Movie Night
Lisztomania
4.14.26
7pm - 10pm
Lisztomania
4.14.26
7pm - 10pm
'vienna', a new release on Small Forms Records w FIM Basel Concert March 2023 Hypersurface is a NYC-based trio consisting of Drew Wesely (guitar/objects), Lester St. Louis (cello), and Carlo Costa (percussion). Hypersurface explores timbral, durational, and formal aspects of improvisation with lenses focused on their instruments' acoustic particularities alongside employing tiles, railroad spikes, ceramic plates and other objects to expand them further. In coming together Carlo, Drew and Lester wanted to create a music that puts emphasis on the erasure of sonic boundaries, embracing the liminal spaces between their instruments, their sounds and the greater sonic environment. Timbre, gesture, duration, particles, layers… a real time tapestry of its own. The trio has given performances throughout the United States and Europe in a diversity of concert settings from clubs to large halls and galleries; with each utilizing the acoustics to follow potent musical pathways. Kamau Amu Patton is an interdisciplinary artist and educator whose work examines history and culture through engagement with archives, documents, stories, and sites. Patton’s projects are dialogic and take form as expanded field conversations. http://kamaupatton.com
For this edition of movie night, we plunge into the surreal world of visionary filmmaker Ken Russell with his bonkers biopic, Lisztomania. Franz Liszt (played by Roger Daltry) can rightly be described as the world's first pop star. Before Beatlemania, there was Lisztomania, a term coined to describe the unprecedented levels of worship and fandom heaped onto Hungarian composer Franz Liszt.. A hugely talented composer and performer who left audiences gasping for air after his standing-room-only performances, Liszt's showmanship and bravado is only matched by the outlandish Russell, working overtime to outdo his own Tommy (both released in 1975).
As Roger Ebert wrote:
Ken Russell’s “Lisztomania” has little, if anything, to do with the life and music of Franz Liszt – or of Wagner, Beethoven, Chopin and the other unfortunates it tramples on the way to its manic conclusion. No, this isn’t a biography. It’s a berserk exercise of demented genius...Most people will probably despise it.
We don't. Come for the synth-heavy Original Score from prog-rock legend Rick Wakeman, stay for Ringo's cameo as the Pope.
Dinner will be served.
As Roger Ebert wrote:
Ken Russell’s “Lisztomania” has little, if anything, to do with the life and music of Franz Liszt – or of Wagner, Beethoven, Chopin and the other unfortunates it tramples on the way to its manic conclusion. No, this isn’t a biography. It’s a berserk exercise of demented genius...Most people will probably despise it.
We don't. Come for the synth-heavy Original Score from prog-rock legend Rick Wakeman, stay for Ringo's cameo as the Pope.
Dinner will be served.