Original Soundtrack

“The beauty of it though, was that as soon as I tuned out, I in fact, tuned in. When I stopped any focus on the performance I entered into some sort of light hypnosis. There was a kind of magnificence to it, there’s no doubt. The 50-minute piece was anything but boring–more like a peaceful, unstructured audiovisual meditation. It was just so nice to absorb something without having to do any work, and to find the subtle musical wonders in fact quietly, harmlessly, mystically, working me over… Its essence wasn’t defined by experimentation, the avant-garde or artistic snobbery: the piece was all about abandoning expectations, pretensions and artificiality. Because the magic of Davis’s performance was that it really did make you think. Or not.” NY PRESS

Original Soundtrack is a live performance of 20 television sets and DVD players. On each DVD player is a different, commercially available movie left at its “menu” stage. The DVDs all feature endlessly looping musical cues (this is a design feature found on approximately 50% of all DVDs).

Performed using a customized mixer, loops are combined and stacked, resulting in a slightly unstable but scored 90-minute performance that moves from psyched out strings to destroyed funk and beyond.

Featuring selections from: Carter Burwell, Jerry Goldsmith, Bernard Hermann, David Holmes, Goblin, Cliff Martinez, Ennio Morricone, Giorgio Moroder, Walter Murch, Popol Vuh, Howard Shore and others.

Performances

December 3, 2008 at Issue Project Room , Brooklyn, NY **WE NEED TO BORROW YOUR TV! Contact me if you’re in Brooklyn and you can help out!

November 14-15th, 2008 at the Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver.

October 4, 2008. AR Williams Machinery Building, Toronto, Original Soundtrack performance, Nuit Blanche

Downloads

The Toronto Concert here

Limited edition CD

Limited edition CD of the above concert, housed in a die cut gatefold sleeve with gold ink, printed by Punchclock Studios. More info here.

Video from the Toronto recording session