Jack Straw Productions
4261 Roosevelt Way NE
Seattle, WA 98105
FREE
Jack Straw Productions and Washington Composers Forum present Composer Spotlight, a series of talks and performances by composers, musicians, and scholars of new and innovative music every second Wednesday of each month. For more information about Composer Spotlight artists and the series, click here.
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Jack Straw Productions and Washington Composer Forum present
Composer Spotlight:
Curtis Taylor
Abstract Change Pleasure
Wed, February 10th, 7:30pm
Curtis Taylor is a narrative filmmaker. In Seattle he operated the underground theater Vodvil from 1996 to 2006, and under these auspices created original folk operas, cabarets, recitals and sound art installations. His recent work has combined mannered musical languages (murder ballads, sacred choir and opera) with historic stage traditions (ballet, vaudeville and burlesque) to consider themes of art, life and time. He is currently in residency at New City Theater in Seattle, at work on a project that explores flying dreams and suicide.
His talk will feature a screening of two short music films made possible by Jack Straw’s Artist Support Grant (Bachianas No. 5 and Church Weather). He will also present a brief lecture on, variously, the incompatible vocabularies of cinema and opera, the compatible vocabularies of cinema and automobiles, and a mystery in music that cannot be penetrated.
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