instrumental); French
FILED UNDER: Digital: Art Music: Recent (Post-Romantic to Contemporary)

New Soundtrack For Historic Silent Film

As posted at the FMA last week:

Battleship Potemkin Revisited
katya-oddio of Oddio Overplay

Members of the international avant-garde collective Apskaft worked together to create a soundtrack for Battleship Potemkin, one of the most important films of all time. The soundtrack is now hosted by the Free Music Archive.

Battleship Potemkin (Russian: Броненосец «Потёмкин», Bronenosets Potyomkin) is a 1925 silent film directed by genius filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein and produced by Mosfilm. It presents a dramatized version of the 1905 mutiny of the crew of the Russian battleship Prince Potemkin against its Tsarist regime officers.

Battleship Potemkin [IMDB] is considered one of the most important silent films and one of the most influential propaganda films. It was named the greatest film of all time at the Brussels World's Fair in 1958. The film continues to be a standard in film courses for Eisenstein's emphasis on montage, his depictions of violence, his stress of intellectual contact, and his treatment of the masses rather than the individual as protagonist.

Each scene of the film was scored by Apskaft artists and can be viewed with the full-length film below and at the Internet Archive. An Apskafters e-magazine also accompanies the release of this soundtrack.




image: Battleship Potemkin 1925 film poster by the Stenberg Brothers (one of the highest price valued film posters of all time)

soundtrack license: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike

This Is Hardcore

A team in the Netherlands made a documentary about hardcore electronic music titled This Is Hardcore. The full-length documentary is available for viewing online. The accompanying soundtrack is also available for free download right now for a remix project. Scroll for details.

This is Hardcore is deep. It hits the soul. In our documentary we will take you on tour with the biggest artists and go to the studio with the finest producers. From the core we will form the future of our scene, together with you.

TiH Album Remix Project
All tracks of the original This is Hardcore album will be made available for you to remix. We will hand over kickdrums and other samples. This is the first time ever that so many professional hardcore artists are making their files public for
anyone to remix.

You have six weeks to make an awesome remix. We will select the best remixes and release them on the official TiH Remix Album. The winning tracks will also be released on Traxtorm or Neophyte Records.

We invite everyone who produces hard electronic music to participate. It doesn’t
matter whether you are a signed or unsigned artist. Everybody is free to show us his or her talent. Together we will work on new music, this is what it’s all about.

What kind of track should it be? Just make sure you can say to yourself: This is
Hardcore! Be original, be creative and push the boundaries! Pick a track and remix the hell out of it.

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