Artists' Television Access
992 Valencia Street @21st SF
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AN IMPROVISED MOVIE is a live performance collaboration with poet Steve Benson, narrating; filmmaker Konrad Steiner projecting video samples, and musicians Jon Raskin (reeds), Liz Allbee (horns), Kanoko Nishi (koto), Gino Robair (electronics and percussion), and John Shiurba (guitar) providing music and sounds.

The performance will last about 40 minutes. The musicians and poet will create an improvised soundtrack responding on the spot to the video clips of movies from the 1930s-60s, projected as a continuous film with shifting scenes and characters, awaiting interpretation. This is not a VJ style projection of visual music, nor is it a typical scripted neo-benshi style narration.

The audio will be completely improvised.

Preceding the performance is the world premiere of a short video LOVE BEFORE BREAKFAST by Mac McGinnes and Konrad Steiner. The video is set to a play by poet James Schuyler, read on the soundtrack by Norma Cole, Edith Kramer, David Larsen and Roham Shaikhani.



Cost: $10

Audio samples in which musicians at this event play:

Videos featuring musicians playing at this event