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 Live Performance by The Devil Music Ensemble during "The
Cabinet of Dr. Caligari."
One
night only, Thursday April 29th at 7 pm, at Plan 9 on the Corner: From
Boston MA, The Devil Music Ensemble will perform live during a screening of the German
Expressionist Masterpiece, "The
Cabinet of Dr. Caligari."
Formed
in Boston in 1999 by guitarist Brendon Wood, Devil Music Ensemble
explores all facets of music from rock to electronic, orchestral to folk,
and improvisational to incidental. Devil Music Ensemble is both a
rock band and a multi-media tour-de-force, performing both composed and
improvised scores to silent films. While their studio recordings have
garnered the accolades of both the Boston Phoenix and the Village Voice,
their live scoring of classic and modern silent films has gained them an
eclectic following from Boston to Bowling Green.
Employing
standard and modified electric guitars in tandem with lap steel, Brendon
Wood creates a dynamic canvas of sound on which electric violinist Jonah
Rapino and drummer Tim Nylander paint soundscapes alternately serene and
scary. Rapino -member of the acclaimed, New Millenium String Ensemble- also
handles keyboard duties (occasionally alongside Wood), using vintage analog
synthesizers that sound far more modern than their electronic parts. Former
Say ZuZu drummer Tim Nylander brings a machine like precision, garnered
from many years of accompaniment in music theater to the project, laying
down beats that anchor Devil Music Ensemble'c sound safely outside
of the waters of pretentiousness.
With
remarkably flexible compositions that land somewhere between Glenn Branca
and Can "with contrails of Sister Ray, Goran Bregovic, and Maurice
Ravel streaming behind" (Village Voice), Devil Music Ensemble
just finished touring with their live score to Robert Wiene's 1919 film "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" in movie
theaters, museums, performing art centers, and colleges around the country.
"The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" is considered
the most cherished film of German expressionism. As a horror film, it
stands alongside Dreyer's Vampyr and Murnau's Nosferatu for
its stunning visual embodiment of expressionist ideals. Devil Music
Ensemble's score is both beautiful and extremely dynamic, bringing the
characters and the film to life as if for the first time.
All
this for $8 in advance ($10 at the door), tickets at Plan 9 locations in
C'Ville Richmond & Harrisonburg.
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Devil Music Ensemble perform LIVE during