Sounding Off: Moving Images and Music
April 11, 2007 - April 25, 2007
Live music in the PFA Theater is nothing new. But each of the three programs in Sounding Off delivers its off-screen inspiration in a different way. Jean Vigo's rebellious Zero for Conduct will find itself the object of another uprising with a barrage of music thrown by student DJs from UC Berkeley. Marcin Ramocki and Justin Strawhand's 8 Bit, a raving report about the demimonde of game hackers and chip tuners, will be complemented by Xik, a sound artist who modulates his music through Nintendo ES. And Tim Perkis's Noisy People, sonic sketches of eight aurally fixated artists, practices what its preaches with an ensemble of manic musicians in a post-screening jam.
Steve Seid
Video Curator
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
8:00 p.m. Zero for Conduct
Live Performance by UC Berkeley Student DJs. Enfant terrible Jean Vigo's lyric, anarchic account of rebellion in a boarding school meets its match in young DJs' mixes. With Vigo's Taris, accompanied by the UC Jazz Ambassadorial Quintet.
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
8:00 p.m. 8 Bit
Joe McKay and Xik in Performance. Marcin Ramocki and Justin Strawhand's raving report about the demimonde of game hackers and chip tuners is complemented by the Nintendo-modulated sounds of Xik.
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
8:00 p.m. Noisy People
Tim Perkis in Person, with Guest Performers. Perkis's documentary offers sonic sketches of aurally fixated artists George Cremaschi, Tom Djll, Greg Goodman, Phillip Greenlief, Cheryl Leonard, Dan Plonsey, Gino Robair, and Damon Smith. A post-screening jam will practice what the film preaches.
Special thanks to the BAM/PFA Student Committee, Kylan Schroeder and the UC Jazz Ambassadorial Quintet, Xik, Joe McKay, and Tim Perkis and friends.
