October 11, 2011 Comments Off
INSECT INFIDELITY AND MELANCHOLIC MEDLEY
This Friday night at the Hollywood Theatre, we turn back time to a simpler age of celluloid and sound. As part of the new Organ Grinders series taking place at the Hollywood Theatre this year, Portland instrumental duo Sallo premieres an original soundtrack for some of the strangest film of the silent era: Mest’ kinematograficheskogo operatora or The Cameraman’s Revenge. Made in 1911 by Vladislaw Starewicz, it is one of the first works of stop motion animation. Painstakingly posing dead insects, the Russian filmmaker crafted his story of infidelity in the lives of beetles complete with a grasshopper on a moped and a projectionist diving from a flaming booth.
CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS
WATCH THE TRAILER HERE
ORGAN GRINDERS: The Cameraman’s Revenge
October 14th – 9:30pm
Hollywood Theatre – $12
Also featuring original scores for Starewicz’s short films Nightingale, Frogland and Mascot.
SALLO is a Portland based instrumental duo. A combination of dreamy, dark, and driven instrumentals with playfully subversive song structures, Sallo’s compositions routinely test the boundaries of traditional songwriting. Sallo uses drums and keys, usually treated as mere supports in most of today’s popular music, and makes them the epicenter. Their songs range from melancholic tremors to chaotic crescendos . Sallo has collaborated with a variety of local artists including the Portland Cello Project, The 3rd Floor comedy/theater group, the Curious Comedy Theater and the Castiron Carousel marionette troupe.
www.sallo.bandcamp.com
kinematograficheskogo operatora: Vladislaw’s Childhood passion was entomology. Began his film career in Russia around 1909 making little shorts on insects in and around Moscow. Later educated as an entomologist, he passionately wanted to film two stag beetles fighting, but they didn’t like his camera lights and would not fight. However, the film idea led directly to his animation of insects by stop-motion photography; which in turn gave him the idea for his masterpiece “The Cameraman’s Revenge.”
ORGAN GRINDERS – From under the screen, the sounds of modern groups are paired with movies from a different era, updating the genre of Silent Film accompaniment to the sounds around us today. Organ Grinders revisits the original vision of the Hollywood Theatre, built in 1926 with an orchestra pit and a hydraulically ascending theatre organ.
A note for subscribers:
The new Organ Grinders series is somewhat different from our “mainstage” shows with live Foley and voice acting. If you’d rather not receive e-mails about the Organ Grinders series in this newsletter, simply click the update profile link at the bottom of the email and select “No” under Organ Grinders.
September 26, 2011 Comments Off
As part of the new Organ Grinders series taking place at the Hollywood Theatre this year, Portland instrumental duo Sallo premieres an original soundtrack for some of the strangest celluloid of the silent era: Mest’ kinematograficheskogo operatora or The Cameraman’s Revenge. Made in 1911 by Vladislaw Starewicz, it is one of the first works of stop motion animation. Painstakingly posing dead insects, the Russian filmmaker crafted his story of infidelity in the lives of beetles complete with a grasshopper on a moped and a projectionist diving from a flaming booth.
WATCH THE TRAILER HERE and dig the fight between a dung beetle and a grasshopper
ORGAN GRINDERS: The Cameraman’s Revenge
October 14th – 9:30pm
Hollywood Theatre – $12
CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS
Also featuring original scores for Starewicz’s short films Nightingale, Frogland and Mascot.
ORGAN GRINDERS – From under the screen, the sounds of modern groups are paired with movies from a different era, updating the genre of Silent Film accompaniment to the sounds around us today. Organ Grinders revisits the original vision of the Hollywood Theatre, built in 1926 with an orchestra pit and a hydraulically ascending theatre organ.
SALLO is a Portland based instrumental duo. A combination of dreamy, dark, and driven instrumentals with playfully subversive song structures, Sallo’s compositions routinely test the boundaries of traditional songwriting. Sallo uses drums and keys, usually treated as mere supports in most of today’s popular music, and makes them the epicenter. Their songs range from melancholic tremors to chaotic crescendos . Sallo has collaborated with a variety of local artists including the Portland Cello Project, The 3rd Floor comedy/theater group, the Curious Comedy Theater and the Castiron Carousel marionette troupe.
www.sallo.bandcamp.com
A note for subscribers:
The new Organ Grinders series is somewhat different from our “mainstage” shows with live Foley and voice acting. If you’d rather not receive e-mails about the Organ Grinders series in this newsletter, simply click the update profile link at the bottom of the email and select “No” under Organ Grinders.
September 23, 2011 Comments Off
Next month we’re hosting Sallo as part of our new Silent Film series. Check them out at www.sallo.bandcamp.com and check in for more info about the show this week.
Here’s the poster design for the concert just out today. Yes the film does feature a grasshopper with a movie camera (a real one too mind you), and yes it was made in 1911.
September 12, 2011 Comments Off
ORGAN GRINDERS SERIES PRESENTS BANDS AND SILENT FILMS AT THE HOLLYWOOD THEATRE
From under the screen, the sounds of modern groups are paired with movies from a different era, updating the genre of Silent Film accompaniment to the sounds around us today. In Organ Grinders, every band brings their own sounds and interpretations to the flashing pictures that captivated audiences of the 1920′s.
ORGAN GRINDERS: Underworld (1927)
September 15th, 8pm
Hollywood Theatre
More info at Filmusik.com
All summer long, Filmusik has been working quietly to unlock the secrets of time travel. At long last, we’ve had a breakthrough, and we’re gearing up for our maiden voyage. It would be a shame to keep this precious moment to ourselves, so we’ve hitched a flatbed to our Delorean and piled it high with amps, ace musicians, microbrews and the best popcorn in the city. Our destination? The Hollywood Theatre, circa 1926. There’s a silent film playing, and the pit below the screen is the perfect size for the band we’re bringing along.
On September 15th, join us for the kickoff screening of Organ Grinders, an exciting new concert series that pairs modern Portland bands with silent films from the golden days of the silver screen. Our debut show features Jazz West Multiverse, an innovative ensemble with a passion for scoring silent films. They’ll be performing original music to accompany Underworld, a 1926 film-noir masterpiece so gritty that you can smell the bourbon dripping from the reel, feel the cold steel pressed against the small of your back.
We’ve saved you a seat on the flatbed – all you need to do is hop on!
UNDERWORLD: “Boisterous gangster kingpin Bull Weed rehabilitates his former lawyer from his alcoholic haze, but complications arise when he falls for Weed’s girlfriend.”
ABOUT J.W.M. – Assembled Specifically for for special projects such as live and recorded soundtracks and scores, the Jazz West Multiverse combines the innovative string bass of Jimi “Jazz’ Prescott (founding member of G Love and Special Sauce) and the revolutionary percussion styles of James West.
Coming to ORGAN GRINDERS in October: A live silent film score by Sallo.
