[NewMusicEvents] The Reel Change Film with Live music Series Reel #1 From DADA to MAYA - DADA

[dmichalak]

Hello,

I'm a local filmmaker/musician recording for the Edgetone label. I just wanted to make sure you received this press release for this great event.

Thanks so much,

David





FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE



 

The Reel Change Film with Live music Series 

Reel #1 From DADA to MAYA - DADA films of the 1920's plus Maya Deren Films from the 1940s featuring live music by REEL CHANGE.

 

Who:                        REEL CHANGE with DADA & Maya Deren Films

 

Where:                     Meridian Gallery, 535 Powell St., San Francisco, CA

When:                      Saturday, February 21, 2009, 8:00 P.M.

Cost:                       $10.00, students $5.

For reservations:      (415) 826-2765 or e-mail dmichalak at sbcglobal.net


THE PERFORMANCE
Reel #1 of this series includes the seldom seen films: Hans Richter's - Ghost Before Breakfast, Man Ray's - Return To Reason, Maya Deren's - Meshes In The Afternoon and others TBA featuring live soundtracks by Reel Change. The group has invited three special guest musicians for this event expanding from a trio to a sextet for this mysterious and haunting musical journey.

 

Dada 

is considered to be the groundwork for abstract art and sound poetry, a starting point for performance art, a prelude to post modernism, an influence on pop art, a celebration of anti-art to be later embraced for anarcho-political uses in the 1960s and the movement that lay the foundation for Surrealism.

 

Maya Deren 

was a dancer, choreographer, poet, writer and photographer. In the cinema she was a director, writer, cinematographer, editor, performer, entrepreneur and pioneer in experimental filmmaking in the United States. Like Jean-Luc Godard and Sergei Eisenstein, Maya Deren was both a film theorist and a filmmaker. Unlike these luminaries, Deren's writing remains relatively obscure in film theory and her films are rarely screened outside of experimental or feminist film courses.

 

Reel Change

was started by filmmaker/musician David Michalak and Andrew Voigt to perform live soundtracks for David's Eye-Full Films and other experimental works. They have performed at festivals and showcases throughout the Bay Area and are celebrating their 10 year anniversary with a series of film shows featuring their live soundtracks.  


Reel Change is:

 

David Michalak - lap steel, percussion

Andrew Voigt - winds

Tom Nunn - inventions

 

And guests:

 

Doug Carroll - cello

Leif Shackelford - viola

Karen Stackpole - gongs, percussion

 

 

David Michalak

plays a Fender lap steel guitar and an assortment of odd percussion instruments. While he is more commonly known as a filmmaker (50 films with original soundtracks since 1971), the visual art side of him seeps inherently into his performances and compositions characterized by shimmering passages, abstract snapshots and haunting representations of natural elements. Besides Reel Change, David plays in his instrumental ensembles Doctor Bob and Ghost In The House.

 

Andrew Voigt

is one of the founding members of the highly acclaimed Rova Saxophone Quartet. His monthly showcase, Studio For (Experimental Arts) featured his compositions for Dance and Theater and included: J.A. Deanne, Duck Baker, Morgan Guberman, Aurora, Gino Robair and many others. He currently plays with The Saturday Night Band (on Wednesday) and is working on a new CD with Reel Change .

 

Tom Nunn

has designed, built and performed with original musical instruments since 1975. His instruments typically utilize commonly available materials, are sculptural in appearance, utilize contact microphones for amplification, and are designed specifically for improvisation with elements of ambiguity, unpredictability and nonlinearity. In addition to the more than 50 instruments he has made, Tom has performed extensively throughout the San Francisco Bay Area over the last 20 years, and in Canada and Europe. 
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