Sinemusikalye - Massive New Media Concert!

SINEMUSIKALYE
7PM, 14 March 2008, Friday / Remedios Circle, Malate, Manila

The Cinema Committee of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts presents SINEMUSIKALYE on 14 March, Friday, 7pm in the Remedios Circle, Malate, with a massive new media audio-visual concert curated by Tengal with SABAW Art Projects.

For SINEMUSIKALYE, 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.

A multi-channel projection of videoS 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. The evening will end 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. 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.

To start off the festivities at 7PM, filmmaker John Torres will be screening the three-screen version of his feature film, Years When I was a Child Outside. Previously premiered at the Berlin Forum, in Berlinale international film festival, this will be its Philippine premiere. The film will be accompanied with a live score by the Makiling Ensemble.

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