SINEMUSIKALYE

Sinemusikalye closes the 2008 Philippine Art Festival festivities on 29 February, Friday, at 8 pm in Remedios Circle, Malate, with a massive new media audio-visual concert curated by Tengal with SABAW Art Projects.

For the Sinemusikalye program, three projectors and three screens will be combined to make an expansive panoramic view; while the country’s best sound artists, electronic musicians, and instrumentalists will perform live music at Remedios Circle, Malate in this never before attempted performance of this scale.

The multi-channel projection of video images and panoramic images by Lyle Sacris and Mark Mijares, will be controlled and manipulated live by video artists, Tad Ermitano and Blums Borres (courtesy of New Media Arts Manila). The main performances will include electronica pioneers Malek Lopez and Caliph 8 scoring Mowelfund animation films in three movements; while Tengal and The Gangan Orchestra (composed of 16 of the best local improvising sound artists, electronic djs and musicians) will be performing Tad Ermitano’s video graphic score with algorithms by Tengal as part of the GANGAN SERIES; and will culminate the evening with a full-orchestral sonic blast combined with the panoramic videos manipulated live by Tad Ermitano. Also performing are seminal new media artists, Elemento and The Children of Cathode Ray who will also be scoring animation films by underground legend, Rox Lee, as well as a film by Tad Ermitano. The new generation of electronic musicians, Moon Fear Moon and Trojan Whores will also perform their unique brand of sound deconstruction alongside video deconstruction by Blums Borres.

Earlier in the evening at 8 pm, filmmaker John Torres will be screening the three-screen version of his feature film, Years When I was My Father’s Child Outside. Previously premiered at the Berlin Forum, in Berlinale international film festival, this will be its Philippine premiere.

Programme:

8:00 pm John Torres’ Years When I was My Father’s Child Outside

9:30 pm Moon Fear Moon

9:45 pm Children of Cathode Ray

10:00 pm Malek Lopez and Caliph 8

10:45 pm Gangan Orchestra (1^st run)

11:00 pm Trojan Whores

11:15 pm Elemento

11:30 pm Gangan Orchestra (Finale)

12 – 3 am Rock party performances c/o Tado and TJ Besa (CommPulse)

INFO ON SABAW:

SABAW is dedicated to promoting and releasing the best in the avant-garde, experimental and electronic music in the Philippines.

SABAW likes to see itself as a platform for all kinds of infomation and communication carried via modern electronic media, whether it be a compact disc, MiniDisc, DVD, internet, video, live PA or a vinyl record release. Our aim is to keep the work undiluted from the artist's vision; and always in print and archived in our internet archives website.

Apart from it's duties as a non-profit, artists-run initiative, SABAW also represents a cross-section of innovative new media artists, interdisciplinary artists, contemporary musician-composers who find it difficult to release their material through more conventional channels.

Founded by Tengal in 2005.