[NewMusicEvents] last minute reminder -- NOISY PEOPLE screening -- Sat may26 berkeley

[Tim Perkis]

++++++ LAST MINUTE REMINDER ++++++++++++++++++++++++++

SAT May 26, 8pm:  NOISY PEOPLE at the Berkeley Arts Festival, 2323
Shattuck Ave, btw Durant and Bancroft, Berkeley CA.

more info: http://www.noisypeople.com

If you were shut out of its sold-out premiere at the Pacific Film
Archive in April, or just couldn't make it for some other reason,
here's another chance to see my feature length video documentary
on a group of unusual sound artists and musicians from the
San Francisco improvisational music community. (Or maybe you just
want to see it again!)

I followed my subjects for a year, filming them in their homes and
studios, rehearsals and performances. What emerges is a set of funny
and lively portraits of some very creative and quirky people -- and a
portrait of a way of life outside the commercial musical mainstream of
America.

FEATURING: George Cremaschi, Tom Djll, Greg Goodman, Phillip
Greenlief, Cheryl Leonard, Dan Plonsey, Gino Robair, Damon Smith. Also
includes dozens of other creative musicians from the improvisational
sound community, including Anthony Braxton, Fred Frith and Jack
Wright.

I'll be there to talk about the scene, the film, creative communities,
participatory culture, Gino's shotgun cymbal and whatever else
everyone wants to talk about.

DVD's of the film will also be for sale -- and they're always 
available at the NOISY PEOPLE website
   http://www.noisypeople.com 
which also has the trailer, audio clips,
musician bios, etc etc

__________________________________________
What people are saying about Noisy People:

    Made by an insider in this scene of outsiders, Noisy People
beautifully captures one of the most vibrant and unusual music
communities in America. Through his series of affectionate portraits,
Tim Perkis illuminates the glimmers and glitches of true invention.
This film belongs in the canon of brilliant movies about artistic
innovation. Funny, profound, and deeply inspiring.

       -- Beth Lisick, author of Everybody Into the Pool

    What a trip! ...a curiously refreshing musical tour through one of
the East Bay's least understood (but hella deep) pools of creativity.

                                 -- Kelly Vance, East Bay Express

    [A] vivid portrayal of the San Francisco Bay Area's improvised
music scene. The movie delivers its message through interviews,
concert performances, revealing footage of the musicians' living
spaces and backyards and evocative shots of less-than-fashionable Bay
Area neighborhoods.... The appearances of certain high-profile
musicians, including saxophonist Anthony Braxton and guitarist Fred
Frith, indicate how the local improv scene's borders blur both
geographically and artistically.... The Bay Area improv scene may be a
serially homeless and occasionally ephemeral entity, but thanks to
Perkis, it now has a good, permanent, slice-of-life document of its
quirky creativity.... Noisy People nails a niche that, as Down Beat used
to say, deserves wider attention.

                                 --Derk Richardson, SF Gate

hope to see you there -- drop me a line for more information

Tim

tim at noisypeople.com



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