"Decasia"--Grand Symphony of Decay
Posted: Sun Dec 31, 2006 5:28 pm
[quote]This month Decasia, a multimedia symphony and film experience will make its Manhattan debut— right on the Lower East Side...Filmmaker Bill Morrison of Ridge Theater...came across a cash of deteriorated nitrate film and showed it to Michael Gordon, who composed a symphony inspired by it, which Morrison in turn cut the movie to match...The film is now available on DVD, but Decasia Live is a rare and extraordinary event. This January, 55 musicians will fill three tiers of Angel Orensanz Center for the Arts, more than twenty screens will hang on all four sides of the audience, and light and sound and swirls and splotches and decaying images and unique music will fill the cavernous room...The live experience promises to be unmatched. “Two tubas…two contrabassoons,â€